investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. pursuing the house deposition authority regulation ten, chair announces the committee s approval to release the deposition material, any coming from today s hearing. good afternoon, when i think about the most basic thing to explain the importance of elections in the united states, there is a phrase that always comes to mind. it may sound straightforward, but, it is meaningful we settle our differences at the ballot box, sometimes my choice prevails, sometimes yours does, but, it is that simple, we cannot stop votes, we count the votes, if something seems off with the results we can challenge them in court and then we accept the results. when you are on the losing side, that does not mean you have to be happy about it, and, in the united states there is plenty you can do and say so, you can protest, you
[inaudible] committee will be in order. the chair recognizes the gentleman from maryland, mr. raskin. mister chairman, president trump s tweet true tens of thousands of americans to washington to form the angry crowd that would be transformed on january the 6th into a violent mob. dr. daniela harvey in, who is the chief of homeland security and intelligence for d.c., told the committee how his team saw trump s tweet unite violent groups across the spectrum on the far-right. we got derogatory information from ascent suggesting that violent individuals were organizing to come to home d.c.. not only where they organizing to come to d.c. but he s not aligned groups were aligning. and so, all the red flags went up at that point. when you have armed militia collaborating with white supremacy groups, collaborating with conspiracy theory groups online for a comical. you start seeing what we call in terrorism a blended ideology, and that s a very, very bad sign. then, when they
she was active in her efforts to try to help with the overturning of the election. some committee members i have talked to are skeptical as to whether or not she was playing an influential role in all of this, but still, the committee is interested in the role she was playing. at this point, they re still open to talking to people, even though it does appear that their investigation is heading toward the finish. we know for sure, jake, they have a big witness coming in this week, and that s patrick byrne, who is the overstock ceo, who was a part of that explosive meeting that was detailed in great specificity in today s hearing. more than anything, the investigation continues. ryan, thank you so much. today s testimony concluded with akaitlan collins has been working her sources, and a lot of people in the media, a lot of people in trump world trying to figure out who liz cheney was talking about when she noted alleged attempted witness tampering, donald trump reaching ou
say, listen, listen to what we re going to tell you. in addition to what we told you in the previous handful of hearings. listen to what we re going to tell you. watch what we re going to show you today. after he was told by officials on the federal level, inside the white house, on the state level, anybody who he could listen to, who actually knew what was going on, who had the evidence. especially bill barr, he just looked for people who would tell him what he wanted to hear. and then what today showed was that when he didn t get those people to help him, he turned to the people he knew would listen, his twitter followers, oath keepers. just to underline what we re seeing now, we re seeing, if you put the pictures back up, we re seeing images of some of the police officers that have already testified and specifically the one in the middle there, sergeant acalino. staff sergeant, a former u.s. army sergeant, iraq war veteran, who was so gravely wounded defending the capito
failed because this man is continuing to use a seditious lies to try to hold on to power in this country, is illegally pressuring witnesses to not give testimony to one of the branches of government that has a sacred obligation to protect the constitution. i mean, if you think about it, we have candidates all over the country proudly campaigning on this seditious lie. it is time. i feel very strongly that there is a mountain of evidence now about this man s state of mind and exactly what went down, and that when he couldn t do it legally, he said screw the law. i don t care about the law. i want to hold on to power, and that is a crime. well, so much there to unpack in your one response, claire. i think in some ways, the quietest witness was the most tragic one. it was mr. ayers. he was one such radicalized trump supporter. he described himself as a family man and a working man. he said everything about his life has changed. in an eerie way, there was an echo to a life bein