Former Vice President Mike Pence told his staff that his statement outlining his reasoning to resist President Trump’s pressure to overturn the November 2020 election ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021 certification may be “the most important thing I ever say.”
Mr. Pence’s former counsel Greg Jacob revealed the weight the vice president placed on the statement in a videotaped deposition plated Thursday at a House Jan. 6 Committee hearing.
“The vice president had said, ‘This may be the most important thing I ever say,” Mr. Jacob said in the video.
In a letter to Congress on the day of the certification, Mr.