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Trump said 'I don't want to say the election is over' in outtake video message
One of the most revelatory parts of this hearing are the outtakes from Trump's video message on 7 January.
"I don't want to say the election is over," he says in one clip. "I just want to say Congress has certified the results."
Here's the clip:
The January 6 committee has just concluded its final scheduled hearing, but its work is far from over. The committee will hold more hearings in September, and vice-chairwoman Liz Cheney said "the dam has begun to break" on the details of what happened that day. Here's more about what took place at tonight's hearing: One of the most revelatory parts of this hearing are the outtakes from Trump's video message on 7 January. "I don't want to say the election is over," he says in one clip. "I just want to say Congress has certified the results." Here's the clip: As the hearing resumed, congressman Adam Kinzinger asked viewers to put themselves in the shoes of the president on the day of the attack. "What would you have done if you had the opportunity to end the violence?" the Illinois Republican asked. "You would've told the rioters to leave. As you heard, that's exactly what the senior staff had been urging him to do. But he resisted, and he kept resisting for almost another two hours." Much of this hearing has focused on the efforts of various Trump administration official to get the president to act as the situation got ever more desperate at the Capitol. "Get Ivanka down here". That's what chief of staff Mark Meadows said as White House officials tried to figure out how to get Trump to stop the rioters at the Capitol, according to testimony from then-White House counsel Pat Cipollone. "I remember him getting Ivanka involved, said 'get Ivanka down here.' He felt that would be important", Cipollone said. Ivanka Trump is, of course, the president's daughter, who was an adviser in the White House and told the committee she never believed Trump's claims the 2020 election was stolen. Secret Service agents feared for their lives as the Capitol was stormed, an unnamed White House security official testified to the committee. "There's a lot of yelling, a lot of... very personal phone calls over the radio," the official said. Others "called to say goodbye to a family member". "I think there were discussions of reinforcements coming, but again, it is just chaos. They're just yelling", the official continued. "It sounds like that we came very close to either the service having to use lethal options, or worse." Elaine Luria, a Virginia Democratic lawmaker on the January 6 committee and a Navy veteran, said Trump violated his oath of office during the attack. "Our hearings have shown many ways in which President Trump tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power in the days leading up to January 6, with each step of his plan, and betrayed his oath of office, and was derelict in his duty," Luria said in her opening remarks. The committee's Republican vice-chair Liz Cheney announced lawmakers will hold more hearings in September due to the emergence of new evidence concerning the insurrection. "In the course of these hearings, we have received new evidence and new witnesses have bravely stepped forward. Efforts to litigate and overcome immunity and executive privilege claims have been successful, and those continue. Doors have opened, new subpoenas have been issued and the dam has begun to break. And now, even as we conduct our ninth hearing, we have considerably more to do," she said. "Our committee will spend August pursuing emerging information on multiple fronts before convening further hearings" the following month, Cheney said. The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has convened its latest hearing, which is expected to look into what Trump was doing during the insurrection. You can follow it on the live feed embedded above. As expected, tonight will not be the last hearing of the January 6 committee. NBC News reports the House panel will hold three more session in September. NEW: More J6 hearings to come in SEPTEMBER The inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the Secret Service, has embarked on a criminal investigation into the matter of agents' text messages relating to January 6, 2021, having been erased, according to several media reports. The watchdog also has told the Secret Service to pause its own internal investigation into the matter, during what the DHS now refers to as a separate and "ongoing criminal investigation", according to a CNN report. CNN further reported on a letter from DHS deputy inspector general Gladys Ayala to Secret Service director James Murray sent yesterday, quoting it as saying: This is to notify you that the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General has an ongoing investigation into the facts and circumstances surrounding the collection and preservation of evidence by the United States Secret Service as it relates to the events of January 6, 2021." And the Washington Post reported that Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi has confirmed the letter and has informed the House January 6 panel. "We have informed the January 6th Select Committee of the Inspector General's request and will conduct a thorough legal review to ensure we are fully cooperative with all oversight efforts and that they do not conflict with each other," Guglielmi said in a statement, the Post reported. The developments mark the latest escalation of the scandal after the watchdog notified Congress the DHS had sought the texts only to be told they no longer existed. The circumstances surrounding the erasure of the Secret Service texts have become central for the January 6 committee as it investigates how agents planned to move Donald Trump and Mike Pence as the violence unfolded. Good afternoon, US politics blog readers. In a few hours, the January 6 committee will hold its final scheduled hearing, in which House lawmakers will make the case that former president Donald Trump may have violated the law by not stopping the assault on the Capitol. As if that wasn't a packed news agenda by itself, president Joe Biden announced earlier today he had tested positive for Covid-19 – joining his vice president Kamala Harris, much of Congress's Democratic leadership and yes, Trump, in contracting the virus. Here's what else has happened today: Key events Closing summary Takeaways from tonight's January 6 committee hearing Trump said 'I don't want to say the election is over' in outtake video message Kinzinger: Trump 'kept resisting' opportunity to end violence for hours Mark Meadows said 'Get Ivanka down here', according to Cipollone Official said Secret Service agents 'called to say goodbye to family' Democratic congresswoman Luria says Trump was 'derelict in his duty' 'Dam has begun to break', Cheney says, as she announces further hearings January 6 committee begins hearing exploring what Trump was doing as Capitol was attacked January 6 committee plans September hearings Watchdog launches criminal investigation into missing Secret Service texts around January 6 riot - reports In final scheduled hearing, January 6 committee to press case Trump broke the law
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The January 6th Committee will hold more hearings - plural - in September, three sources familiar tell NBC News, with Vice Chair Liz Cheney expected to announce it tonight.
