good evening. earlier this week i received a positive covid diagnosis. pro cdc guidelines i have received the initial two shots and all of the boosters. thus far i have been blessed to experience very minimal symptoms. because i am still quarantined i cannot participate in person with my colleagues. i have asked vice chair miss cheney to preside over this evening s hearing, including maintaining order in the room and swearing in our witnesses. over the last month and a half, the select committee has told a story of a president who did everything in his power to overturn an election. he lied, he bullied, he betrayed his oath. he tried to destroy our democratic institutions. he summoned a mob to washington. afterward, on january 6th, when he knew that the assembled mob was heavily armed and angry, he commanded the mob to go to the capital, and he emphatically commanded the heavily armed mob to fight like hell. for the weeks between november election and january 6th, donald tr
you had pat cipollone and eric herschel, and then you had the raucous debate with the president at the time, donald trump wrrk this team crazy was trying to influence trump to declare martial law and use the military to seize vote machines. named sidney powell as special counsel to oversee an election review. fortunately these ideas were rejected, and then another meeting happened apparently at the residence. a that meeting you had sidney powell, you had rudy giuliani and mark meadows, which led to donald trump s tweet which said come to the meeting on january 6et. it will be wild. you know jack smith is going to wonder why did you send that tweet and who knew what when. when you see all of this and the new reporting about there being a renewed focus on this meeting that came down, my first question that i have is in looking at everything we know about this meeting, is there
more explicit information filling in those blanks. see that for yourself. it wasn t until mark hung up the phone, handed it back to me, i went back to my desk, a couple of minutes later, him and pat came back, possibly eric herschmann to. i am pretty sure eric herschel was there. but i m confident it was path that was there. i remember pat saying something to the effect of, mark, we need to dig something more. they are literally calling for the brace president to be effing hong kong. and mike responded something to the effect of, you heard it, pat, he thinks mike deserves it. he doesn t think they re doing anything wrong. to which path said something, this is effing crazy. we need to be doing something more. he briefly stepped into mark s office. do you remember any