Shortly afterward, at 2:24 p.m., Trump tweeted that Pence didn’t have the “courage” to block or delay the election results as Congress was certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory. The committee played audio from an unidentified White House security official who said Pence’s Secret Service agents “started to fear for their own lives” at the Capitol and called family members in case they didn’t survive. And there’s Nothing? No call? Nothing Zero?” Milley said.Īs Trump declined to call for help, Vice President Mike Pence was hiding in the Capitol, just feet away from rioters who were about to breach the Senate chamber. You’ve got an assault going on on the Capitol of the United States of America. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reacting with surprise to the former president’s reaction to the attack. Witnesses confirmed that Trump did not call the defense secretary, the homeland security secretary or the attorney general. Trump “could not be moved,” Thompson said, “to rise from his dining room table and walk the few steps down the White House hallway into the press briefing room where cameras were anxiously and desperately waiting to carry his message to the armed and violent mob savagely beating and killing law enforcement officers.”Īs he sat in the White House, Trump made no efforts to call for increased law enforcement assistance at the Capitol. “People need to be told" to leave, Cipollone recalled telling the president, urging Trump to make a public announcement. Pat Cipollone, Trump’s top White House lawyer, told the panel that multiple aides - including Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump - advised the president to say something. In video testimony played at the hearing, former White House aides talked about their frantic efforts to get the president to tell his supporters to turn around. That was after some rioters had already breached barriers around the Capitol - and after Trump had been told about the violence within 15 minutes of returning to the White House.įox News was showing live shots of the rioters pushing past police, Luria said, showing excerpts of the coverage. Elaine Luria, D-Va., one of two members who led the hearing. He retreated to the dining room at 1:25 p.m., according to Rep. The panel emphasized where Trump was as the violence unfolded - in a White House dining room, sitting at the head of the table, watching the violent breach of the Capitol on Fox News. Capitol holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 21, 2022. 6 is played as the House select committee investigating the Jan. Scott Applewhite/AP Show More Show Less 7 of7 A video of President Donald Trump recording a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House on Jan. Elaine Luria, D-Va., speaks as the House select committee investigating the Jan. (House Select Committee via AP) Show More Show Less 6 of7 Rep. Capitol, Thursday, July 21, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. 7, 2021, that was played at a hearing by the House select committee investigating the Jan. Patrick Semansky/AP Show More Show Less 5 of7 This exhibit from video released by the House Select Committee, shows President Donald Trump recording a video statement at the White House on Jan. Capitol Police security video, rioters enter the Capitol in a video displayed as the House select committee investigating the Jan. Patrick Semansky/AP Show More Show Less 4 of7 In this U.S. Patrick Semansky/AP Show More Show Less 3 of7 Matt Pottinger, former deputy national security adviser, and Sarah Matthews, former White House deputy press secretary, return from a break as they testify as the House select committee investigating the Jan. Thompson has COVID-19 and is quarantining. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., appears via video as the House select committee investigating the Jan. Scott Applewhite/AP Show More Show Less 2 of7 Chairman Rep.
Elaine Luria, D-Va., listen as the House select committee investigating the Jan. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Rep.
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