crowd was angry because he had stoked that anger. he knew that they believed the election had been rigged and stolen because he had told them, falsely, that it had been rigged and stolen. by the time he incited that angry mob to march on the capitol, he knew they were armed and dangerous, all the better to stop the peaceful transfer of power. mr. chairman, i yelled back. >> gentleman yields back. at this point in our meeting, we will take a brief recess, pursuant to the order of the committee of today, the chair declares the committee and recess for a period of approximately 10 minutes. [gavel bangs]

[gavel bangs] >> the chair recognizes mr. argo are for an opening statement. >> on the morning of january 6, president trump knew that the crowd was angry he knew that they were armed and dangerous and he knew that they were going to the capitol. it's important to understand the link the president was willing to go to physically be at the capitol because it was part of his strategy to disrupt congress and to stay in power. and email was circulated among intelligence officials,

including secret service is intelligent officials adjusting communications among rally goers that symptom that specifically contemplate and violence. trump has given us marching orders, one post wrote. basically, if you are east of the mississippi, you can and should be there. advance on the capitol. keep your guns hidden, don't fuck around, another 50 for sidearm per person. what is clear from this record is at the white house had more than enough warning to warrant stopping any plan for an ellipse rally, and certainly for stopping any march to the capitol. as evidence from our prior hearings have suggested, the president was aware of this information. but despite awareness for potential for violence and weapons among the crowd, the ellipse event, nevertheless, went forward and donald trump

instructed the angry crowd, some of who were armed, to march to the capitol. as my colleague mr. schiff just described, the secret service reported that thousands in the crowd near the washington monument would not enter the rally area because magnetometers used in screening attendees would've detect any prohibited items they carried. mr. trump knew this. secret service had told them about it this morning. even in spite of these warnings, cassidy hutchinson overheard the president say this shortly before he took the stage. >> he wanted full and he will was angry that we were letting people through with weapons in the conversation where i overheard the president say something to the effect of, i think that they have weapons, they are not here to hurt me, take it away. let the people in, take the f-

ing mags away. >> when he went on stage president trump led his supporters in the rally site. donald trump: i would love to have of those tens of thousands of people would be allowed, the military, the secret service, we want to thank you and the police law enforcement, you are doing a great job, but i would love it if they could be allowed to come appear with us. is that possible, can you just let them come up please? >> president trump then told his supporters to march to the capitol. let's pause at this point to consider president trump state of mind, his motivation at this moment. by that point it was known to secret service that members of the crowd were armed, president trump had been told, and there was no doubt that president trump knew what he was going to do, sending an angry mob, a

number were clad in tactical gear in military garb armed with various weapons at the capitol. there's no scenario where that action is benign, and there's no scenario where an american president should've engaged in that conduct. it did not matter whether president trump believed the election had been stolen or not, this cannot be justified on any basis for any reason. you may also recall testimony from our summer hearings regarding mr. trump's efforts to lead the mob to the capitol himself in this angry -- when the secret service told him it was far too dangerous for him to go. as we detailed in testimony from the metropolitan police and white house personnel, information about altercation was widely known, so widely known that one former white house employee with national

security responsibilities explained that this information was in fact a watercooler talk in the white house complex. as that professional told us, they remember hearing in the days after january 6, how angry the president was when he was in a limo that afternoon. that professional also testified that they were specifically informed of the president tsai rate behavior in the suv by mr. or nardo in his office. it was mr. engel with -- in that office. they'd expressed to me that the president was irate, you know, on the drive up. mr. engel did not drift -- did not deny the fact that the president was irate. that corresponds closely with the testimony you saw this summer from the metropolitan police officer who was in the motorcade and from multiple sources. additionally, after concluding its review of the additional secret service communications

