The mob of pro-Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was at one point 40 feet away from former Vice President Mike Pence, and some rioters wanted to kill him, according to details revealed Thursday in the latest hearing of the committee investigating the attack.

Approximately 40 feet. Thats all there was, said Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), who led most of the hearings proceedings. Forty feet between the vice president and the mob.

The committee had just aired footage from Jan. 6, which featured hundreds of riled up rioters demanding that Pence carry out former President Donald Trumps demand that he reject the results of the 2020 election, which Trump lost. The video featured people chanting, Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence! Outside the Capitol, footage showed that the insurrectionists had constructed an actual hangmans gallows .

Greg Jacob, Pences former counsel and one of two witnesses testifying on Thursday, was with Pence on Jan. 6. as they fled the mob and hid in an undisclosed location for hours.

He learned in Thursdays hearing, along with everyone else, just how close the rioters were to reaching the vice president.

I could hear the din of the rioters in the building while we moved, Jacob recalled. But I dont think I was aware that they were as close as that.

Aguilar then dropped another stunning detail: A recent court filing from the Justice Department revealed that a confidential informant from the Proud Boys, the far-right neofascist group that took part in the Capitol attack, told the FBI that the Proud Boys would have killed Mike Pence if given the chance.

That same informant also told the FBI, Anyone they got their hands on, they would have killed, including Nancy Pelosi, said Aguilar, referring to the House speaker, a Democrat from California.

Make no mistake about the fact that the vice presidents life was in danger,Aguilar added.