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
Is wrong. i had no right to overturn the election. the presidency belongs to the american people, and the american people alone. frankly, there is no idea more un-american than the notion that any one person could choose the american president. make no mistake, president trump knew that what he was demanding vice president pence do was illegal. he was informed of this repeatedly and specifically on january 4th. even his lawyer, john eastman, admitted in front of president trump, that this plan would break the law by violating the electoral count act. did john eastman ever admit, or as you know, in front of the president, that his proposal would violate the electoral count act? i believe he did on the fourth.