Today was the third day of the Jan. 6 committee hearings exploring the attack on the U.S Capitol last year. Three of the nine members of that select committee are from California. Today's focus was on the role of Vice President's Mike Pence and the pressure brought to bear on him to try to help then President Donald Trump's illegally overturn the election of Joe Biden. 

For more, KCBS Radio political reporter and host of this segment Doug Sovern spoke with Erroll Southers, Professor of the Practice in National and Homeland Security at the USC Price School of Public Policy. He is also a former FBI special agent and he was deputy director of Homeland Security under California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.