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

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Katie S. Phang

JUST IN: the
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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.)

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Luria: security official has told the committee that the White House knew there were weapons in the crowd. Official says they "were all in shock" at idea Trump was marching to the Capitol. It would turn a rally into a coup.

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Alarmed because the president wanted to lead 10,000 supporters to the Capitol.

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Luria says that Tony Ornato said the president was "irate" when not allowed to go to the Capitol. (They're supporting Cassidy Hutchinson here.) Another police officer supports that account.

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SGT. Mark Robinson says in more than 100 details, he knew of no other in which the president fought his detail.

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Robinson says Trump wanted to go to the Capitol. Back at White House, put on standby to see if Trump could go to the Capitol. 45 minutes to an hour to see if Trump was going to go to the Capitol.

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Secret Service officers have retained private counsel. ‼️

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White House employee told Trump about the Capitol riot within 15 minutes of getting back to the White House.

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Trump went to dining room, steps from the Oval Office, and watched the Fox News Channel for more than 2.5 hours.

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No official record of what Trump did. Call logs are blank. Presidential daily diary is also blank. No photos. Chief White House photographer wanted to take pictures, but was told no.

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But the committee knows what he was doing....

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What he WASN'T doing was calling any official to stop the attack.

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No one heard from Trump that day.

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Trump was calling senators to get them to object to the counting of the electoral votes.

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We know from Giuliani's phone records that Trump called him.

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At 1:49 DC police declared a riot at the Capitol. Trump tweeted out a link to his Ellipse speech.

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Kinzinger: Trump's staff begged him to condemn the violence and tell the crowd to go home. Cipollone says he was emphatic and clear that people needed to know they had to leave the Capitol.

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Cipollone says lots of people were saying that. And yet, it took more than two hours for Trump to tell them to leave.

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Cipollone and Cassidy Hutchinson both said that Ivanka Trump was trying to work on Trump to tell them to leave.

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Hutchinson says that Meadows said that Trump didn't want to do anything about the "Hang Mike Pence" chants; Trump thought Pence deserved it.

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Cipollone says the chants were outrageous... and expressed that.

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At any moment, Trump could have appeared at the podium in the press room (which is quite close to the Oval Office) and address the nation.

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Mel🥄MeMe LaS'Mores  

@Jezibaba
That is the smart move here

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@publickovacs Yes, it is.

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Mel🥄MeMe LaS'Mores  

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Oh the beauty of having *two ends* to each call

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@publickovacs Right?

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Mel🥄MeMe LaS'Mores  

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Because he was getting old on it, that is why

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No, autocorrect: he was getting *off* on it

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Eileen  

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To be fair, most logs of Trumps activities in the White House would look a lot like that. They didn't record that he watched hours of Fox News. They just called it "executive time."

A good day for America was any day when Trump did nothing and talked to no one.

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