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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 b ....
i ll give you this preview, the president didn t do very much, but gleefully watch television during this timeframe. we will present a lot per than that. i can only imagine, i know what i felt as a u.s. congressman and if i was a president sworn to defend the constitution and that includes the legislative branch watching this on television i know i would have been going ballistic to try to save the capitol. he did quite the opposite. s we ve discussed many times on this program in the past, more than three hours, 187 minutes, to be exact, elapsed from the time donald trump leaves the rally on the ellipse to when he tweets out a video asking his supporters to leave the capitol. congressman elaine luria who will be leading thursday s hearing alongside congressman kinzinger said they ll be going through a period of time minute by minute. take a listen. not only was it a situation that he was not doing anything and at one point the infamous tweet at 2:24 he egged peopl ....
president trump. we ll have more on that speech and why he gave it just ahead. plus the january 6th committee releases more of what the former president wouldn t say the day after the insurrection. meanwhile, on capitol hill, covid is complicating crunch time for congress. democrats are running out of time to get things done before a month-long august break. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, july 26th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being here. there are new developments with the justice department s investigation into the january 6th attack. two top aides to former vice president mike pence have testified before a federal grand jury. mark short who was pence s chief of staff and greg jacob, pence s counsel at the white house was subpoenaed by the department of justice, short was with the former vice president during the insurrection. nbc news cameras set up for steve bannon s trial recorded short and his attorney leaving the federal ....
without objection, so ordered. thank you, mr. chairman. i now yield back. the gentleman yields back. so to notice, i now call up select committee s final report, pursuant to section 4-a of house resolution 503. the clerk shall designate the report. final report of the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol. without objection, the report will be considered read and open to amendment at this point. i now recognize the gentlewoman from virginia, ms. luria, for a motion. mr. chairman, i move that the committee favorably report to the house the select committee s final report, which includes the committee s legislative recommendations and criminal referrals of donald j. trump and others. ....
Department of justice, to look into what lawyers might have been telling their clients, or whether tony ornato wasn t being truthful to congress. it is both. all of the above. the report is public. people can read it and come to their conclusions with the information we provided. and left everything in the report. and all of the material we ve gathered that is not in the sensitive for national security, we re going to pass that over to the department of justice, the american public is going to see it, and we made an attempt to draw the conclusions from our work, but you know, the committee thinks they re the most important, and there s thousands of pages of documents there, and we have the department of justice, we hope they will scrutinize them as well as the public to understand, what did these people say. we were only to present you know, a small portion of what we heard from witnesses. and there s a lot more there. and we just wanted to highlight what we thought was something imp ....