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
Him that my personal viewpoint was that the electoral college had met, which is the system that our country is set under to elect a president and vice president, and i believed at that point that the means for him to pursue litigation was probably closed. and you recall what his response, if any, was. he disagreed. secretary of labor, jean scalia, the son of late justice scalia, explain to trump in mid december the situation clearly. so, i put a call into the president. i made a call on the 13th, we spoke, i believe, on the 14th. in which i conveyed to him that i thought that it was time for him to acknowledge that president biden had prevailed in the election. but