As he tours in support of his new book Betrayed, about the final year of the Trump presidency, ABC’s Jon Karl is making stops on news programs and even on late-night. In a Late Show tweet, his sit-down interview with Stephen Colbert shows Karl dropping yet another bombshell.

Karl says that not only are there a trove of pictures of former Vice President Mike Pence “in hiding” during the January 6 riots that rocked the Capitol — he’s actually seen them all.

I found out that during the riot, Mike Pence had with him the entire time a photographer. An official White House photographer who captured images of that entire period, including the roughly five hours where Pence was hidden away in the bowels of the Capitol, in a place that nobody’s ever really known. He refused to leave, he wanted to stay there. They got him out of the Senate chamber and they took him somewhere.

Karl says he contacted the White House photographer and managed to see all of the pictures. He noted that it was “wild” to see Pence ensconced away in a “loading dock in an underground parking garage” under the Capitol:

No place to sit, no desk, no chairs, no nothing. He was in this concrete parking garage with his family, and … this is the Vice President of the United States, and he’s like, holed up in a basement.

So Karl contacted Pence and asked for permission to publish the photos in his upcoming book. After all, the pictures were shocking. One photo was of Pence’s chief of staff holding up his phone for him and showing him a tweet from outgoing President Trump calling him out for not doing more to overturn the election:

“This is the guy who fled the rioters” while Pence stayed behind at the Capitol, said Karl.

Although he says Pence would not give permission to print the photos, he suspects that the January 6 Commission will probably want to take a look at them. And aside from that, the photos are part of the National Archives.

Watch:

TONIGHT! @jonkarl talks about the Jan 6th photos former VP Mike Pence doesn’t want the public to see. #LSSC pic.twitter.com/TkzrIMkeWc

— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) November 9, 2021

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