Former Vice President Mike Pence sits down for exclusive interview with ABC’s ‘World News Tonight’ anchor David Muir

Washington — Former Vice President Mike Pence says In an exclusive interview with ABC’s “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir Former President Donald Trump’s remarks were “reckless” after his supporters ransacked the Capitol last year – with Pence and others temporarily forced into hiding.

“I mean, the president’s words were reckless. Obviously, he decided to be part of the problem,” Pence told Muir.

Pence said he was “outraged” by a tweet from Trump as the rebellion unfolded, when the former president said he “did not have the guts to do what he should have done” after rejecting pressure not to testify against incumbent Joe Biden Things to do”. Victory in 2020.

“I turned to my daughter who was standing nearby and I said, ‘It doesn’t take courage to break the law. It takes courage to uphold the law,'” Pence is releasing his memoir ‘God Bless Me,'” Moore said in his first network TV interview since the uprising on Tuesday. told Moore.

In an exclusive interview at the former vice president’s Indiana home, Moore also pressured Pence about whether Trump should be in the White House again, whether Pence would run for president, and whether Trump was hurt in the midterm elections Republicans, as well as Pence’s views on what the authorities said, classified documents taken from the White House.

Pence is overseeing congressional certification of the 2020 Electoral College results when Trump urged a large crowd to march to the Capitol before crossing security and vandalizing the building on Jan. 6, 2021, causing Pence and Congress MPs are blocked.

Programming Notes: Exclusive interview will be broadcast on Monday instead of “The Good Doctor”

“The president’s words were reckless, his actions were reckless,” he told Muir this week. “The president’s remarks at the rally (before the riots) that day endangered me and my family and everyone in the Capitol.”

Trump eventually told rioters to leave, but was only berating Pence for not preventing certification — Pence pointed out he couldn’t do so legally — and repeating baseless conspiracy theories about widespread fraud in the 2020 election after.

Since leaving office, Pence has praised his administration’s policies while breaking with Trump, who was obsessed with the last presidential campaign.