from january 5 and january 6, the committee will be recalling witnesses and conducting further depositions based on that material. following that activity we will provide even greater detail in our final report. and i will also note this, the committee is reviewing testimony regarding potential obstruction on this issue, including testimony about advice given not to tell the committee about this specific topic. we will address this matter in our report. we also want to remind you now of how security professionals working in the white house complex and who reported to national security officials responded when they learned that mr. trump contended to lead the mob to the capitol. [video clip] >> completely honest, we were all in the state of shock because, one, i think the

feasibility of actually doing it, and we all knew what that meant, that this was no longer a rally, that this was going to move to something else physically walking to the capitol. i don't know if you want to use the word insurrection. whatever, we knew that this would move from a normal democratic public event into something else. why were we alarmed? because we didn't want to believe the president would send tens of thousands of people to the capitol. that was enough to be alarmed. [end of video clip] rep. auilar: president trump was still considering traveling to the capitol. he knew that a violent riot is underway at the capitol. he was aware of the ongoing lawlessness that his motorcade was held on west executive avenue outside the white house because he still wanted to join the crowd. here's kayleigh mcenany, the

white house press secretary describing the exchange she had with the president as soon as he arrived back at the white house. [video clip] >> to the best of my recollection i recall him saying that he wanted to physically walk and be a part of the march, and saying that he would be there if he needed to, like in the presidential limo. [end of video clip] rep. aguilar: from the secret service, the select committee has obtained important new evidence on this issue. it shows how frantic this hour must have been for the secret service, scrambling to get the president of the united states to back down from a dangerous and reckless decision. that put people in harm's way. take a look at the secret service email from 1:19 p.m. on january 6, the minute that president trump got out of the presidential vehicle back to the white house. as soon as the president left

his motorcade, leadership from the secret service contacted abe angle, the lead agent for the presidential detail, and warned him that they were concerned about an otr and off the record movement to the capitol. the people sworn to protect the safety of the president of the united states and who routinely put themselves in harm's way, were convinced that this was a bad idea. secret service documents also revere -- reveal how agents took president trump to the capitol later that afternoon. agents were instructed to don their protective gear and prepare for a movement. a few minutes later, they were told the presidentould be for the capitol in two hours. it wasn't until 1:55 p.m. the presidents lead secret service agent told them to stand down, we are not doing notr to the capitol. by then riders had breached the capitol and were violently attacking the efforts of the brave men and women in law

enforcement trying to resist the mob. president trump may not have gone to the capitol on january 6, but what he did from the white house cannot be justified. while congressional leaders, both democrats and republicans, worked with vice president pence to try and address the violence, president trump refused urgent please for help from nearly everyone around him. and what he did do only made the situation worse. strict to chairman, i yield back. chair thompson: the jetta him and yields back, the chair recognizes the gentleman from maryland for an opening statement. rep. raskin: the president was still exerting his supporters to go fight like hell around the first wave of writers reached barricades. secret service documents we recently received give a timeline of precisely what the white house new and when.

at 1:19 the president's emergency operation sent in email to the national security and military advisors that the president and vice president, informing them of "hundreds of trump supporters storm through metal barricades at the back of the capitol building about 1:00 p.m. wednesday, running past security guards and breaking fences." when the president returned to the white house around 1:20, he entered the oval office and was told about the onset of violence at the capitol. from that point until approximately 4:00 p.m. over the next two hours and 40 minutes, the president stayed in the white house dining room attached to the oval office and watched this unprecedented assault take place at the capitol. the testimony from several members of the presidents white house staff establishing that president trump refused entreaties from his closest advisors and family members, to tell his supporters to stand

down and leave the capitol. here's the testimony of president trump's white house counsel. [video clip] >> i can't talk about conversations with the president but i can generically say that i said people need to be told there needs to be a public announcement asked that they need to leave the capitol. >> and could you let us know approximately when you said that? >> approximately when? almost immediately after i found out people were getting into the capitol or approaching the capitol in a way that was violent. >> you did not want people to leave the capitol? >> on the staff? >> in the white house. >> i can't think of anybody on that day who did not want people to get out of the capitol once

the violence started. no. >> what about the president? >> will, she said the staff, so i answered. >> i said in the white house. >> i'm sorry, i apologize. i thought who else on the staff. i can't reveal the communications. but obviously i think, you know -- yeah. [end of video clip] rep. raskin: mr. cipollone's testimony is cooperated by multiple white house members, including cassidy hutchinson. here's now -- here's ms.

