And we're off! Get well fast, Representative Thompson!

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Katie S. Phang

JUST IN: the
@January6thCmte
will hold MORE public hearings in September.

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Focus on the 187 minutes. Trump ignored pleas to stop the attack on the Capitol. He was "the only person in the world" who could have stopped the rioters.

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Representatives Adam Kinzinger and Elaine Luria running things tonight. More hearings in September.

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No doubt that there was a concerted effort to overturn the election, run by Trump. Made targets out of Pence and members of Congress. There must be accountability to the law and the American people, at all levels of government.

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Must have consequences or terrible risk to our democracy.

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Liz Cheney (R-WY) is up. Says nice things about Thompson.

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Trump had 7 point plan to overturn the election. Now there is more information than ever, and "the dam has begun to break." There is "considerably more to do." Committee will have more hearings in September.

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Way more info now than when Trump was impeached and tried. 57 of 100 senators voted to convict him. Clip of McConnell blaming Trump (AFTER he had voted to acquit him. I'm not a fan.)

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We know the many ways in which Trump tried to steal the election. Nothing worked. On afternoon of January 6, he relied on the "angry armed mob Trump sent to the Capitol."

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Even those who had helped cause the crisis were scared. Hmmm....

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Trump refused to call off the rioters. In immediate aftermath, no one defended Trump. No one should now, either.

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Luria is up. She shows the presidential oath of office. President is supposed to execute the laws faithfully. (Really nice framing of why all this matters.)

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Trump instructed supporters, whom he knew were armed, to march to the Capitol. He promised to go with them.

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Pence was already in the Capitol and the building had been breached. But rather than stopping the violence, Trump refused to tell the mob to leave.

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Why the hell is he in the Rose Garden when he made that video? That's really important. Why did the Secret Service permit that? I mean, unless they knew something?

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So what happened between the end of the Ellipse speech and the video telling people to go home. He sat in the dining room. Dereliction of duty. Luria is a 20 year Navy vet.

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Kinzinger now. (Also a veteran.) Clip of McCarthy blaming Trump for inaction. Also Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark A. Milley says he should have done something.

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What explains Trump's behavior? The mob attacking the Capitol gave Trump what he wanted: the delaying of the electoral count. Trump didn't FAIL to act. He CHOSE not to act.

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Other people DID their duty. Trump did not.

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Witnesses: Matthew Pottinger and Sarah Matthews. Pottinger is also a veteran. Matthews is former deputy press secretary. Both resigned after the events of January 6.

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Pottinger explains his role as deputy national security advisor to Trump. He's a true believer. Talking about how good Trump's national security policies were.

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Matthews emphasizes, too, that she's a Republican. (Good article in... I think it was the Washington Post... from two political scientists about how hearing from REPUBLICANS-- but not Democrats-- changes Republican minds.)

@Jezibaba
This goes with the public education/ deprogramming effort we were discussing a few days ago

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