As it happened: January 6: Capitol riot hearing praises Pence for averting 'catastrophe' - BBC News
A congressional committee said Trump tried to pressure his vice-president to overturn election results.
There is absolutely NO way the vice-president could reject the result of the presidential election. That may not seem like news.

Most people listening to this testimony will be thinking "no [expletive], Sherlock"

Only a tiny handful of people around Donald Trump thought it was even remotely possible that Mike Pence could declare Trump the winner or send the results back to individual states. And we already know that those people were known by some as "Team Crazy".

It may seem hardly necessary to lay out all the legal, historical and constitutional arguments over why it is not possible for one person to overturn an election result.

So why are we listening to all this evidence about what legal advisers discussed and the pressure Trump piled on Pence to get him to change his mind?

It is part of the wider case the committee plan to make against Donald Trump.

They want to demonstrate not just that Trump inspired the violent attack on the Capitol on 6 Jan 2021, but that it was part of a wider, deliberate conspiracy to illegally overturn the election result. No less than an attempted coup.

The committee will return to this narrative when they draw together all the strands of their inquiry and put together what will amount to the case for the prosecution of Donald Trump.

The select committee can't try or convict Trump. They can't even bring criminal charges against him. But the attorney general can, and he has said he is watching these hearings closely. It's obvious that members of the committee think there is a case to answer.