hutchinson describing when she heard from mark meadows. [video clip] >> i said something to the effect of, you heard him pat, he doesn't think that he is doing anything wrong. [end of video clip] rep. raskin: the former white house employee with national security duty similarly recalled an exchange between mr. cipollone and eric hirschman about president trump's inaction against the mob assault underway the capitol. mr. hirschman said something to mr. cipollone and relayed, you know, the president didn't want anything done. throughout this time, some of the president's most important political allies, family members and senior staff all begged him to tell his supporters to disperse and go home. they included sean hannity, laura ingraham, and other allies at fox news.

his son donald trump, jr.. house minority leader kevin mccarthy. others congress at officials in the branch made appeals to donald trump, which he rejected and he ignored. this led committee introduced several people who were in the dining room with donald trump that afternoon, and every single one of those witnesses told us that he was watching the violent battles rage on television. he did not call his secretary of defense or the national guard, the chief of the capitol of police or the chief of the metropolitan police department. [video clip] >> to your knowledge, was the president and that private dining room the whole time that the attack on the capitol was going on, or did he ever go to the oval office to the white house situation room, anywhere else? >> to my recollection he was always in the dining room. >> during that brief encounter. >> i think they were.

>> do you know whether he was watching tv in the dining room when you talked to him on january 6? >> it's my understanding he was watching television. >> when you are in the dining room in these discussions, was violence of the capitol visible on the screen? >> yes. rep. raskin: the president watched the bloody attack unfold on fox news from his dining room. members of congress and other government officials stepped into the gigantic leadership void created by the president's chilling and steady passivity that day. what you are about to see is previously unseen footage of congressional leaders, both republican and democrats, as they were taken to a secure location during the riot. you will see how everyone involved was working actively to stop the violence, to get federal law enforcement deployed to the scene put down the

violence and secure the capitol complex. not just democrats, like speaker nancy pelosi and house majority leader -- but republicans like vice president pence, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, majority whip 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. [video clip] [chanting] we want trump. >> we are starting to get surrounded. they are taking the north staff holdings. >> we are not going to be able to hold. >> the door has been breached. people are gaining access into the capitol. >> we have got to get to the senate proceedings.

[chanting "usa"] >> they are in a secure location and locked down in the senate. >> there has to be somewhere we can maintain the sense that people have that there is some security or some competence -- confidence that government can function in that we can elect a president of the united states. did we go back into session? >> we did go back into session but apparently everybody on the floor is putting on gas masks to prepare for a breach. i'm trying to get more information. >> they are putting on their tear gas masks? i can't. >> house members are all walking over now through the tunnels. >> we are coming and if you don't bring her out.

>> we have some senators who are still in their hideaways that need massive personnel now, can you get them in their? >> i have something to say, mr. secretary, i will call the mayor of washington, d.c. right now and see what the department has mentioned. >> officer down. get him up. bull him up. pull him up. >> governor, i don't know if you have been approached about the national guard and we were speaking to governor hogan, but i still think he probably needs the ok of the federal government in order to come into another jurisdiction. thank you.

