I received the initial two shots and all of the boosters. So 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 the vice chair to provide preside over this in his hearings. Over the last month and a half, the select committee has told the story of a president who did everything in his power to overturn an election. He lied, he believed, he betrayed his oath. He tried to destroy our democratic institutions. When he heard that the 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. In the weeks before the election, donald trump was a force to be reckoned with. He glossed over the advice of his knowledgeable and printable advisors. Instead, he recklessly blazed a path of lawlessness and corruption, the cost of which democracy be damaged. Then he stopped. For 187 minutes on january 6, this m
Representative bennie thompson, its going chair the hearing remotely because he has covid19. But that committee is expected to piece together what happened in those 187 minutes between when the former president gave his speech and then his final prerecorded video when he asked protesters to go home. That video was tweeted out later on the afternoon. Theyre going to go through a timeline of those 187 minutes to former white house officials who served under the president will be testifying tonight. Former National Security Council Member Matthew Pottinger and onetime Deputy White House press secretary Sarah Matthews will both be testifying live to see liz cheney and adam kinzinger. Theres a lot current of the south bay and the red there off filing in adam schiff of california. And when this starts will certainly be sure to bring you their life. So this is what the committee is calling their most compelling evidence yet theyre going to be laying out what the president did and did not do d
Good evening and thank you for joining us. Our live coverage of tonights prime time hearing from the january 6th committee, nearly a year long investigation. But tonights hearing will focus on something very specific. Were told the committee will laser in on what former President Trump did not do as rioters were attacking the capitol. Those inside the white house describing the former white house watching it all on tv and, they say, failing to act. Members of the committee calling it a dereliction of duty. Theyll focus on the 187 minutes from the time the president finished speaking on the ellipse about 1 10 p. M. Eastern, where he urged supporters to go to the capitol. Of course testimony already the president knew some of those supporters were armed. And then the hours that went by until the former president posted that video at about 4 17 p. M. Telling those at the capitol to go home. We love you. Youre very special. Tonight we will hear indepth where the president was at the white
I received the initial two shots and all of the boosters. So 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 the vice chair to provide preside over this in his hearings. Over the last month and a half, the select committee has told the story of a president who did everything in his power to overturn an election. He lied, he believed, he betrayed his oath. He tried to destroy our democratic institutions. When he heard that the 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. In the weeks before the election, donald trump was a force to be reckoned with. He glossed over the advice of his knowledgeable and printable advisors. Instead, he recklessly blazed a path of lawlessness and corruption, the cost of which democracy be damaged. Then he stopped. For 187 minutes on january 6, this m
Lived it. I could hear the din of the rioters in the building. The noise from the rioters became audible, at which point we recognized maybe they had gotten into the building. Now, the january 6th Committee Makes its Closing Argument to the American People. Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. It was one of the most difficult days in american history. For more than a year the january 6th committee e s been investigating why and how a mob of thousands stormed the Capitol Building. They tried to make the case it was former President Trump who was directly responsible for the assault. Tonight will be the last in this series of hearings. Their Closing Argument for this phase as they Just Announced more hearings in the fall. For most of the previous hearings, the focus has been on what mr. Trump did. Tonight the focus will be on what he did not do during the 187 minutes after he spoke to the crowd on january 6th. Until the president finally tweeted out a video telling his supporter