Not just democrats like Speaker Nancy Pelosi and steny hoyer, but republicans like Vice President pence, Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell, Majority Whip john thune 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. Theyre taking the north front, staff only. Were not going to be able to hold. The door has been breached. People are gaining access into the capitol. Senator schumer is at a secure location. Theyre locked down in the senate. There has to be some way we can maintain the sense that people have, that theres some security, some confidence that government can function and that we can elect the president of the United States. Did we go back into session . Did go back into session. But now apparently everybody on the floor is putting on gas masks to prepare for a breach. Theyre putting on Tear Gas Masks . We need an area for the house members. Theyre all walking through the tunnels. Im going to call up the fing secretary of dod. We have senators in hideaway. Can you get the Maryland National guard to come too . I have something to say, mr. Secretary. Im going to call the mayor of washington d. C. Right now and see what other outreach he has as steny hoyer has mentioned. Hi, governor. This is nancy. Governor, i dont know if you have been approached about the Virginia National guard. Mr. Hoyer was spoking to governor hogan. But i still think you probably need the okay of the federal government in order to come in to another jurisdiction . Thank you. Oh, my gosh, theyre breaking windows. All kinds of something they said something was shot. Its just horrendous. All at the instigation of the president of the United States. Okay, thank you, governor. I appreciate what youre doing. If you dont mind, id like to stay in touch. Thank you. Virginia guard has been called in. I just talked to governor northam. They sent 200 state police and a unit of the national guard. Theyre breaking windows and going in obviously ransacking our offices and all the rest of that. That is nothing. The concern we have about personal harm safety. Personal safety is to just transcends everything. The fact is on any given day, theyre breaking the law in many different ways. Quite frankly much of it at the instigation of the president of the United States. If he could at least why dont you get the president to tell them to leave the capitol, mr. Attorney general . A Public Statement that they should all leave. [chanting usa]. This cannot be theyre waiting for so and so. We need them now, whoever you got. This is steny hoyer. We 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 evacuated, cleaned out . I dont want to speak for the leadership for execution of the operation. Im not going to say that. Theyre on the ground and just pretend for a moment some other entity that was under siege. Let me say you can get people there as you make the plan. How can we get this job done today . We talked to mitch about it earlier. Hes not in the room right now. He was with us earlier. He said we want to expedite this and hopefully they can confine it to one complaint, arizona and we can vote and that would be just move forward with the rest of the state. Overriding wish is to do it at the capitol. What were being told very directly is its going to take days for the capitol to be okay again. Weve gotten a very bad record about the condition of the house floor. Defecation and all that kind of thing as well. I dont think that that is hard to clean up. But i do think it is more from a Security Standpoint of 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. Okay. We left the conversation he said he had the impression from mitch that mitch wants to get everybody back to do it there. I said were getting a Counter Point that is it could take time to clean up the poopoo that theyre making all over literally and figuratively in the capitol and may take days to get back. Im at the capitol building. Im standing with the u. S. Capitol police. He just informed me what youll hear through official channels, your sergeant at arms, will inform you that their misinformation is that they believe that the house and the senate will be able to meet in an hour. Good news. The sergeant in arms will be in touch about the process for getting members back in the building. Thanks very much. Good news. This video, you just saw senator Chuck Schumer urging acting Attorney General jeff rosen to get President Trump to call off the rioters. Of course, acting a. G. Rosen did make moves. But congressional leadership recognized on a bipartisan basis that President Trump was the only person that could get the mob to end their violent siege of the congress, leave the capitol and go home. Heres Senator Mcconnell speaking after january 6th about how President Trump abandoned his duties and failed to do his job. It was obvious. Only President Trump could end this. He was the only one who could. Former aides publicly begged him to do so. Loyal allies, frantically called the administration. The president did not act swiftly. He did not do his job. He didnt take steps so federal law could be faithfully executed and order restored. No. In the midst of this violent chaos, Kevin Mccarthy implored donald trump to tell his supporters to leave the capitol. When that didnt work, mccarthy called trumps Adult Children to try to get them to intercede with trump to call off the insurrectionary violence. We showed you a description of What Mccarthy told Jamie Herrera butler with his conversation about trump. Another witness, Mick Mulvaney has also come forward and corroborated her shocking account. I had a conversation at some point in the day or week after the riot with Kevin Mccarthy. It was similar to what jamie had, the conversation she retold ant how he called and asked the president to get them to stop. The president said something along the lines of kevin, maybe these people are more angry about this than you are. I had a conversation similar to that with kevin in the days and week after the riot. We know how Kevin Mccarthy described President Trumps conduct in public and in private. The president bears responsibility for wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters. He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. These facts require immediate action by President Trump. Accept his share of responsibility, Coil The Brewing Unrest and ensure President Elect biden is able to successfully begin his term. Let me be very clear to all of you and i have been very clear to the president. He bears responsibilities for his words and actions. No ifs, ands or buts. I asked him personally today does he hold responsibility for what happened. Does he feel bad about what happened. He told me he does have some responsibility for what happened. He needed to acknowledge that. 2 24 p. M. Knowing the deadly riot was bearing down on his own Vice President , President Trump composed and sent a tweet attacking Vice President pence accusing him of cowardess for not rejecting Electoral College