oh my god, they are just breaking windows and all kinds. they said somebody was shot, it's just horrendous, and all at the instigation of the president of the united states. ok, thank you governor, i appreciate what you are doing. if you don't mind, i'd like to stay in touch. thank you. >> virginia guard has been called in. >> governor northam said, they sent 200 state police and a unit of the national guard. they are breaking windows and going and, obviously ransacking our offices and all the rest of that. that's nothing. the concern we have about personal safety is that it transcends everything. but the fact is, on any given day, they are breaking the law in many different ways. quite frankly, most of it at the

instigation of the president of the united states. and now, if he could get somebody. >> why don't you get the president to tell them to leave the capitol, mr. attorney general. a public statement, they should all leave. [chanting "usa"] >> this should not be we are waiting for so-and-so. we need them there now, whatever you got. >> you also have troops at andrews air force base, other military bases. we need active duty, national guard, how soon in the future can you have the place cleaned out? >> i don't want to speak for the leadership, we are executing the operations. because therapy is on the

ground. >> just a point for a moment, for the hotel or some other agencies. let me say, you can get people there as you make the plan. >> we are trying to figure out how we can get this job done. we talked to mitch about it earlier. he's not in the room right now but he worked with us earlier and said do you want to expedite this, and hopefully we could could find to just one complete and that we could just move forward with the rest of the states. they wish to do it at the capitol, but we are being told very directly that it's going to

take dates for the capitol to be ok again. if got really bad reports about the house floor with defecation and all that as well. i don't think that that's hard to clean up, but i do think it is, from a security standpoint, making sure that everybody is out of the building and how long will that take? i just got off with the vice president. >> i got off with the vice president elect. >> what we left the conversation with, because he said he had the impression from mitch that mitch wants to get everybody back to do it there. i said, we are getting a counterpoint that it could take time to clean up the pooh-pooh that they are making all over, literally and figuratively, the capitol. and that it could take days to get back. >> i at the capitol building, i'm literally standing with the

chief of police of the u.s. capitol police. he just informed me what you will hear through official channels paul irving, your sergeant at arms, will inform you that their best information is that they believe that the house in the senate will be able to reconvene in roughly an hour. this sergeant at arm's will be in touch about the process for getting members back into the building. >> thank you vice president. [end of video clip] rep. raskin: in this video you just saw senator chuck schumer urging jeff rosen to get president trump to call off the rioters. of course acting ag rosen did take action to defend the government, as did many other officials, but congressional leadership recognized on a

bipartisan basis that president trump was the only person who could get the mop to end its violent seizure of the congress, leave the capitol and go home. here senator mcconnell speaking after january 6 about how president trump abandoned his duties and failed to do his job. [video clip] >> it was obvious that only president trump could end this. he was the only one. former aides publicly said you have to do so. loyal allies frantically calling the administration. the president did not act swiftly, he did not do his job, he didn't take steps of federal law to be faithfully executed an order restored. no. [end of video clip] rep. raskin: in the midst of

this violent chaos, kevin mccarthy implored donald trump to tell his supporters in the mop to leave the capitol, and when that did not work mccarthy called trump's adult children to try to get them to intercede with trump to call off the insurrectionary violence. in our prior hearings we showed you a description of what mccarthy told republican congressman about his conversation with trump during the violence. another witness, mick mulvaney, president trump's chief of staff, has also come forward and cooperated her shocking account. >> i asked kevin mccarthy, who's a republican leader about this, he finally got through to donald trump and he said, you have got to get on tv, you have got to get on twitter, you've got to call these people off. do you know what the president said to him, he's at kevin, these are my people. and kevin responded and said,

no, they literally just came through my office windows and my staff are running for cover and running for their lives. you need to call them off. in the president's response to kevin was chilling. he said, well, kevin, i guess they are more upset about the election then you are. and you see reports of kevin mccarthy in the president having basically a swearing conversation. that's because the president was basically saying, i'm ok with this. [video clip] >> i had a conversation at some point in the day or week after the riot. it was very similar to the conversation she had about how he told them asked the president to stop in the president said something along the lines of, maybe people were just were angry and more upset. i had a conversation similar to that with kevin in the days and weeks after.

