In a clip of the documentary by filmmaker Alex Holder, which was obtained by DailyExpertNews, Pence is shown an email from a member of his staff, in which the documentary says it contains the House motion for a resolution demanding that Pence 25th Amendment to remove Trump from power.
However, a Pence spokesperson disputed the characterization, calling it fabricated. “In the documentary, Vice President Pence responded to confirmation that his letter had been sent to President Pelosi, rejecting her ploy to introduce the 25th Amendment,” Pence’s spokesman said.
Holder told DailyExpertNews’s Don Lemon in an interview airing Thursday night about the email Pence received, “I could see on the phone what it was.”
DailyExpertNews cannot independently confirm what Pence was shown during the interview.
In the documentary interview, Pence says to his assistant, “Yeah, excellent,” as he gets the phone with the email. He then laughs painedly and asks the assistant to “tell Zach to print me a paper copy for the trip home.” Pence then gathers for the remainder of the interview.
The next clip shows Pence saying, “I’m always hopeful about America,” interspersed with the backdrop of crews erecting security fences around the Capitol.
The footage of the interview with Pence, previously unreleased, was captured less than a week after pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory. Pence had to be evacuated to safety after calls from rioters to “hang Mike Pence.”
In the short clip of the documentary released by Discovery Plus, which is owned by DailyExpertNews’s parent company, Pence does not comment on the content of the resolution. But the video is a small sampling of the additional content now in the possession of the committee. However, the documentary states that during his interview, the former vice president declined to discuss anything related to January 6.
Holder, the filmmaker, appeared behind closed doors Thursday for a statement with the Jan. 6 committee, which likely asked him about what he observed over the course of nearly six months as he had behind-the-scenes access to key Trump figures and even the former president himself.
In a clip from a March 2021 interview with Trump in Mar-a-Lago, the former president is asked directly about what happened on January 6.
“Well, it was a sad day, but it was a day when there was great anger in our country, and people went to Washington in the first place because they were angry about an election that they think was rigged,” Trump said. .
“A very small portion, as you know, went to the Capitol, and then a very small portion went in,” Trump continued. “But I’ll tell you they were angry from the standpoint of what happened in the election, because they’re smart, and they see, and they saw what happened. And I believe that was a big part of what was on there.” January 6 happened.”
Holder’s “Unprecedented” three-part docuseries about the 2020 election will be released on Discovery Plus later this summer. The documentary features never-before-seen footage of the Trump family on the campaign trail and their reactions to the election results.
Trump and his allies have yet to publicly respond to news that Holder has been subpoenaed by the commission or to the revelation of what was said in the interviews now in the panel’s possession.
The documentary features interviews with Trump and three of his children: Ivanka, Don Jr. and Eric, according to the clips released by Discovery Plus and obtained by DailyExpertNews.
Like Trump, his family members are speaking directly to the camera in the footage. The interviews may provide new insight into what those closest to the former president were saying leading up to and after Jan. 6.
In a short clip obtained by DailyExpertNews from December 2020, Ivanka Trump told the filmmaker, “As the president has said, every vote must be counted and heard. He campaigned for the voiceless.”
Those comments seem to contradict the sentiment she expressed in the documentary interview.
The documentary also shows Pence talking in detail about the process by which Trump selected him as his running mate. He talks about Trump inviting his family to his estate in Bedminster, New Jersey and playing golf with the then GOP nominee as part of his vetting process.
The documentary then notes how Trump attacked Pence on Jan. 6 when rioters demanded his hanging, before turning to an interview clip of Trump.
“I think I treat people right unless they don’t treat me right, in which case you go to war,” Trump said.
UPDATE: This story and headline have been updated to indicate that a spokesperson for former Vice President Mike Pence disputed the content of the email Pence responded to in the documentary footage.