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About what the president advisers were urging him to do during the attack. you described roughly three different camps of thought inside the white house that day. can you tell us about those? >> there is a group of individuals that were strongly urging him to take immediate and swift action. i would classify white house counsels office, mr. herschmann, miss ivanka trump in that category of really working to get him to take action and pleading with him to take action. there is a more neutral grou...

Reaction. i remember him saying all right, something to the effect of how much longer does the president have left in his speech. >> again, much of this information about the potential for violence was known or learned before the onset of the violence, early enough for president trump to take steps to prevent it. he could, for example, have urged the crowd not to march to the capitol. he could have condemned the violence immediately once it began, or he could have taken multiple other steps. but...

Why hasnt he walked down and said that now? >> i conveyed to the president what i think is best to do and im hopeful the president will do it. >> republican house member mike gallagher also implored the president to call off the attack. >> mr. president, you have got to stop this. you are the only person who can call this off. call it off. the election is over. call it off. this is bigger than you, its bigger than any member of congress, it is about the united states of america which is more imp...

At all. >> inside the white house the presidents advisers, including members of his family, wanted him to deliver a speech to the country. deputy white house counsel pat philbin prepared the first remarks, of national healing and a pretaped video on january 7th. when he arrived at the white house on the 7th, he believed more needed to be said he started writing. shared the draft with pat cipollone, also believed the president needed to say more. mr. cipollone agreed with the content, as did eric...

These show you with members of congress, including steve scalise, as well as the white house with leader kevin mccarthy and jim jordan. others show you with the president and members of congress aboard air force one. before you worked in the white house you worked on capitol hill for representative steve scalise, republican whip, and senator ted cruz. and then in 2019 you moved to the white house and served there until the end of the trump administration in 2020. when you started at the white ho...

With the post election period. director ratcliff felt that it wasnt something that the white house should be pursuing. it felt like it was dangerous for the presidents legacy. he had expressed to me that he was concerned it could spiral out of control and potentially be dangerous, either for our democracy or the way that things were going to the 6th. >> when you say it was not something -- [inaudible] >> trying to fight the results of the election. find missing ballots, pressuring -- filing laws...

Explanation and taking a few seconds for mark, and i said mark, did you hear him? and then mark chimed in like all right, anything else? still looking down at his phone. and tony looked at me and i looked at tony, do you have any questions? like what are you hearing? and i looked at tony and like he just told you about what was happening out at the rally, i know, and then he looked up and said have you talked to the president? and tony said yes, sir, hes aware, all right, good. >> he asked tony ...

Lunch against the wall, which was causing them to have to clean up. so i grabbed a towel and started wiping the ketchup off the wall to help the valet out, and he said something to the effect of hes really ticked off about this. i would stay clear of him for right now. hes really, really ticked off about this right now. >> miss hutchinson, was this the only instance that you are aware of where the president threw dishes? >> its not. >> and are there other instances in the dining room that you re...

Members of the oath keepers allegedly serving as his security detail. as we now know, multiple members of that organization have been charged with or pled guilty to crimes associated with january 6th. mr. stone has invoked his fifth amendment privilege against self-incrimination against this committee. general michael flynn has also taken the fifth before this committee. mr. stone previously had been convicted of other federal crimes unrelated to january 6th. general flynn had pleaded guilty to ...

On. we spent a lot of time on the hill, and i was his liason for capitol hill. travelling engagements, mostly i was there to serve what the chief of staff needed and lot of times what the chief of staff needed was reflection what the president was scheduled and detailed to do that day. >> so fair to say that you spoke regularly in your position both with members of congress and with senior members of the trump administration? >> thats correct, thats a fair assessment, sir. >> and would you say t...