[end of video clip] rep. raskin: and we know how kevin mccarthy described president trump's -- and private and in public. [video clip] >> the president bears responsibility for wednesday's attack. he should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. these facts require immediate action for president trump. except the share of responsibility, quell the unrest, and ensure president-elect biden is able to successfully begin his term. [end of video clip] >> but let me be very clear to all of you and i have been clear to the president. he bears responsibility for his words and actions, no if's, ants or but's. i asked him today if you hold responsibility for what happened, that he fell bad about what happened. he told me he has the responsibility for what happened.

and he needs to acknowledge that. rep. raskin: 2:24 p.m. knowing the riot was bearing down on his own vice president, president trump composed and sent a tweet attacking president -- vice president pence, accusing him of cowardice for not rejecting electoral college votes for joe biden and simply handing trump presidency. the impact of that tweet was foreseeable and predictable. it further inflamed the mop which was chanting, hang mike pence, and provoked them to even greater violence. this deliberate decision to further enrage the mob against vice president pence cannot be justified by anything that president trump might've thought about the election. the tweet came precisely at the time pence secret service detail was now seriously concerned for the vice president's physical safety. we've obtained new documents from the secret service,

real-time chat that underscored the threat they knew vice president would be facing because of the presidents escalating incitement of the mop. after trumps tweet, one agent in the secret service intelligence division immediately warned, potus just tweeted about pence, probably not going to be good for pence. another agent reported that dramatic impact of trumps anti-pence tweet on his followers. potus said he lacked courage, over 24,000 likes in under two minutes. employees at twitter were nervously monitoring the situation, they knew that certain twitter users were rioting at the capitol and tweeting about it at the same time. as the afternoon progressed, the company detected a surge in the platform, including lines of lethal incitement like execute mike pence. listen to this former twitter

employee who first came to the committee anonymously, but has now bravely agreed to be named because she wants to speak out about the magnitude of the threats facing our people. [video clip] >> and you are also seeing at the platform at the time that was threatening towards the vice president #kyl mike pence. anika they were literally calling for his execution. -- anika: they were literally calling for his execution. it was individuals who were constructing gallows, who were already willing, able and wanting to execute someone and they were looking for someone to fill, now the individual would begin this coup and is now pointing the finger at another individual while they are ready

to do this. [end of video clip] rep. raskin: here's a small sample of the reaction that president trump's fan the flame tweets provoked among capitol rioters in real-time. [video clip] >> what percentage of the crowd is going to the capitol? >> 100%, it has spread like wildfire that pence has betrayed us and everybody is marching on the capitol. all millions of us. it's insane. >> mike pence, trader! -- traitor! >> i keep hearing that mike pence has screwed up. that's a word. i keep hearing reports that mike pence has screwed us. [end of video clip] rep. raskin: between 2:30 and 2:35, within 10 minutes of president trumps tweet, thousands of rioters overran the line that the metropolitan

police civil disturbance unit was holding on the west side of the capitol. this was the first time in the history of the metropolitan police department that a security line like that had ever been broken. president trump's conduct that day was so shameful and so outrageous, that it prompted numerous mentors of the white house staff and other trump appointees to resign. in prior hearings you've heard matt patton sure a deputy white house press secretary sarah matthews explain why they felt compelled to resign on that day. since then we've spoken to more high-ranking officials like president trumps envoy to northern ireland in mick mulvaney and transportation secretary elaine chao, who resigned after the protest of trumps misconduct and to dissociate themselves from his role in the violence. take a listen to what they had to say. [video clip] >> i was stunned by violence and stunned by the presidents

apparent indifference to the violence. >> i felt like he failed in a critical time to be the leader that the nation needed. >> i think the events at the capitol, however they occurred, were shocking. and it was something that, as i mentioned in my statement, that i could not put aside. and at a particular point, the events were such that it was impossible for me to continue, given my personal values and my philosophy. i came as an immigrant to this country, i believe in this country. i believe in a peaceful transfer of power, i believe in democracy. so. it was a decision that i made on my own. [end of video clip] rep. raskin: was security citizens begin to arrive at the capitol and the tide turned against the insurrection, president trump finally gave his