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Closing summary
It was a big night for revelations by the January 6 committee, which described in more detail than has been known in the past what Donald Trump was doing as the Capitol was attacked.
Here's a rundown of what happened:
- A Democratic congresswoman who led the day's presentation said Trump "was derelict in his duty" before and during the storming of the Capitol.
- Secret Service agents feared for their lives during the attack.
- Republican Senator Josh Hawley, who raised his fist in solidarity with the protesters that would go on to attack the Capitol, was shown fleeing through its halls.
- Republican Adam Kinzinger said Trump "kept resisting" actions demanded by his staff to end the violence.
- In speech outtakes, Trump struggled to say that the 2020 election was "over".
- Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows called for the president's daughter Ivanka to help convince him to stop the attack.
- House Republicans attacked the committee on Twitter, including one of their own staffers who was a witness. (They later deleted the tweet).
- The committee will have its next public hearings in September, and appears particularly interested in what the Secret Service knows about that day.
Joanna Walters
January 6 committee vice chair Liz Cheney reminded the public tonight that, essentially, the most serious evidence against Donald Trump in the "dereliction of his duty" as president has been presented by erstwhile allies and supporters.
As she wraps up, Cheney says: "The case made against him is not made by his political enemies. It is instead a series of confessions by Donald Trump's own appointees, his own friends, his own campaign officials, people who worked for him for years and his own family."
— Patricia Zengerle (@ReutersZengerle) July 22, 2022
Cheney, herself the Republican congresswoman from Wyoming, has been unsparing in her verbal flaying of Trump and his conduct.
Joanna Walters
Former Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department officer Michael Fanone, who was beaten by rioters during the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, was at the hearing this evening and was harassed on the street afterwards.
— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) July 22, 2022Quite a scene just now—
Officer Michael Fanone heckled by protesters of the Jan 6 hearing waiting outside the Capitol he fought to defend — someone with a flag pole steps in and a small skirmish ensues…
"Are you a real police officer?" pic.twitter.com/EbcJLWCqdO
Fanone also called right-winger Josh Hawley a clown - and worse. Said he understood the laughter in the hearing room when video was shown of Hawley, who had raised a clenched fist in solidarity with rioters earlier on January 6, running away later, but that it also pissed him off.
Lauren Gambino
Over the course of nine public hearings, the panel has sought to lay out the case that Trump orchestrated a multilayered plot to seize another term in office despite being told repeatedly and in no uncertain terms that his myth of a stolen election was baseless.
Culling from hundreds of thousands of documents and hundreds of interviews, the committee showed that Trump, having been turned back by the courts at every level, became increasingly desperate in his bid to overturn the results of an election his own Attorney General deemed free and fair.
It documented the pressure campaign Trump waged against state and local officials in states Biden won, pushing them to reverse their electoral votes. It detailed his efforts to lean on the Department of Justice officials to support his scheme. And it showed how, as the day drew nearer for Congress to count the electoral votes, Trump began to publicly and privately push his vice president to reject or delay the proceedings, an unprecedented act that one witness told the panel in June would have been "tantamount to a revolution within a constitutional crisis."
Taken together, the panel has sought to offer a full public accounting of the events of January 6 for the American people and for the historical record.
Its work, however, is not done. The committee continues to receive new information and said on Thursday that it would resume public hearings in September.
