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Its methodical, we always point out the caveat, there is not a minority here thats pushing back or questioning the other way, but it leads up to january 6th, the concern that it might "get real, real bad" in the days before, the concern that the proud boys and oath keepers would be there, the concern there would be weapons on the mall and then radio transmission that they saw weapons, ar-15s and others. and the testimony the president was really concerned about the crowd, that they were not allo...

I would say two other things. on the issue of incitement, ive stressed, john has stressed, its a complex legal issue and relevant that trump said peacefully march, which is something they continue to leave out. however -- not the only charge thats relevant here. >> government officials, including members of congress, and what this testimony shows as bret was just pointing out, the president we now know knew powerfully that there was a heavily armed crowd that he was basically encouraging doing d...

Floor speech, did you listen? yeah, it was good, did you like it? i said yeah, do you know where hes at right now? he said no, i havent heard from him. i said you might want to check in with him, mark. and i remember pointing at the tv, the rioters are getting close. they might get in. and he looked at me and said something to the effect of all right, ill give him a call. >> not long after the rioters broke into the capitol you described what happened with white house counsel pat cipollone. >> n...

Later. much later. 4:17 p.m., donald trump finally told the rioters to go home and that he loves them. here is portion of the video president trump recorded from the white house. >> we have to have peace. so go home, we love you, you are very special, you have seen what happens, you see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. i know how you feel. but go home and go home in peace. >> but as we will show in even greater detail in future hearings, donald trump was reluctant to put t...

I recall him being reluctant to film the video on the 6th, i was not involved in any of the planning for that video. i remember seeing the video go out and feeling a little shocked after it went out. >> on the evening of january 6th, and the day after, the presidents family and his senior staff and others tried to encourage the president to condemn the violence and commit to the peaceful transition of power. at 3:31 p.m. on january 6th, sean hannity of fox news texted mark meadows. he said "can ...

Blame. lets blame antifa, these arent our people. its my understanding that mr. meadows was in the deflecting a blame category but he did end up taking a more neutral route, knowing that there were several advisers in the presidents circle urging him to take more action, which i think was reflected in the rhetoric released later that day in the videos. >> you told us that the white house counsel office was in the camp encouraging to stop the attack and leave the capitol. >> white house counsels ...

F-ing furious, and mr. trump talked about the o.t.r., off the record movement. could you tell us who was furious? >> the he i was referring to was the president. he was furious because he wanted the arena that we had to be maxed out at capacity for all attendees. the advance team had relayed to him that the mags were free flowing, everybody who wanted to come in had already come in but he still was angry about the extra space and wanted more people to come in. >> and did you go to the rally in t...

Invoking the 25th amendment to remove president trump from office. as you can see on the screen, the 25th amendment to the constitution creates a process for the transition of power if a president is unfit or unable to serve. 25th amendment has never been used to remove a president. but the committee has learned that after the attack on the u.s. capitol, this was being discussed by members of president trumps cabinet as a way of stripping the full power of the presidency from donald trump. presi...

Jonathan turley, both are fox news contributors. jonathan, i was quoting you earlier, but also looking at your most recent observation that in that moment where the secret service would have been refusing to comply with a direct order of the president to proceed to the capitol, you know im not sure of the authority to do so by sub -- subordinate, the security team believed it would endanger him. you first. >> yeah, thats a breathtaking moment and i cannot remember anything that would be its equi...

Through metal detectors known as mags for short. the select committee has learned people who willingly entered the enclosed area for president trumps speech were screened so they could attend the rally. they had weapons and other items confiscated. pepper spray, knives, brass knuckles, tassers, body armor, gas masks, batons, blunt weapons. those were just from the people who chose to go through the security for the presidents event on the elipse, not the several thousand members who refused to g...