'An Attack on America': Former Federal Judge J. Michael Luttig, Who Advised Pence's Team (video)

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https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/j-michael-luttig-judge-mike-pence-house-jan-6-committee-hearings/

The morning before the violent Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, the renowned conservative lawyer and former federal Judge J. Michael Luttig received an urgent call from Vice President Mike Pence’s outside counsel: “Judge, we need to help the vice president. … We have to do something very quickly. … Somehow, we need to get your voice out to the country.”

Luttig would soon issue the now famous tweets imploring Pence not to buckle to former President Donald Trump’s pressure to block certification of the 2020 election results.

“The plan was to overturn the election through the exploitation of what I’ve called the institutions of democracy and the instruments and instrumentalities of our democracy,” Luttig told FRONTLINE in his first television interview, conducted in the lead-up to his testimony before the Jan. 6 House select committee.

The hearings begin tonight. Luttig is expected to testify next week.

“And we know now there’s no question about it,” Luttig said. “They knew exactly what they were doing. And they believed it.”

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2. This judge is an important witness