But already, the committee has presented evidence that lawmakers and aides have suggested could be used as a foundation for bringing a criminal case against the former president. Among the possible charges that have been discussed are conspiracy to defraud the American people and obstructing an official proceeding of Congress. The committee has also raised the prospect of witness tampering, announcing at its last hearing that Trump had attempted to contact a witness cooperating with its investigation.
"The facts are clear and unambiguous," Congressman Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chair of the committee, said on Thursday.
The Justice Department is pursuing a separate investigation into the events of January 6 that has resulted in hundreds of arrests, including rare seditious conspiracy charges against the leaders of violent far-right extremist groups involved in the breach of the Capitol.
"No person is above the law in this country," Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Wednesday. "I can't say it any more clearly than that."
Trump has dismissed the panel's inquiry as politically motivated and a witch hunt. He remains the most popular figure in the Republican party and a clear favorite to win the nomination in 2024.
But there are nevertheless signs that the committee's work is having an impact. Half of Americans say Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the attack, and nearly 6 in 10 say the former president bears a "great deal" or "quite a bit of responsibility" for the violence carried out in his name.
Lloyd Green
Thursday night's congressional hearing on the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol lived up to its billing as a season finale. A modern-day Nero, Trump watched reports of the invasion of the Capitol on Fox News from the comfort of his private White House dining room. The commander-in-chief ignored repeated calls to end the mayhem.
"The mob was his people." Trump never reached out to the military, the FBI, the defense department or the national guard to intervene. He rebuffed entreaties from Ivanka Trump, Mark Meadows and Pat Cipollone to end the downwardly spiraling situation.
The tumult of 6 January was not spontaneous. Trump knew that that the crowd was armed, but sought to accompany them to the Capitol. He wanted to obstruct the certification of the election with a phalanx behind him.
Carnage and destruction were OK. The ends justified all means. Here, past was prelude. In 2016, Trump signaled that he might not accept the election's results if they did not meet his expectations. As Covid descended in the spring of 2020, he began to refer to November's upcoming ballot as rigged, months before a single vote had been cast. The events of 6 January horrify and shock, but they cannot be characterized as a surprise.
A recording of Steve Bannon evidenced that Trump's reaction was premeditated. The prosecution has rested in his criminal case; he will not be taking the stand.
Trump's standing slowly erodes, even as Trumpism retains its firm grip on Republicans.
Read the rest here.
Another word or two on Trump's "criminal exposure", when panel member Adam Kinzinger talked to reporters after the hearing.
GOP IL Rep & 1/6 cmte mbr Kinzinger on Trump: I think the President certainly has criminal exposure..if you look at what we presented tonight, and in all these hearings, that cannot be acceptable from a President
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) July 22, 2022
A big question circling over these hearings is whether they'll spark a prosecution of Donald Trump.
Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois congressman who is one two Republicans on the panel and led part of tonight's session, said the president's conduct appears criminal.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, leaving the hearing, told me that Trump "certainly has criminal exposure" after what the committee has revealed so far — adding that the "worst thing" would be to end up suggesting that the President above the law.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 22, 2022
"I think the President certainly has criminal exposure," Kinzinger said. "I'm not a prosecutor, I'm not DOJ. But I certainly think if you look at what we presented tonight, and in all these hearings, that cannot be acceptable for the President of the United States."
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 22, 2022
Kinzinger added: "Like the worst thing we can do is put out something that says, 'a president is above the law and can do this again,' because I guarantee you it will happen again if we say that."
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 22, 2022
A reminder: it's up to the department of justice, headed by Merrick Garland, to decide whether Trump gets prosecuted over what the January 6 committee is finding.
The January 6 committee now has a month and a week – at least – before its next public hearing, which will come in September.
Speaking after today's session, committee members made clear they're very interested in what the Secret Service knows about Trump's actions on the day of the attack. Here's what Democratic representative Jamie Raskin told the press:
"There are certainly a number of significant leads… and we're going to pursue those. We're going to figure out this whole mystery with Secret Service texts."— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) July 22, 2022\n","url":"https://twitter.com/AndrewSolender/status/1550317268092993536?s=20&t=P1ewlDWR9Mj07uHAJ3ru1w","id":"1550317268092993536","hasMedia":false,"role":"inline","isThirdPartyTracking":false,"source":"Twitter","elementId":"a0c9b7ef-e1ed-4340-8007-ed854be8cb90"}}">
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) July 22, 2022Raskin on Sept hearings: "It all depends on … the evidence that comes in and then how we decide to make it coherent."
