Overview
- Mike Pence told Bill Maher on HBO’s Real Time on Friday that he “never felt a greater sense of resolve” while presiding over the electoral count during the January 6 attack.
- Pence said he would not oppose pardons for people who were merely caught up in the events but insisted anyone who assaulted police or damaged the Capitol “should never get a dime.”
- Maher confronted Pence about rioters who chanted “hang Mike Pence” and the makeshift gallows that witnesses described to the House Jan. 6 Committee, pressing him on whether he feared for his life.
- Pence agreed with Maher that the Constitution limits presidents to two terms and described the idea of a third term as unconstitutional.
- Maher invited Pence to appear on his Club Random podcast and Pence accepted, producing an unusual cross‑partisan media moment that kept questions of accountability and party loyalty in the spotlight.