“During several hours you spoke with the caretaker defense minister. [Mark] Milley. You spoke with Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen, the Capitol Police Chief. Where was the president in all this?” Muir asked the former vice president. “David, I was on Capitol Hill. I wasn’t in the White House,” Pence told Muir. “I can’t account for what the president did that day. I was on a loading dock at the Capitol where there was a commotion.” Muir pressed Pence on reports that Trump was watching the riot unfold on television at the White House. “But why didn’t he make those calls?” Muir was stepped on. Pence replied: “That would be a good question for him.” Former Vice President Mike Pence is interviewed by ABC News’ David Muir. ABC News In an exclusive interview at the former vice president’s home in Indiana, Muir also pressed Pence on whether Trump should be back in the White House, whether Pence will run for president, whether Trump hurt Republicans in the midterms and what Pence says about authorities. saying classified documents were obtained from the White House. Pence was overseeing the certification of the 2020 Electoral College results by Congress on January 6, 2021, when a large crowd incited by Trump marched on the Capitol and then broke security and vandalized the building, leading Pence and lawmakers of Congress in lockdown. Trump, who insisted he had done nothing wrong, eventually told the rioters to leave, but only after berating Pence for not blocking the certification — something Pence noted he could not legally do — and repeating baseless conspiracy theories about widespread fraud in the 2020 election. ABC News’ Tal Axelrod contributed to this report.
