-The House Committee investigating
the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol
has spent months compiling information
and conducting interviews,
resulting in a summer series of eight revelatory hearings.
They took a step-by-step approach
to show the efforts that led to the insurrection
and rebuild the events of the deadly day.
Here's your recap of how the committee built their case
across all eight hearings.
The first hearing worked to build the narrative
of the attack itself,
with the committee debuting never-before-seen footage.
-We need to hold the doors of the Capitol.
-They also previewed depositions with key Trump officials.
-I made it clear I did not agree with the idea
of saying the election was stolen
and putting out this stuff,
which I told the president was [bleep]
-The next hearing took a step back
to examine how certain members of Trump's circle
believed false claims of voter fraud across states
while others tried to steer the president away from this path.
-The major allegations are not supported
by the evidence developed.
We've looked in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada.
-I thought, "Boy, if he really believes this stuff,
he has, you know, lost contact with --
he's become detached from reality."
-June 16th's hearing
dug into President Trump's pressure campaign
on Vice President Pence
for him to refuse counting electoral votes.
-I would have laid my body... across the road
before I would have let the vice president
overturn the 2020 election.
-And how Pence remained firmly against that request.
-The answer cannot possibly be
that the vice president has that authority.
As the committee already played the vice president's remarks,
there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion
that any one person would choose the American president.
-At the midpoint of the hearing series,
the committee unpacked Trump's scheme
to offer fake electors in battleground states
in an effort to overturn the 2020 election.
We heard from officials in those states who refused to do so.
-There was no evidence being presented
of any strength.
-We just followed the law, and we followed the Constitution.
And at the end of the day, President Trump came up short.
-Beyond the president's failed false electors plan,
he also pressured the Justice Department
to investigate election fraud.
DOJ officials testified about their refusal to do so,
citing a lack of evidence.
-He thought the election had been stolen or was corrupt
and that there was widespread fraud.
And I had told him that our reviews
had not shown that to be the case.
-Others spoke out about the president's attempt
to install former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark
as the department's head
so he could spearhead this effort.
-That comment clearly had an impact on the president.
"The leadership will be gone.
Jeff Clark will be left leading a graveyard."
-We heard from Clark himself, but he didn't say much.
-Fifth and executive privilege,
again just restated for the abundance of caution.
-June 28th's bombshell revelations came from an aide
to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
Cassidy Hutchinson.
She spoke about Trump's demeanor
and attempts to get to the Capitol on January 6th.
-There was ketchup dripping down the wall,
and there was a shattered porcelain plate on the floor.
I overheard the president say something to the effect of,
"I don't f'ing care that they have weapons."
The president reached up towards the front of the vehicle
to grab at the steering wheel.
Mr. Engel grabbed his arm, said, "Sir,
you need to take your hand off the steering wheel.
We're going back to the West Wing.
We're not going to the Capitol."
-The penultimate hearing drew the connection
between Trump himself and extremist groups
present at the insurrection.
-You know, the president,
you know, got everybody riled up,
told everybody to head on down.
So we basically were just following what he said.
-This could have been the spark that started a new civil war.
-We also gained insight into those advising the president
leading up to the insurrection.
-I walked in, I saw General Flynn,
I saw Sidney Powell sitting there.
The Overstock person I've never met.
I never knew who this guy was.
I don't think any of these people
were providing the president with good advice.
-The final hearing focused on Trump's action, or inaction,
in the face of the attack on January 6th.
-Within 15 minutes of leaving the stage,
President Trump knew that the Capitol
was besieged and under attack.
-The president did not want to include any sort of mention
of peace in that tweet
and that it took some convincing on their part,
those who were in the room.
-There were calls to
say goodbye to family members, so on and so forth.
It was getting -- For whatever the reason was on the ground,
the VP detail thought that this was about to get very ugly.
-All eight of these hearings built a clearer picture
of the violent attack on the Capitol.
And there's still more to come.
The committee has plans to conduct more hearings
and issue a full report of their findings.
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