so disloyal, mr. trump said. mr. pence lost it. mr. pence picked up the art company and threw it back at mr. trump. he leaned forward toward the president and pointed a finger a few inches from his chest. "we walk you through every detail of this," mr. pence snarled. with he did this for you as a favor and this is how you respond. you need to get your facts straight. i just wonder what you think about this because obviously this challenges the very public face that pence put on where he was so complimentary and so differential to trump. >> well, i think the moral of the story is you can only take so much, even mike pence. i can only say, though, that i wish that we had seen a little more of that mike pence publicly and not heard it after everything was over when people are trying to rehabilitate their reputations. i mean, the fact of the matter is there should have been more pushback on the president and more pushback publicly on the president when president trump -- when he did outrageous things. i just wish we had seen more of that f

the chair recognizes the gentleman from indiana, mr. pence, for five minutes. mr. pence: thank you, madam speaker. today i rise to recognize the hard work and dedication of brendan bridges as he retires from service as the greensburg police chief. first joining in the department in 2001, chief bridges served as a patrol officer and detective before being promoted as police chief in 2014. he has turned a chapter and become -- becaming the resource officer in greensburg community school systems. thank you again, chief bridges, for your service to our community and on behalf of indiana's sixth district, we would like to wish you best of luck in your future enbevers. -- endeavors. madam speaker, i rise today to congratulate shelby county, indiana, on the bicentennial anniversary of its founding. created in 1821 by the indiana general assembly, shelby county is a doughnut county of the greater indianapolis area. with a population of around 45,000 people, shelby county is the home of the 21st vice president of the united states, thomas hendricks. shelby county is a predo

mr. pence asked him. mr. kushner asked him to hire the man and he discussed it with mr. trump over lunch. he pointed a finger a few inches from his chest c we walk through every detail of this, mr. pence snarled. we did this for you as a favor. and this is how you respond? you need to get your facts straight. remarkable, someone who covered the trump white house, not only is this a fascinating inside look at the tension, but most of the stories have been the president sort of pushing the vice president aside. this is the vice president getting worked up. >> it didn't happen often, but it did happen. contrary to what you saw in public between the two of them and their dynamic, this often happened. it was something that was kind of fascinating to watch when you were reporting on mike pence and reporting on trump. how he did navigate that relationship, and he was normally very deferential to the president. that was the attitude you had to take to survive even though pence we joked was the one person heb could not fire. there were points oh tension between them at time. and

pence five minutes. mr. pence thank spunk, mr. westerman. the problem is drought and the problem -- mr. pence: thank you, mr. westerman. the problem is drought and the problem is water across the united states. wells are going dry, leaving fish, wildlife, agriculture and homes without water. republican members have been working hard to bring attention to this issue. we organized a republican water forum where we spoke with expert witnesses across the west dealing with this issue every day. they are the ones from the communities directly affected. this problem does not exist in a vacuum. drought makes wildfires far more severe and severe wildfires destroy watersheds, in turn making out more vulnerable to drought. this horrific cycle will only continue until we find a better way to manage our forests and i think ranking members wearerman's forest resilience bill takes a huge step in that direction. my district right now is experiencing the largest wildfire, the third largest wildfire so far in the state's history. it's burned some 400,000 acre

pence's political committee hired cory lewandowski he crumbled the article, so disloyal. mr. pence lost it. pence picked up the article and threw it back at trump. he leaned toward the president and pointed a finger a few inches from his chest. we walk you through every detail of this, pence snarled. we did this for you as a favor and this is how you respond? you need to get your facts straight. so, i think this episode is depicted by michael comes as a surprise to all of us who didn't think mike pence ever stood up to donald trump in any form or fashion here and seems a bit of contrast to how he at least publicly spoke out against the president prior to january 6th. >> yeah. two things are revealing from this part of bender's new book and that is that, yes, this relationship between the president and the former president and the former vice president was never as rosy as it seemed. often in public you would see mike pence talking about trump's broad shoulders and his leadership and all of that, behind the scenes of course he was very delicately navigating a relationship with

mr. pence: thank you, mr. chairman. and i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. chairman, i rise in opposition to h.r.2668. i agree with my democratic colleagues that the f.t.c. should be reasonably equipped with tools to protect consumers. to date, the f.t.c. has been able to return more than $25 million to hoosiers that have fallen victim to fraudulent schemes. however, as currently written, the bill before the house today goes beyond the f.t.c.'s price use of 13-b. the bill lacks sufficient guardrails that would provide checks and balances to the commission's expanded authority. meanwhile, we haven't had the opportunity to discuss this legislation with the full commission in an open and transparent hearing. during the markup process, we offered several commonsense amendments in a good faith effort to improve the bill. these amendments would have created thresholds holds of f.t.c. authority and clarifying definitions to ensure provisions in this bill could not be abused. unfortunately, these reforms were not supported by the majority. i am concerned that rushin

pence. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from indiana is recognized for one minute. mr. pence: i thank my colleague for yielding. madam chair, i rise in opposition to h.r. 4502. inflation, inflation, and inflation. this is the biggest thing i hear about back in my indiana 6 district. hoosiers in indiana are worried about the consequences to democrats' tax and spend agenda is having on their pocketbooks. after this week, speaker pelosi is recessing the house until september having done next to nothing to address the real issues the american people are facing. food, energy, transportation, hardworking phones are already -- hardworking folks are already unnecessarily paying more this biden inflation crisis is hitting home. consumer prices are at a 13-year high. in six months democratic leadership is compounding this crisis with a completely wasteful, bloated bus. i urge my colleagues to oppose this hyper partisan appropriation package for the good of the american people. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from arkansas reserves.

