Former Vice President Mike Pence, who once loyally served Donald Trump, announced he'll challenge his former boss for the Republican presidential nomination and blasted Trump for his role in the 2021 attack on the US Capitol https://reut.rs/45TSRau | Reuters

President Trump called his then-Vice President Mike Pence a "wimp" during their final phone call on Jan. 6, 2021, according to Pence's previously unpublished notes included in a new book by ABC News' Jonathan Karl. According to court filings, had his case against Trump gone to trial, special counsel Jack Smith planned to use the handwritten notes — hastily scribbled on Pence's day planner — as evidence to document the hours leading up to Jan. 6, 2021. Read more: https://abcnews.visitlink.me/JtAS

Former Vice President Mike Pence: "The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone and I will always be proud that we did our part on that tragic day to reconvene the Congress and fulfilled our duty under the Constitution...There's more at stake than our party and our political fortunes in this moment. If we lose faith in the Constitution, we won't just lose elections. We will lose our country. So now more than ever, America needs the Republican Party to be the party