or call off the mob. the committee really driving home the point that he not only failed to act but chose not to. did you ever hear the president ask for the national guard? no. did you ask him ask for law enforcement response? no. so as somebody who works in the national security space, if there were going to be troops present or called up for a rally in washington, d.c. for example, is that something that you would have been aware of? yeah, i would. we also learned during the committee s eighth hearing that there will be a season two so to speak. ryan nobles has more on last night s revelations from the capitol. reporter: there is no doubt that the january 6 select committee had been building toward that hearing on thursday night. they viewed it as their most important hearing to indicate. en en date. and one of the reasons that they moved it to primetime and completely focused on that 187 minutes where donald trump in their mind did not do enough to stop
the conversations, the chaos in the west wing that day. things we had never heard and things we had never seen. just a few of the new developments. testimony that trump never made a single call to law enforcement or to the pentagon. testimony that the security detail for vice president pence was calling loved ones, worried they wouldn t make it out alive. testimony that trump initially resisted using the word peace while tweeting about the riot while it was happening. audio of rioters interpreting trump s tweet in realtime seeming to suggest it gave them a green light to attack the capitol. and, quote, mike pence let me down. those were the last five words that an aide heard trump say that day before he left the west wing to go to the residence for the night. nothing about the attack according to the committee, just his grievances with mike pence. and one of the most revealing moments of the hearing, the committee showed outtakes from the speech that the former president
the committee compiling this comprehensive and compelling minute-by-minute account of trump s inaction, and they documented the pleas from everyone inside and outside the white house for trump to condemn the violence. instead of telling support force back down supporters to back down, trump spent time in his private dining room watching the attack on tv until he finally and reluctantly sent out a video message that advisers said still missed the mark. president trump did not fail to act, he chose not to act. reporter: the house select committee investigating january 6th making the case that then-president trump betrayed his oath of office during the capitol attack. a white house security official whose identity was concealed by the panel details the security concerns in allowing trump to go to the capitol after his rally. the president wanted to lead thousands of people to the capitol. i think that was enough grounds for us to be alarmed. reporter: the committee sai
and new day continues right now. so the hearing the january 6th committee has been building up to tonight in primetime. i m john berman, brianna is off, chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is here. they really have been building up to this. we have a huge day ahead of us. people are waiting to see what are they going to say about that black hole of time of what happened on january 6th in the oval office. and they say they have new information. the focus is going to be the 187 minutes during which former president donald trump was at the white house and this mob of largely trump supporters storming the u.s. capitol. the committee will present a minute by minute account of what they call donald trump s dereliction of duty. what he did not do despite pleas from his aides, allies, his family. you are going to hear that phrase dereliction of duty we expect quite a bit. tonight is also going to feature never before seen outtakes of this moment where former pre