painfully belated and -- instruction at four: 17 p.m. after multiple hours of riding and more than 100 serious injuries suffered by our law enforcement officers, there crowd finally began to disperse, listen carefully to what they said as they decided to leave the capitol. [video clip] >> we are delivering the president's message, donald trump has asked everybody to go home. >> he says go home. [end of video clip] rep. raskin: finally, at 6:01, president trump tweeted again, not to condemn the mass violence, but to excuse and glorify a. he made it clear that he considered the violence perfectly foreseeable and predictable. check it out.

these are the things and events that happened when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously, viciously stripped away from -- you have been badly, unfairly tweeted -- treated for so long. these are the things that happen. trump was telling us that the vice president, the congress and all the injured and wounded cops, some of whom are with us today, got what was coming to us. according to trump, january 6 should not be a day that lives in shame and infamy in our history, but rather in glory. remember this day forever, he wrote proudly as if you were talking about the day or the battle of yorktown. trump did nothing to stop the deadly violence for obvious reasons, he thought it was all justified, he incited it and he supported it. [video clip] >> would have been possible for the president to walk down the podium and talk to the nation at any time between 12:00 and 4:17

with the video statement? >> would have been possible? yes, it would have been possible. >> the president had wanted to make a statement and address the american people. he could have been on camera almost instantly. and conversely, the white house press corps has offices that are located directly behind the briefing room. and so, if he had wanted to make an address from the oval office, we could have assembled the white house press corps probably in a matter of minutes to get them into the oval for him to do an on camera address. [end of video clip] rep. raskin: mr. chairman, nothing in law justifies the president's failure to act. [video clip] >> and i assume you also would agree the president had an obligation to take care that the laws being faithfully executed? >> that is one of the president's obligations, correct. [end of video clip] rep. raskin: mr. chairman, in

numerous places, our constitution strongly opposes the insurrection and rebellion. article one gives congress the power to call forth the militia to suppress insurrection. section three of the 14th amendment, disqualified from holding federal and state office, anyone who his sworn an oath to defend the constitution but betrays it by engaging in insurrection will rebel. it was president lincoln at the start of the civil war in 1861, who best explained why democracy rejected insurrection. insurrection, he said, is a war upon the first principle of popular government, the right of the people. american democracy belongs to all the american people, not to a single man. thank you, mr. chairman, i yield back. chair thompson: the gentleman yields back. during this committees first hearing in july of last year,

our witnesses were for police officers who helped us riots of january 6. we ask them what they hoped to see the committee accomplish over the course of our investigation. the officer wanted to know why the rioters were made to believe that the election process was rigged. the officer asked us to look into the actions and activities that resulted in the days events. the officer was concerned about whether anyone in power had arose. officer dunn put it simply, get to the bottom of what happened. we work for more thin a year to get those answers. we have conducted more than a thousand interviews and depositions. we received and reviewed hundreds of thousands of pages of documents thanks to the tireless work of our members and

investigators. we have left no doubt, none that donald trump led an effort to upend american democracy that directly resulted in the violence of january 6. he tried to take away the voice of the american people in choosing their president and replace the will of the voters with his will to remain in power. he is the one person at the center of the story of what happened on january 6. we want to hear from him, the committee needs to do everything in our power to tell the most complete story possible and provide recommendations to help ensure nothing like january 6 ever happens again. we need to be fair and thorough and gain a full context for the evidence we've obtained. but the need for this committee

to hear from donald trump goes beyond our fact-finding. this is a question about accountability to the american people. he must be accountable. he is required to answer for his actions, he is required to answer to those police officers who put their lives and bodies on the line to defend our democracy. he is required to answer to those millions of americans whose votes he wanted to throw out as part of his scheme to remain in power. and whatever is underway to ensure this accountability on the law, this committee will demand a full accounting to every american person of the events of january 6. so it is our obligation to seek donald trump's testimony. there's precedent in american history for congress to compare the testimony of a president.