"There are certainly a number of significant leads… and we're going to pursue those. We're going to figure out this whole mystery with Secret Service texts."
The Secret Service's deletion of text messages is increasingly evolving into a scandal for the agency best-known for protecting the president. Democratic committee member Zoe Lofgren confirmed that two top officials who worked with Trump now have retained their own attorneys.
Asked by @AnnieGrayerCNN whether Tony Oranto and Robert Engel are the secret service officials who retained private counsel, Rep. Lofgren says "yes, and the driver"
— Nicholas Wu (@nicholaswu12) July 22, 2022
Ornato is the former head of Trump's security detail, whom the president named as his deputy chief of staff in 2019. Engel was Trump's lead secret Service agent during the attack, and his text messages were among those that the agency apparently deleted.
One point Cheney made tonight was that it was often Donald Trump's own appointees who spoke up against his actions on and leading up to January 6.
"The case against Donald Trump in these hearings is not made by witnesses who were his political enemies. It is instead a series of confessions by Donald Trump's own appointees, his own friends, his own campaign officials ... his own family," she said.
But she also noted that the women who testified have had to brave especially vicious personal attacks. Of Cassidy Hutchinson, the former aide to Trump's White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, who testified earlier, Cheney said: "She knew all along she would be attacked by President Trump, and by the 50-, 60-, 70-year-old men who themselves hide behind executive privilege."
Similarly, Sarah Matthews, was attacked on the House Republican conference Twitter account – despite the fact that she has worked for the House Republican conference – in a post that has since been taken down.
– MS
Takeaways from tonight's January 6 committee hearing
The January 6 committee has just concluded its final scheduled hearing, but its work is far from over. The committee will hold more hearings in September, and vice-chairwoman Liz Cheney said "the dam has begun to break" on the details of what happened that day.
Here's more about what took place at tonight's hearing:
- A Democratic congresswoman who led the day's presentation said Trump "was derelict in his duty" before and during the storming of the Capitol.
- Secret Service agents feared for their lives during the attack.
- Republican Senator Josh Hawley, who raised his fist in solidarity with the protesters that would go on to attack the Capitol, was shown fleeing through its halls.
- Republican Adam Kinzinger said Trump "kept resisting" actions demanded by his staff to end the violence.
- In speech outtakes, Trump struggled to say that the 2020 election was "over".
- Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows called for the president's daughter Ivanka to help convince him to stop the attack.
- House Republicans attacked the committee on Twitter, including one of their own staffers who was a witness. (They later deleted the tweet).
The video of Josh Hawley running away not long after he cheered on the January 6 mob is a moment that's likely to endure for a while after this hearing.
There was audible laughter in the room after the clip played. And now online it's being set to various soundtracks:
– Maanvi Singh
Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney, who lead the committee, are now delivering closing remarks.
Cheney ended with this thought: "Can a president who is willing to make the choices Donald Trump made during the violence of January 6 ever be trusted with any position of authority in our great nation again?"
– Maanvi Singh
"Whatever your politics, whatever you think about the outcome of the election, we as Americans must all agree on this: Donald Trump's conduct on Jan 6 was a supreme violation of his oath of office and a complete dereliction of his duty to our nation," Kinzinger said.
It's unclear whether these hearings will break through and convince many fellow Republicans. Polls prior to this hearing finale found that while the majority of Americans think Trump is responsible for the deadly insurrection, stark party divisions remain.
A Monmouth poll found that fewer Republicans now see January 6 as an insurrection than did last year.
– Maanvi Singh
Trump said 'I don't want to say the election is over' in outtake video message
One of the most revelatory parts of this hearing are the outtakes from Trump's video message on 7 January.
"I don't want to say the election is over," he says in one clip. "I just want to say Congress has certified the results."
Here's the clip:
The day after the attack, White House staff pressed Trump to give another speech to the nation condemning the attack on the Capitol, which committee member Elaine Luria said Trump was motivated to do "because of concerns he might be removed from power under the 25th amendment, or by impeachment".
The committee just showed video of him recording that speech and struggling to accept that the election was finished.
"But this election is now over. Congress has certified the results," Trump said in the speech, before saying to his staff: "I don't want to say the election's over. I just want to say Congress has certified the results, without saying the election's over, okay?"
"One day after he incited an insurrection based on a lie, President Trump still could not say that the election was over," Luria said.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2022/jul/21/jan-6-final-hearing-trump-capitol-latest-updates
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