The U. S House committee investigating their January 6th attack on
the capital concluded its first round of public hearings last night
with a nearly three hour presentation centered on a crucial 187 minutes
on that day, featuring firsthand accounts inside the White House,
Lisa Desjardin report.
Center stage at last night hearings about the January 6th riot President
Trump's inaction as his supporters carried it out and law enforcement
feared for their lives. Building holes.
Laura, remember, we need to look now happy we lose.
Any more time we may have may lose their ability to believe one jury
in moment, listening to the Secret Service radio for help.
Testimony from a Secret service agent whose identity was protected,
captured the fear in the vice president's detail.
Um, a lot of
A lot of very personal calls, um, over the radio.
Like talking about it, but
They were called to say goodbye to family members and so forth. He
was getting
For whatever reason was on the ground. BP details that this was about
to get very ugly
room lawmakers who were at the Capitol that day held on to one another
and showed dismay at the footage.
The committee showed that at the attack raged, those around Trump
were urging him to call for the mob to stop. Bologna was the president's
top White House lawyer was pretty clear that need to be an immediate
and forceful response statement, public statement that
People need to leave the capital network. Even the former president,
own son Don Jr texted White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, 2
53.
He wrote. He's got to condemn this ASAP. The Capitol police tweet
is not enough.
Mr Meadows replied, I am pushing it hard. I agree. The committee
used a map to show where President Trump watched the attack live
on television from the White House dining room. Former White House
press aide Sarah Mathews stressed that location he could have been
on camera almost instantly if he had wanted to make an address from
the Oval Office.
We could have assembled the White House press corps, probably in
a matter of minutes to get them into the oval for him to do an on
camera address. Former deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger
spoke about one of Trump's few actions to send out a tweet criticizing
vice president Pence. So the tweet looked to me like the opposite
of what we really needed that moment, which was a de escalation.
Ah Ah, and that's why I had said earlier that it looked like fuel
being poured on the fire. So that was the moment that I decided that
I was going to resign. The hearing also showed remarkable footage
of the leaders at the Capitol, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell
and Democratic leader Chuck Schumer were pushing to call Congress
back to session
like these people keep us from finishing our business, so
I need you to get the bill and cleared what is the earliest that
we could safely resume our proceedings in the Senate and House chambers.
The earliest we could safely resilient community showed the video
that Trump recorded three hours after learning of the attack that
he went off script and spoke lovingly of the crowd. We have to have
peace.
So go home. We love you. You're very special.
You've seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that
are
So bad and so evil.
I know how you feel.
But go home and go home in peace footage showed that the next day
as he recorded another video, Trump still refused to accept his loss.
But this election is now over.
Congress has certified the results. I don't want to say the election's
over. I just want to say
Congress has certified the results without saying the election's
over. Okay. He was defiant again Last night, The former president
responded to the hearing on his social media site, Truth social again,
spouting falsehood and writing. I had an election rigged and stolen
from me and our country
overall. Last night, the committee drilled down on Trump's dereliction
of duty, as it called it, working to isolate him as the problem past
and ongoing, every American must.
Consider this.
Can a president who is willing to make the choices Donald Trump made
during the violence of January 6th.
Ever be trusted with any position of authority in our great nation
again, it is a stain on our history.
It is a dishonor to all those who have sacrificed and died in service
of our democracy panel plans to resume its hearings in September