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
An off-the-record movement to the capitol. the people sworn to protect the safety of the president of the united states and who routinely put themselves in harm s way, where convinced that this was a bad idea. secret service documents also revealed how agents were poised to take president trump to the capitol later that afternoon. agents were instructed to non protective gear, and prepare for a movement. a few minutes later, they were told that the president would leaf or capital into hours. was not until 1:55 pm, the president lead secret service agent told them to stand down. we are not doing it out er to the capitol. by, then riders have breached the capitol and were violently attacking the efforts of the brave men and women in lawson forsman trying to resist the mob. president trump may not have known to the capitol on january 6th, but what he did from the white house could not be justified. while congressional leaders, both democrats and republicans, worked with vice president