On Thursday, the House select committee investigated the January Capitol riot and put the spotlight on former Vice President Mike Pence.
The third public hearing examined the intense pressure Trump and his allies heaped on Pence to reject electoral votes when he presided over a joint session of Congress. The hearing focused on John Eastman, a lawyer for Trump who was involved in pushing a legal theory that the election was rigged.
Here are the main things that came up.
The congressman said that the vice president came close to some of the pro-Trump rioters.
The lives of the vice president and his family were in danger.
According to a recent court filing by the Department of Justice, a confidential source told the FBI that members of the Proud Boys would have killed Mike Pence.
During the riot, he was moved to a secure location.
The chairman of the committee said at the start of the hearing that the vice president showed "courage" by disobeying Trump.
The vice president was in danger when Trump turned the mob on him.
Several witnesses testified that officials told Trump and Eastman that the legal scheme to overturn the 2020 contest wouldn't work. They continued to pressure the team.
In an interview with the committee, Short said that the vice president told Trump many times that he did not have the power to stop the election.
Miller said he had heard that former White House counsel Pat Cipollone thought the idea was crazy and had confronted the person who thought the same thing.
Miller said that other officials thought the idea was crazy and would tell anyone who would listen.
The panel was told that one day before the Capitol riot, Eastman admitted that his legal theory would be rejected by the Supreme Court.
On the morning of January 6th, Trump had a tense phone call with the Vice President. The witnesses said that he said the vice president was weak. Julia said that Trump's daughter told her that the president had said "the P word".
The committee said that Eastman told Giuliani that he wanted to be added to the pardon list.
If that is still in the works, I should be on the pardon list, according to an email that was shown during the third hearing.
The email was sent after the riot. The White House lawyer Eric Herschmann told Eastman that he would give him the best free legal advice he had ever received.
The president did not grant a pardon. He pleaded the Fifth 100 times.
During his last days in office, Trump pardoned many people.
Four more public hearings will be held in June. Lawmakers want to lay out a plan to subvert the 2020 election.
In the future, the panel will show how Trump tried to get the Justice Department to challenge the election results, how he pushed officials in key states to overturn Biden's victories, and how he led a violent mob to march on the Capitol.
The hearings represent the initial findings from the nearly year-long investigation, and the investigation is still going on, according to committee aides.
The leaders of the committee confirmed on Thursday that they want to speak with the wife of a Supreme Court justice. After reporting on her efforts to challenge the 2020 election results, Ginni Thomas came under intense scrutiny.
The retired federal judge warned in Thursday's hearing that Trump is a clear and present danger to American democracy, which was gravely threatened on January 6.
Tuesday is when the next hearing is scheduled. There is an hour and a half later.
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