the january 6th committee is about to reveal a minute-by-minute count of president trump s actions and inamb inaction after the deadly capitol attack after weeks of testimony by trump s inner circle, investigators are zeroing in on the day of the insurrection and form per president trump himself. the president summoned the mob and lit the flame of this attack. on capitol hill tonight, house investigator are expected to show never-before-seen have you video clips of the attack. the house select committee is promising to give us an inside look with what donald trump was doing, with whom he was talking and what he knew of the unfolding riot at the capitol in real time. it is going to focus on the infamous 187 minutes, a little over three ours, from near the end of trump answer speech ur urging rally goers to head to the capitol and the video in which he told supporters to leave the capitol and go home after the deadly attack was well under way and blood had already been sp
capitol under siege. also tonight, deadly heat across the globe and in america 100 million people under heat alerts in more than two dozen states. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, president biden s covid diagnosis and what comes next. his top covid official the president himself sent out a brief video message about how he s doing, and let s go to jeff zeleny joining us from the white house. how is the president feeling tonight. wolf, officials tell me tonight that president biden is feeling quite well. he s been working remotely, if you will from the residence of the white house throughout the day making telephone calls holding meetings virtually and this comes, thof course, as the first time he s tested positive for covid-19 and he s in the first year and a half of his presidency trying to dodge this, and today he did test positive and he was just on his way to travelin
the office of president of the united states, and to the best of their ability, preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states. the president also assumes the constitutional duty to take care, that our nations laws be faithfully executed, and as the commander in chief of our military. our hearings have shown the many ways of which president trump tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power in the days leading up to january 6th. with each step of his plan, he betrayed his oath of office, and was derelict in his duty. tonight, we will further examine president trump s actions on the day of the attack on the capital. early that afternoon, president trump instructed tens of thousands of supporters at and near the rally, a number of whom he knew were armed with
and under attack. at 1:25 pm, president trump went to the private dining room, off the oval office. from 1:25 pm until 4:00, the president stayed in his dining room, just to give you a sense of where the dining room is situated in the west wing, let s take a look at this floor plan. the dining room is connected to the oval office by a short hallway. witnesses told us that, on january 6th, president trump sat in his usual spot, at the head of the table, facing a television hanging on the wall. we know from the employee that the tv was tuned to fox news all afternoon. here, you can see fox news on the tv, showing coverage of the joint session airing that day at 1:25 pm. other witnesses confirmed president trump was in the dining room with the tv on, for more than two and a half hours. there was no official record of what president trump did while in the dining room. on the screen, the presidential kellogg from january 6th.
the 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, afterwards, on january 6th, when he knew that the mob was heavily armed and angry, he commanded the mob to go to the capital, and he emphatically commended the heavily armed mob to fight like. for the weeks between november election, and january 6th, donald trump was a force to be reckoned with. he shrugs off the factuality and illegality correct sober advice of his knowledgeable and sensible advisers. instead, he recklessly blazed a path of lawlessness and corruption that cost of which democracy be.