pence we're actually something mrs. nixon, even as a young woman, enjoyed wearing. in a letter she wrote to her aunt during her junior year at usc, she was working working part-time's at bullocks wilshire in los angeles, she revealed she always wore fans to work. and many of her coworkers were disappointed because they said they wanted to see her beautiful figure in the dresses. but you considered it more professional to wear pants. and that becomes a little bit of a metaphor for pat nixon. she went about her work, whether it was as a young woman, whether it was as a wife and about, where whether it was as a first, quietly and effectively, without a need for publicity, always with the intention of truly helping those she was intending to assist. richard nixon, in 1952, when he gives his famous checkers speech, it mentions for the first time by a political figure, a presidential -- vice presidential candidate, but enters for the first time into the popular imagination the idea of clothing and politics when he talks about, as he put it, pat's respectable cloth coat, r

what specifically did vice president pence say to you that day? mr. miller: the vice president did not direct me to the capitol. he is not in the chain of command. i discussed the situation. he provided insights and i notified him or warned him that by that point, the district of columbia national guard was fully mobilized and incoordination local and federal law enforcement to assist in clearing the capital. rep. maloney: according to the dod timeline it, the vice president's call occurred at four: oh 8 p.m., more than two hours after the capitol had been breached. yet according to this timeline, it was not until after your call with vice president pentz at 4:32 p.m. that you authorized d.c. national guard troops to deployed to the capital. did you issue your order in response to the vice president's call? mr. miller: no, i issued it to mobilize the district of columbia national guard to provide all necessary support to civilian and local and federal law enforcement at 3 p.m. and the order was issued at 3:04 p.m.. rep. maloney: your order to deploy c

. >> you spoke to mr. trump about his relationship with mike pence which obviously got very strained in those final days. you asked directly about whether he'd put pence on the ticket again if he runs again. >> i was struck the second time i spoke to president trump that at that point he and mike pence had spoken by phone half a dozen times. the president was reached out to mike pence. and someone who -- he had described to his supporters as basically a traitor to the country. >> yes. >> striking to me that he would reach out. i wanted to know if he would -- he would run with him again and if he expected pence to apologize for upholding the constitution. and it was striking to me that the president would not touch that issue. he -- he is not ready to make a decision about 2024. >> what's interesting is in 2016 team trump thought they were going to lose, in 2020 they thought they were going to win. after he didn't win, you said he goes from being leader of the free world to, you call it the king of mar-a-la

so i called him mike, i don't call him mike now, mr. vice president. but i said, mike, if you all when and i make sure the president understands, it's god because they were expecting to lose. they were behind all the polls and that night they won their election and i think it was god that that pushed him over. and i think he was god's choice and guardsman for that moment. and so i'm thankful to god that we had the president for 4 years. i wish that he had had 4 more years. i think the relationships with with this country would be completely different. i know the president trump want to reach out to president putin and begin to work together. and that, that it didn't happen. what was your biggest, in your opinion, the biggest chief of the trump presidency or the thing that made you most happy about it? well, i think the judges that here pointed here, pointed very conservative judges to the federal bench those to the supreme court. i think we're, we're good choices. i think that will be his legacy or the judges. and that will affect my children and my gr

( laughter ) it explains his message, don't be a stranger this summer, let's totally hang, mike pence ( laughter ) ( applause ) ol' gabe brown didn't just sign his name. he also said his name. on camera. a bunch. >> my name's gabriel brown. g.b.0083 youtube channel. >> mr brown. >> brown: yep. >> stephen: criminal mastermind. ( laughter ) you can see it all play out in the new cbs crime drama -- csi: aaand we've already caught him. ( laughter ) also, worth noting: he plugged his youtube channel during the insurrection. reminds me of when john wilkes booth jumped onto the stage and shouted, sic semper like and subscribe! ( laughter ) next up in the lasso of justice upscale capitol rioter and woman who really should've worn a black square over her face that day, sandra weyer. weyer was arrested monday after being caught encouraging an assault on a "new york times" photographer during the capitol riot, yelling, "get her out, mace her!" that's scary, also dumb. (as rioter) quick! attack the person currently taking photographic evidence of what we're doing to her. make sure she gets your g

thank you, mr. president. >> mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator carper, and thank you for your leadership this issue over many years. before i introduce our witnesses, i want to give two very important guests an opportunity to provide remarks. our first is congresswoman eleanor holmes norton, the delegate, from the district of columbia. congresswoman holmes norton has without question been the leading voice in this fight for statehood. she has worked tirelessly, i think that is a good word, to sum up your work. tirelessly to provide her constituents with equal representation throughout her 15 terms tenure in the congress. she recently led the passage of the washington, d.c. admission act through the congress earlier this year. welcome, congresswoman. again, thank you for your tireless leadership on this issue. i speak for the entire committee. we look forward to hearing your remarks. >> microphone? >> is it on now? >> i thank you, mr. chairman. chairman peters, on behalf of the 700,000 district of columbia residents