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The January 6 Committee hearings Tuesday pulled together and exposed for the nation and the world the secret plans by former President Donald Trump to send a mob of his seditious supporters to storm the Capitol and halt certification of Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 elections.
Leave sets us up for the next hearing, in which you are gonna see every single minute donald trump did not tell them to leave. and they will sink that, no doubt, with this is the moment this police officer suffered a concussion. and that's the minute when donald trump didn't act. it will all be there. one of those, stunning things that happened, that sometimes does in hearing rooms after the testimonies are over, is, you showed some of it, but stephen ayers, going over to the capitol police officers, and he chose to do this. he chose to go over, and shake their hands. there is a stunning photo...
To the capitol. so, there is another moment where trump has another decision to make, whichto him might not have felt like a decision. and as he's on that stage on the ellipse, and they're starting to tell him, they have weapons, that crowd has extremely dangerous weapons. and they are choosing not to come through our weapons detectors, because they don't want to surrender their weapons. so, trump now has new knowledge that they have weapons. he has a choice to make, do i stick with my original plan of sending them to the capital, now that i know that they have deadly weapons? yeah, i guess i ...
Pence was not going to certify the election, that hope was there. >> did you think that the president would be marching with you? >> yeah. i think everybody thought he would be coming down. he said in his speech, kind of like he would be there with us, so i mean, i believed it. >> i understand. we know that you illegally entered the capitol that afternoon and then left the capitol area later on. what made you decide to leave? >> basically, when president trump put his tweet out, we literally left right after it come out. to me, if he would've done that earlier in the day, 1:30, maybe we wouldn...
In its depravity and cynicism, its blatant disregard for the Constitution, the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol is unprecedented.