votes for biden and handing trump the presidency. The impact of that tweet was foreseeable and predictable. It inflamed the mob which was chanting hang mike pence and provoked them to greater violence. This deliberate decision to further enrage the mob against Vice President pence cannot be justified by anything that President Trump might have thought about the election. The tweet came precisely at the time pences secret Service Detail was most seriously concerned for the Vice President s physical safety. Weve obtained new documents from the secret service, realtime chats that underscore the threat that they knew the Vice President would be facing because of the president s escalating incitement of the mob. After trumps tweet, one agent in the secret Services Intelligence division warned potus just tweeted about pence, probably not going to be good for pence. Another agent reported the dramatic impact of trumps antipence 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 certain people were rioting the capitol and tweeting about it at the same time. As the afternoon progressed, the company detected a surge in violent hashtags and including lines like execute mike pence. Listen to this former twitter employee. Anika navorli has agreed to be named because she wants to speak out about the magnitude of the threats facing our people. You were also seeing content at the time that was threatening towards the Vice President , executemikepence . They were calling for his execution. And after this tweet. And in response to the tweet. Many of Donald Trumps tweets did, it fanned the flames and it was individuals that were constructing gallos, who were already willing, able and wanting to execute someone and looking for someone to be killed. Now the individual was called upon to begin this coup, is now pointing the finger at another individual while they were getting ready to do this. Heres a small sample of the reacts that President Trumps fan the flame tweets provoked Capitol Rioters in real time. What percentage of the crowd has gone to the capitol . 100 . Its spread like wild fire. Pence has betrayed us and everybody is marching on the capitol. All million of us. Its insane. Between 2 30 and 2 35 within ten minutes of President Trumps tweet, thousands of rioters overran the line that they were holding on the west side of the capitol. This is the first time in the history of the metropolitan Police Department that a Security Line like that had ever been broken. President trumps conduct that day was so shameful and so outrageous it prompted numerous members of the white house staff and other trump appointees to resign. Youve heard adviser Matt Pat Enger and Sarah Matthews explain why they felt compelled to resign on that day. Since then, weve spoken to more high ranking officials like the envoy in Northern Ireland and Mick Mulvaney and trans important take secretary elaine chao who resigned in protest of trumps misconduct and to dissociate themselves from his role in the violence. Take a listen to what they had to say. I was stunned by the violence. I was stunned by the president s apparent indifference to the violence. Now is the time for him to be president ial. He failed the duty. He failed at a critical time to be the sort of leader that the nation needed. I think the events at the capitol, however they occurred, were shocking. It was something that as i mention in my statement, that i could not put aside. 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. When security began to arrive at the capitol and the tide turned against the inner is insurrection gave his speech. After multiple hours of rioting and injuries suffered by our Law Enforcement officers, the crowd finally began to disburse. Listen to what they said as they decided to leave the capitol. Finally, at 6 01, President Trump tweeted again, not to condemn the Mass Violence in any way but rather to excuse and glorify it. He said these are the things and events that happened when a sacred Landslide Victory is stripped away from great patriots who have been badly unfairly treated for so long. These are the things that happened, he said, giving the whole game away. Trump was telling us that the Vice President , the congress and all of 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 he were talking about dday 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. Would it be possible at any moment for the president to walk down to the podium and the Briefing Room and talk to the nation any time between when you first gave him that advice and 4 17 with a Video Statement . Would have it been possible . Would it have been possible . Yes. The president wanted to make a statement and address the American People. He could have been on camera almost instantly. Conversely, the White House Press corps has offices that are located directly behind the Briefing Room. So if he had wanted to make an address from the oval office, we could have assembled the White House Press corps in a matter of minutes in the oval to do an oncamera address. Mr. Chairman, nothing in law or fact could justify the president s failure to act. And i assume you also would agree the president has a particular obligation to take care that the laws be faithfully executed . That is one of the president s obligations, correct. Mr. Chairman, in numerous places our constitution strongly opposes insurrection and rebellion. Article 1 gives congress the power to call forth the malitia to suppress insurrections. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment disqualified from holding federal and state Office Anyone who has sworn and oath to defend the constitution but engaging a rebellion. It was president lincoln at the start of the civil war in 1861 that best explained why democracy rejects insurrections. American democracy belongs to all the people, not a single man. Thank you, mr. Chairman, i yield back. The gentleman yields back. During this committees first hearing in july of last year, our witnesses were four Police Officers who helped repel the riots of january 6. We asked them what they hoped to see the committee accomplish. Over the course of our investigation. Officer gannel wanted to know why the rioters were made to believe that the election process was rigged. Another officer asked us to look into the actions and activities that resulted in the days events. Officer hodges was concerned about whether anyone in power had a role. Officer dunn put it simply, get to the bottom of what happened. Weve worked for more than a year to get those answers. Weve conducted more than 1,000 interviews and depositions. We received and reviewed hundreds of thousands of pages of documents. Thanks to the tireless work of our members and investigators, weve left 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. So 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 weve 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. Hes required to answer for his actions, hes required to answer to those Police Officers<