the request includes records from the trump white house relating in any way to former president trump and former vice president mike pence and in total to 30 other key figures in trump s orbit. in letters demanded from the national archives and several other agencies the committee chairman signaled an expansive investigation touching not only on what happened on january 6th but also materials that could shed light on matters such as the former president s knowledge of the election results and what he communicated to the american people about the election. the requests include information on communications within and among the white house and executive branch agencies during the leadup to january 6th and on that day as well as attempts to place politically loyal personnel in senior positions across government after the election. the committee is hoping to fill in. a campaign that culminated in the deadly attack as congress tried to certify the election results. here is a littl
speaker nancy pelosi announcing the formation of a select committee to investigate. this morning with great solemnity and sadness i m announcing that the house will be establishing a select committee on the january 6 insurrection. again, january 6th was one of the darkest days in our nation s history. i ve said it now three times. it is imperative that we establish the truth of that day and ensure that an attack of that kind cannot happen and that we root out the causes of it all. speaker pelosi s announcement follows months now of public and brazen obstruction by senate republicans including voting against the establishment of an independent bipartisan commission. last month only six gop senators voted alongside all of the democrats in favor of it falling short of the 60-vote threshold. the select committee follows months of white washing of the horrors of january 6 by republicans including calling it a peaceful protest and likening the insurrectionists to everyday touri
campaign that incited the deadly insurrection and used the executive branch agencies to carry out a coup attempt. documents released by the oversight committee revealed trump sent an e-mail through an aide the day bill barr departed the doj, seeking assistance in his effort to throw the election results. from new york times an hour before, the president began pressuring the eventual replacement to have the justice department take up his false claims. he sent as e-mail via his assistant to the acting ag. the same claim said a federal judge thrown out a week earlier in a law fight by one of mr. trump s personal lawyers. most of the correspondence also occurred when mr. rosen and his top deputies realized that one of their peers had plotted with mr. trump to first oust mr. rosen and then to try to use federal law enforcement to force georgia to overturn either election results. these people, they ran the justice department. we have now spent the last several weeks with the k
tomorrow s dates. cnn s manu raju is on capitol hill. manu, yet one more official is going to sit down and tell their story of what happened on january 6th. based on the written testimony in advance, it looks like, again, differences, contradictions with what we re hearing from other people who sat in that chair. reporter: and a lot of questions about why the national guard was not called to this building much earlier. there were several hours where people like me, others, so many other people in this building were questioning why was the national guard not here to back up capitol police and perhaps major general william walker, the commanding general of the d.c. national guard could shet some lights. unlike states, the district of columbia is a district and has to rely on not its governor but actually the secretary of the army to essentially approve the national guard request, and why was that request not approved earlier. in this testimony that was released by the committ
live once the witnesses start talking and have a report coming up in just a moment. we re also following some breaking news overseas. president biden now briefed and monitoring that attack on an iraqi military base hosting american soldiers. what we know about who is responsible. that provocation another challenge for the president as he makes a surprise announcement on the one here at home, promising enough vaccine supply for every american months earlier than expected. we will talk about why some states are not waiting to start rolling back their restrictions. our live report from texas coming up. we have a lot to get to in the next few minutes, i m hallie jackson in washington with nbc s garrett haake on capitol hill and new york times reporter zolan is with us as well. garrett, talk about what we can expect to hear today and what we are hearing from some of those witness statements that have been released in the last couple of minutes. reporter: that s right. so rem