Liz Cheney: Pence Is a ‘Hero’ — We Look Forward to His Cooperation with January 6 Probe

[Right_in_Virginia]

Liz Cheney: Pence Is a ‘Hero’ — We Look Forward to His Cooperation with January 6 Probe
Breitbart, Jan 6, 2022

Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY), the vice-chair of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot, said Thursday on NBC’s “The Today Show” that former Vice President Mike Pence was a “hero” for his role in certifying the 2020 presidential election at the January 6, 2021 joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes.

Host Savannah Guthrie asked, “How does former Vice President Pence fit into this case? Are you willing to subpoena him to get his testimony? Do you think he’ll cooperate?”

Cheney said, “You know, former Vice President Pence was a hero on January 6th. He refused the pressure of the former president. He did his duty, and the nation should be very grateful for the actions that he took that day.”

“We look forward to continuing the cooperation that we’ve had with members of the former vice president’s team and look forward as well to his cooperation,” she continued.

Guthrie asked, “Is the former president, President Trump, in a better position today, legally, politically, rhetorically, than he was a year ago, to subvert a U.S. election?”

Cheney said, “We will not allow him to subvert a U.S. election. He is certainly continuing his efforts in that regard.”


https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/01/06/liz-cheney-pence-is-a-hero-we-look-forward-to-his-cooperation-with-january-6-probe/

[Right_in_Virginia]

How badly do Pence and Cheney want a civil war?

[Smokin Joe]

How badly do Pence and Cheney want a civil war?

Makes you wonder what's in their investment portfolios...

[mountaineer]

Cheney said, “We will not allow him to subvert a U.S. election. He is certainly continuing his efforts in that regard.”

How, exactly, is he trying to subvert what happened in the past?

[Right_in_Virginia]

Scoop: Mike Pence’s team helping Jan. 6 committee
Yahoo News, Jan 5, 2022, Axios

People in and around former Vice President Mike Pence's office have been particularly cooperative as the Jan. 6 select committee focuses on what former President Trump was doing during the more than three hours the Capitol was under attack, sources familiar with the testimony tell Axios.

Why it matters: At the one-year mark of the insurrection, the committee is piecing together a definitive timeline of how Trump resisted pleas from his own advisers, allies, family members and lawmakers to halt the violence down Pennsylvania Avenue.

The committee is ramping up its closed-door work with the goal of holding public hearings as early as this spring.

Some Pence-world witnesses have testified without a subpoena, according to one source with direct knowledge of the closed-door hearings.

Both Pence's former chief of staff Marc Short, and former press secretary Alyssa Farah, who later served as White House communications director, are among those cooperating with the committee.

Keith Kellogg also has given a deposition.

One source familiar with their involvement said Short, who was subpoenaed by the committee, would not have cooperated without the approval of Pence.

What we're hearing: Some of the most helpful information has come from second- and third-tier administration staff who were not directly involved but were at the White House on Jan. 6 and had access to top administration officials, sources tell Axios.

They’ve been integral to helping piece together exactly what happened that day, one committee aide said.

Many of those officials met solely with the committee's Republican members, Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), two sources with direct knowledge said.

Some also have testified together with their former colleagues.

What they're saying: Farah, who spoke with the committee on several occasions last year, told Axios:

"From the two I was in, you could see how much information they already had.

"Those who are refusing to cooperate likely are doing so out of complete fealty to Donald Trump and not wanting to piss him off.

"But, secondarily, because they're realizing the committee has quite a bit more information than they realized. And their involvement is known to a much greater degree than they realized."

The committee wants to tell the full story of Trump's actions, interactions and refusals to act during a 187-minute timeframe between calling his allies to march to the Capitol and telling them to go home. The period was uniquely documented by The Washington Post.

It's also investigating the "procedural coup," as a second committee source put it, that began on Election Night 2020 to sow falsities about the integrity of the election results.

