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
not just democrats like speaker nancy pelosi and steny hoyer, but republicans like vice president pence, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, majority whip john thune and countless other appointees across the administration. all of them did what president trump was not doing, what he simply refused to do. take a listen. they re taking the north front, staff only. we re not going to be able to hold. the door has been breached. people are gaining access into the capitol. senator schumer is at a secure location. they re locked down in the senate. there has to be some way we can maintain the sense that people have, that there s some security, some confidence that government can function and that we can elect the president of the united states. did we go back into session? did go back into session. but now apparently everybody on the floor is putting on gas masks to prepare for a breach. they re putting on tear gas masks? we need an area for the house members. the
Riot was bearing down on his own vice president, president trump composed and sent a tweet attacking vice president pence, accusing him of cowardice for not unilaterally rejecting electoral college votes for joe biden and simply ending trump the presidency. the impact of that tweet was foreseeable and predictable. if further inflamed the mob, which was chanting, hang mike pence and provoke them to even greater violence. this deliberately decision to further enraged the mob against vice president pence cannot be justified by anything that president trump might have thought about the election. the tweet came precisely at the time pesticide service detail was most seriously concerned for the vice president s physical safety. we ve obtained new documents from the secret service, we are time chats that underscore the threat that they knew that the