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White house chief of staff office with mr. meadows he became the fourth chief of staff, its difficult to describe a typical day. i was a special assistant to the president and adviser to the chief of staff. the days depended on what the president was doing that day and thats kind of how my portfolio was reflected. a lot of outreach with members of congress, senior cabinet officials, policy issues with relevant internal components and members on the hill, as well as security protocol at the white...

The idea of the president accompanying rally attendees to the capitol on the 6th. >> this was the 6th, during the, after he finished his remarks. >> when the president said he would be going to the capitol during his speech on the ellipse, the secret service scrambled to find a way to go. we know from witnesses and the secret service, also from messages of the national security council. they were monitoring in realtime and see how the situation evolved in the following chat log the committee has...

Served a full term in office i personally turned her request down. why does she want to go with us if she felt we were so terrible. i understand she was upset and angry if she wanted to be a member of the team, she is bad news. >> bret: we would hear from the former president right away and knew we would, and she did change lawyers just in recent days, which she was cooperating differently at the beginning. >> john: she was with stefan passentino, and then with jodie hunt, jeff sessions chief of...

Tony proceeded to tell me that when the president got in the beast, he was under the impression from mr. meadows that the off the record movement to the capitol was still possible and likely to happen, but that bobby had more information. so once the president had gotten into the vehicle with bobby he thought that they were going up to the capitol and what bobby had relayed to him, we are not, we dont have the assets to do it, its not secure, we are going back to the west wing. the president had...

General barr described to the committee the presidents angry reaction when he finally met with president trump. lets listen. >> and i should -- i know that you are dissatisfied with me and im glad to offer my resignation and he pounded the table very hard, everyone sort of jumped and said accept it? >> mr. chairman, i reserve. >> chair woman reserves. the chair requests those in the hearing room to remain seated until the capitol police have escorted our witness to the room. pursuant of the orde...

1973. back then that was alex butterfield, who testified to the existence of nixons secret taping system, blew it wide open. do we have anything approaching that from this witness? >> martha: i would say, john, i agree with what you have been talking about, i would say we had sort of the basic parameters of what happened with regard to this. we heard before that the president wanted to go to the capitol and that there was pushback against that. so what we are getting today are a lot of details a...

Live, i remember hearing noise coming from down the hallway, so i poked my head out of the office and i saw the valet walking towards our office, he said get the chief down to the dining room, the president wants him. mark went down to the dining room, came back to the office a few minutes later. after mark had returned, i left the office and went down to the dining room and i noticed the door was propped open and the valet was inside the dining room changing the table cloth off the dining room ...

Supporters to leave the capitol. would not have been hard for the president to simply walk down to the briefing room a few feet down the hall from the office, as nora odonnell noted during an interview with kevin mccarthy, where he believes the attack was un-american. >> quickly bring in kevin mccarthy, the house minority leader. leader mccarthy, do you condemn this violence? >> i completely condemn the violence in the capitol. we are currently watching unfold is un-american. i am -- i am disapp...

I had a deeper concern for what was happening with the planning aspects of it. >> thank you. today we are going to focus primarily on the events of january 5th and six at the white house, to begin and frame the discussion i want to talk about a conversation that you had with mr. john ratcliff, the director of national intelligence and you had the conversation in december of 2020. mr. ratcliff was nominated by president trump to oversee u.s. intelligence community and before his appointment mr. r...

Capitol that were chanting for the vice president to be hung. >> let me pause here on this point. rioters chanted hang mike pence. the president of the united states, donald trump, said that "mike deserves it" and those rioters were not doing anything wrong. this is a sentiment he has expressed at other times as well in an interview with abc news correspondent jonathan karl, president trump was asked about the supporters chanting hang mike pence last year. instead of condemning them, the former ...