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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 counsel's 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 group where advisers were trying to tow the line knowing that mr. trump didn't necessarily want to take...

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 as we will see today and in later hearings, president trump had something else in mind. one other q...

Why hasn't he walked down and said that now? >> i conveyed to the president what i think is best to do and i'm 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, it's bigger than any member of congress, it is about the united states of america which is more important than any politician. call it off. it's over. >> despite the fact that many people close to...

At all. >> inside the white house the president's 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 herschmann who reviewed the draft. the committee has learned the president did not agree with the ...

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 house you served in the office of legislative affairs. we understand that you were initially hired as ...