supporters to go home. trying to make the case that trump chose to allow his supporters to carry out that deadly assault on the capitol. on january 6th, when lives and our democracy hung in the balance. president trump refused to act because of his selfish desire to stay in power. president trump did not fail to act during the 187 minutes the between leaving the ellipse and telling them up to go home. he chose not to act. one of the committees key points, donald trump knew the capital was under siege 15 minutes after he left the rally. yet, made no effort to stop the violence. at 1:25, president trump went to the private dining room off the oval office. from 1:25 until 4:00 the president stayed in his dining room a hits connected to the oval office fire 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. it would take probably less than 60 seconds from the oval of
187 minutes of what was described as donald trump s dereliction of duty on january 6th. we also heard testimony from two former white house insiders, deputy national security advisor matthew pottinger, and sarah matthews. they both resigned shortly after the insurrection took place. the panel tonight focused on those three plus hours between the time donald trump left the rally, and when he sent out that tweet telling his supporters to go home. trying to make the case that trump chose to allow his supporters to carry out that deadly assault on the capitol. on january 6th, when lives and our democracy hung in the balance. president trump refused to act because of his selfish desire to stay in power. president trump did not fail to act during the 187 minutes the between leaving the ellipse and telling them up to go home. he chose not to act. one of the committees key points, donald trump knew the capital was under siege 15 minutes after he left the rally. yet, made no eff
points, donald trump knew the capital was under siege 15 minutes after he left the rally. yet, made no effort to stop the violence. at 1:25, president trump went to the private dining room off the oval office. from 1:25 until 4:00 the president stayed in his dining room a hits connected to the oval office fire 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. it would take probably less than 60 seconds from the oval office dining room over to the press briefing room he had wanted to make an address from the oval office. we could ve assemble the white house press corps probably in a matter of minutes. and there is still more evidence that as the right descended into violence. trump called absolutely no one to stop it.
oval office fire 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. it would take probably less than 60 seconds from the oval office dining room over to the press briefing room he had wanted to make an address from the oval office. we could ve assemble the white house press corps probably in a matter of minutes. and there is still more evidence that as the right descended into violence. trump called absolutely no one to stop it. so, are you aware of any phone call by the president of the united states to the secretary of defense that? not that i m aware, of no. are you aware of any phone call from the president in the united states to the ag that day? no. are you aware of any phone call from the president to the secretary of homeland security that day. i m not aware of that, no.