there is also precedent for presidents to provide testimony and documentary evidence to congressional investigators. we also recognize that a subpoena to a former president is a serious and extraordinary action. that's why we want to take this step in full view of the american people, especially because the subject matter at issue is so important to the american people and the stakes are so high for our future and our democracy. and so, i recognize vice chair, ms. cheney of wyoming, to offer emotion. vice chair cheney: mr. chairman, pursuant to today's notice, i sent to the desk a committee resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. >> the clerk will report the resolution. >> committee resolution one resolved that the chairman be and is hereby directed to

subpoena donald day -- donald j. trump in connection with the january 6 attack on the united states cap pursuant to section five c for of house resolution 202-748-800103 and clause two m of the rules of house of representatives. >> the gentlewoman from wyoming is recognized for her resolution. >> thank you, mr. chairman. our committee now has the information to answer many of the critical questions posed by congress at the outset. we have sufficient information to consider criminal referrals, from multiple individuals and to recommend a range of legislative proposals to guard against another january 6. a key task remains. we must seek the testimony under oh of january 6 central player. more than 30 witnesses in our investigation have invoked their fifth amendment right against

self-incrimination. several of those did so specifically in response to questions about their dealings with donald trump directly. here are a few examples. this is roger stone with oath keepers at the willard hotel on the morning of january 6, here's mr. stone testifying before our committee. did you speak to president trump on his cell phone on january 6 or generally fifth. >> once up and i will assert my fifth amendment right to decline to answer question. this is general michael flynn walking with old keepers on december 12 2020. here is general flynn's testimony before our committee. >> you general flynn talked to president trump at any point on january 6, 2021?

>> here's john eastman fraudulently instructing angry protesters at the vice president could change the election outcome on january 6. later on the same day dr. eastman acknowleed in writing that donald trump knew what he was attempting was illegal. here he is testifying before the committee. >> president trump authorize you to discuss publicly the january 6, 2021 conversation. so direct conversation you had with the president the ad states, you will not discuss those same conversations with this committee. >> yes. >> here is jeff clark who conspired with donald trump to corrupt the department of justice. president trump wanted to appoint jeff clark as acting attorney general and as you can

see in this call log we obtained from the national archive he did so. here is mr. clark testifying before our committee. >> when did you first start -- talk with muster president trump? like >> the fifth. did you discuss with president trump allocations of the law in the 2020 election? >> fifth. >> other witnesses have gone to an arm's-length to a -- enormous lengths to avoid testifying for donald trump, steve bannon has been tried by jury of his peers for contempt of congress, he is scheduled to be sentenced for this crime later this month. criminal proceedings regarding peter navarro continue. mark meadows, donald trump's former chief of staff has refused to testify based on executive of which the committee's litigation with him continues. mr. chairman at some point the department of justice may

unearth facts about these and other witnesses are currently concealing. our duty today is to our country, and our children and our constitution. we are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion and every american is entitled to those answers so we can act now to protect our public so this afternoon, i'm offering this resolution that the committee direct the chairman to issue a subpoena for relevant documents and testimony under oh from donald john trump in connection with the january 6 on the united states capital. thank you, mr. chairman i yield back. >> if there is no further debate the question is on agreeing to the resolution those in favor will say aye.

>> aye. those opposed will say no. in the opinion of the chair. >> i request a recorded vote. >> a recorded vote is requested, the clerk will call the roll. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> the clerk will record the vote. >> mr. chairman on this boat there are nine ayes and zero knows.

>> without objection a motion to reconsider is on the table. the chair requests that those in the hearing room remain seated until a capitol police has extorted members from the room. without objections, the committee stands adjourned. >> tonight republican senator

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