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January 6th? >> for me personally, you know, i was, you know pretty hard-core into the social media. facebook, twitter, instagram. i followed president trump -- you know on all the websites. you know - he basically put out -- you know come to stop the steal rally. i felt like i needed to be down here. >> mr. ayers, when you enter the capitol last did you believe that the election had been stolen? >> at that time, yeah. everything i was seeing online, i definitely believed that that was exactly the case. >> and when you heard from president trump that the election was stolen, how did that make ...

Worked in practice, what it meant that day in very practical terms that trump supporters who thought they were being summoned to the capitol for a trump rally at the ellipse outside the white house soon found themselves somewhere else. soon found themselves directed by president trump that they should leave the white house area, leave the ellipse and instead walk cross town and go to the u.s. capitol building. this was testimony today from stephen ayers who did help storm the capital even though he didn't intend to in advance. he was criminally charged for his role in january 6th. >> so this c...

Members of the capitol police in d. c. metropolitan police who were injured during january six or at the hearing today just watch the proceedings. mr. ayers spoke to each of them and reportedly apologized to them about his role in the capitol attack. i'm not sure the apologies from him went over well with all of those officers, buddy detective personally. that testimony from him about being there that day, responding to president trump's call. responding to president trump's call to go to the capitol building even though he hadn't planned to do that at all. as later testimony about his regret ...

In its depravity and cynicism, its blatant disregard for the Constitution, the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol is unprecedented.

>> we've also talked about today in previous hearings the extent to which the president himself was told that the election hadn't been stolen by his justice department, by his white house by his campaign, how it had not been stolen. would it have been made a difference to you to know that president trump himself had no evidence of widespread fraud? >> oh definitely. who knows i may not have come down here. >> mr. ayers, you were in that crowd to the rally in the crowd marched to the capitol. when you arrived on the lips that morning, we planning to go to the capitol? >> no we didn't actually p...