the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess pursuant the house deposition authority regulation ten, the chair announces the committee s approval to release the deposition material presented during today s hearing. good afternoon and may god bless the united states of america. four months ago, this committee started to present our findings to you, the american people. from the beginning, we understood that some people watching those proceedings would wrongly assume that the committee s investigation was a partisan exercise. that s why i asked those who are skeptical of our work to simply listen. to listen to the evidence, to hear the testimony with an open mind. and to let the facts speak for themselves before reaching a judgment. over the course of these hearings, the evidence has proven that there were a multi part plan led by former p
Arrested a man with a rifle in front of the world war ii memorial. these agents remarked on the number of weapons that had been seized that they, speculating that the situation could get worse. with so many weapons found so far, you wonder how many are unknown, one agent wrote at 12:36 am. could be sporty after dark. at 12:47 pm, another agent responded, no doubt. the people at the ellipse saw that they are moving to the capitol after the potus speech. as the documents we received made clear, the secret service was aware the weapons possessed by those gathered at rallies in d. c., as early as the evening before. take this document, for instance, which details multiple arrests in the crowds demonstrating on january 5th. those arrests were handguns, high capacity feeding devices,