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
The federal appeals court in pennsylvania wrote, quote, charges require specific allegations and proof. we have neither here. a federal judge in wisconsin wrote, quote, the court has allowed the former president the chance to make his case and he has lost on the merits. another judge in michigan claims, quote, nothing but speculation and conjecture that votes for president trump were either destroyed, discarded, or switched to votes for vice president biden. a federal judge in michigan sanctioned nine attorneys including sydney powell, for making frivolous allegations and an election fraud case. describing the case as a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process. recently, a group of distinguished a republican election lawyers, former judges and elected officials, issued a report findings the rules of the
Election steve bannon, a former trump chief law strategists and outside adviser to president trump spoke to a group of his associates from china and said this. will trump will do is declare victory. right, he will declare victory. that does not mean he s the one or, you will just say he s the winner. the democrats have done they vote in mail. so they will have a natural disadvantage, and trump will take advantage of that strategy and aquariums out the winner. we wake up wednesday morning, it is going to be a firestorm. also, if trump is losing by ten or 11:00 a night, it will be even crazier. he will say he stole it. i m a directing the attorney general to shut down all about places in all 50 states, it s going to be dumb.
The evening. also on that day, the secret service was riding its security precautions for the presidents speech at the ellipse the next day. the secret service deputy chief instructed agents to add certain objects to the list of items that would be prohibited at the rally site. including ballistic vests, tactical vests, armored or not, and ballistic helmets. by the morning of january 6th, it was clear that the secret service anticipated violence. it felt like the calm before the storm, one agent predicted in a protective intelligence division chat group. another remarked how agents were watching the crazies on livestream. by 909 that morning, the secret service could also see that many rally goers were assembled outside the security perimeter. one agent emailed, possibly because they have stuff they couldn t come through, but probably be an issue with this crowd. just a thought. by 9:30
Was always so clairvoyant. norquist says during one of these calls, the greatest threat is the direct assault on the capitol. this email, for example, was an alert that the secret service received on december 24th, with the heading, armed and ready, mister president. according to the intelligence, multiple users online were targeting members of congress, instructing others to march into the chambers on january 6th and make sure they know who to fear. in this report received on december 26th, the secret service field office related a tip that had been received by the fbi. according to the source of the tip, the proud boys planned to march, armed, into d. c.. they think that they will have a large enough group to march into d.