A  concurrent focus is the players who helped plan Trump's "Save America" rally on the National Mall and any direct involvement from Trump officials in the insurrection itself.

Between the lines: The committee sees the open hearings as a pivotal moment in their investigation and a massive opportunity to sway public opinion.

What's next: The committee also met privately on Wednesday night with Stephanie Grisham, who was then-first lady Melania Trump's chief of staff and previously White House press secretary.


https://www.yahoo.com/now/mike-pence-team-helping-jan-013130042.html

[Right_in_Virginia]

[Kamaji]

Pence is a coward.

[libertybele]

Like they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.  I'd say Pence is not only a RINO, but in my books a traitor, and no, I don't want to argue back and forth as to whether or not he is a traitor.  IMO he is a traitor period and nothing is going to change my mind.

[Kamaji]

Like they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.  I'd say Pence is not only a RINO, but in my books a traitor, and no, I don't want to argue back and forth as to whether or not he is a traitor.  IMO he is a traitor period and nothing is going to change my mind.

He's certainly a turncoat.

[libertybele]

He's certainly a turncoat.

There was always something about Pence I didn't like and now I understand why.

[Ghost Bear]

Pence isn't a coward, and he isn't a turncoat. He's an insider, and he always was. Insiders will say anything in public to make themselves accepted by the gullible, but their only real loyalty is to themselves and their own group. The group that the little folks aren't a part of, and never will be a part of.

[Hoodat]

Cheney said, “We will not allow him to subvert a U.S. election. He is certainly continuing his efforts in that regard.”

Yet you had no problem letting Democrats subvert a US election.   Go figure.

[mountaineer]

Ben Siegel
@bensiegel
One by one, Democrats are coming over to introduce themselves to former VP Dick Cheney and shake his hand.
There aren’t any GOP House members on the floor.
11:50 AM · Jan 6, 2022·


Yossi Gestetner
@YossiGestetner
Replying to @bensiegel
Dems shaking the hands of someone whom they claimed is a war criminal who stole the 2000 elections and who pushed for war to help Halliburton.
This was a mere 15-20 years ago.
So much for @RepLizCheney’s bold pronouncements on how history will judge GOP regarding Trump/Jan 6.
12:58 PM · Jan 6, 2022·

[dfwgator]

Ben Siegel
@bensiegel
One by one, Democrats are coming over to introduce themselves to former VP Dick Cheney and shake his hand.
There aren’t any GOP House members on the floor.
11:50 AM · Jan 6, 2022·


Yossi Gestetner
@YossiGestetner
Replying to @bensiegel
Dems shaking the hands of someone whom they claimed is a war criminal who stole the 2000 elections and who pushed for war to help Halliburton.
This was a mere 15-20 years ago.
So much for @RepLizCheney’s bold pronouncements on how history will judge GOP regarding Trump/Jan 6.
12:58 PM · Jan 6, 2022·

Remember that Eminem video that came out back in 2004, before the election, the irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife:

The original video concluded with a message to vote in the election, but a second version of the videoclip was released after the 2004 presidential election, in which the crowd is not bursting in to register to vote but rather entering the United States Capitol during Bush's State of the Union Address. In this version, they then proceed to make their demands heard by the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress. It shows then-Vice-President Dick Cheney suffering a heart attack.

[libertybele]

Gee....anyone else think Pence just may throw his old boss under the bus? He'll throw as many GOP under the bus as he can; including Cruz and Hawley.

[Hoodat]

Ben Siegel
@bensiegel
One by one, Democrats are coming over to introduce themselves to former VP Dick Cheney and shake his hand.

Most likely to thank him for their Gilead Pharmaceutical stock dividends.

[Hoodat]

Gee....anyone else think Pence just may throw his old boss under the bus? He'll throw as many GOP under the bus as he can; including Cruz and Hawley.

Not sure how Pence can throw Trump under the bus when Trump did nothing wrong.