But the former vice president noted if he were invited to testify before House investigators, he would have to 'reflect on the unique role that I was serving in as vice president.'
Pence, meanwhile, said Wednesday that Jan. 6 was a"tragic day in the history of our country" and he was"angered" to see the Capitol"ransacked." He criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for rejecting some of the GOP lawmakers proposed by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to sit on the select committee and called it a"missed opportunity" for the American people.
At the crux of Trump's effort to pressure Pence was a theory pushed by conservative lawyer John Eastman that the vice president could single-handedly toss out electoral votes or send slates of electors back to the state legislatures to be replaced during the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress, which Pence presided over.
Some of the rioters chanted"hang Mike Pence," and the then-vice president was ultimately evacuated from the Senate after they breached the Capitol. The committee said Pence came within 40 feet of the mob, though he refused Secret Service directions to get in a car to leave the Capitol. Instead, he was kept in a secure location within the Capitol complex for more than four hours until the building was cleared and the joint session reconvened to affirm Mr. Biden's victory.
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