PICTURED: Mike Pence taking cover in office during the Capitol riot

A new photo shows Mike Pence and his family hiding in his Senate office just minutes after he was evacuated from the Senate floor on January 6 as a mob stormed the Capitol.

The image taken by a White House photographer and published Wednesday night by ABC portrays the Vice President, second lady Karen, his daughter Charlotte and his Republican Congressman Greg sitting and waiting as the chaos unfolded.

Karen is seen closing the curtains so rioters couldn’t see inside while the vice president, Charlotte and Greg sit and wait on chairs. The vice president, who also serves as president of the Senate, has an office in the Capitol building near the Senate floor. 

Trump supporters were heard chanting ‘hang Mike Pence’ as they swarmed the Capitol.

Later Pence and his family would be rushed out of the office and taken to another location in the Capitol complex when the rioters breached the Senate floor. 

The new image surfaced on the eve of the January 6 committee’s hearing focusing on Pence’s role on the of the insurrection. 

The former vice president’s lawyers are also expected to testify about how they reacted to Donald Trump’s claims the election was rigged and stolen. 

A new photo shows Mike Pence and his family hiding in a Senate office just minutes after he was evacuated on January 6 as a mob stormed the Capitol. The image taken by a White House portrays the Vice President, second lady Karen, his daughter Charlotte and his Republican Congressman Greg sitting and waiting as the chaos unfolded 

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Vice President Mike Pence and his daughter Charlotte work on the speech he would give to the joint session when Congress reconvened to certify Joe Biden’s election

On Friday night, Pence‘s former chief of staff confirmed on Wednesday that he warned the Secret Service the night before the January 6th insurrection that Pence could be in danger at the Capitol building.

Marc Short testified to the House committee investigating the insurrection for more than eight hours behind closed doors in January. Portions of that testimony are expected to be played at Thursday morning’s hearing.

That hearing will focus on Donald Trump‘s efforts to pressure Pence to refuse to count and certify the electoral count. It is the ceremonial role of the vice president to oversee the formal certification of the presidential election.

Short confirmed to CNN that he did speak with the Secret Service on the night of January 5th.

‘Thousands of people descending upon Washington with hopes of a different outcome – I think it was important they be alerted to that,’ he said of his conversation with security. 

‘But I did not have any specific, you know, intelligence. I did not have any knowledge the capitol would be attacked the way it was,’ he told Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday evening.

Greg Jacob, who served as counsel to Pence, and retired U.S. Appeals Court Judge J. Michael Luttig, who was an informal adviser, are scheduled to testify in person at the third of an expected six public hearings the committee has planned.

Committee aides told CNN that Thursday’s hearing will focus on how Trump had driven the pressure campaign against Pence despite being told by lawyers in the White House counsel’s office that Pence did not have the authority to unilaterally subvert the election results. 

Former Pence chief of staff Marc Short confirms he warned Secret Service on January 5th of a possible threat against Mike Pence

On January 6th then-Vice President Mike Pence was evacuated from the Senate as rioters rushed the Capitol building

Short would not, however, confirm what New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman reported in her forthcoming book – ‘Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America’ – that Short expected Trump to turn publicly against Pence, creating a possible risk to the vice president.

He told CNN he thought Trump was ill served with advice after the election.

‘I think ultimately the buck stops with the president. I also think there’s people around the president I think served him very poorly and I think gave poor advice,’ he said.

Short also said he wasn’t convinced of the committee’s finding that Trump agreed with the MAGA supporters who were shouting for Pence to be hanged. 

During Thursday evening’s hearing, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, who serves on the panel investigating the insurrection, said of Trump: ‘Aware of the rioters’ chants to ‘hang Mike Pence,’ the president responded with this sentiment: ‘Maybe our supporters have the right idea.’ Mike Pence ‘deserves’ it.’ 

There were gasps in the hearing room at her words. 

‘I NEVER said, or even thought of saying, “Hang Mike Pence.” This is either a made up story by somebody looking to become a star, or FAKE NEWS!,’ Trump wrote in response the next day on Truth Social.

Short said he wasn’t convinced that Trump wanted Pence hanged. 

‘I’m not even yet convinced of that. I know what the committee said. I also know the president denied that,’ he told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. 

In the days leading up to the January 6th certification, Trump delivered a string of tweets demanding that Pence use his position to prevent Congress certifying his election defeat to Joe Biden.

Pence had already told the president he had no such power.

Short told CNN that Pence was doing his constitutional duty when he oversaw thee certification of the election.

‘He did his duty. He swore an oath to uphold the constitution. He swore an oath to god to uphold the constitution just as our men and women in uniform do,’ he said.

Mike Pence, in a ceremonial role fulfilled by the vice president, oversaw the formal certification of the electoral college results