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
rioters. as trump pressured him to stop the vote certification of the 2020 election. it was a move trump knew was illegal as several witnesses revealed just yesterday. let s get to cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez. what more are you learning about next week s hearing? well, the committee, the january 6th committee is trying to nail down the list of witnesses that they have from the former justice department, former justice department officials under former president trump. and right now we know that they have slated they were key in standing up to the president. he was trying to essentially use the justice department to endorse his claims that there was vote fraud, and in the end, to try to overturn the election results. one witness that we don t know we know the committee was looking for, and it appears will not be showing up is pat sip pat cipollone. it would have been unusual to see a former white house counsel sitting before this committee. it appears
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
Arguments he was making. so when you add up no factual basis, no legal basis, powerful proof, yes, that deepens the criminal exposure that as we also heard yesterday, a federal judge has already said is likely for trump and eastman. and paul, committee membering a lar went through a timeline yesterday, showed how president trump sent a tweet attacking vice president pence, the one saying he didn t have courage, after the president was already told by mark meadows that was there was violence breaking out at the capitol. he said immediately after the tweet the crowds inside and outside the capitol surged and overwhelmed police. how strong is that evidence? and in tieing the former president of the actions of the insurrectionists? well, i think one of the things that this committee has done a good job of showing is that the insurrectionists at least thought that they were