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Mr Chairman. Let me put what you have seen today in a broader context.
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At the very outset of our hearings, we described several elements
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of President Trump's multipart plan to overturn the 2020 election.
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Our hearings have now covered all but one of those elements.
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And organized campaign to persuade millions of Americans of a falsehood
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that the 2020 election was stolen by widespread fraud.
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A corrupt effort to pressure vice president Pence to refuse to count
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electoral vote.
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An effort to corrupt the U. S. Department of Justice.
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Efforts to pressure state election officials and legislators to change
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state election results.
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A scheme to create and submit fake electoral slates from multiple
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states.
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And today you saw how President Trump summoned a mob to Washington
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for January 6th.
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And then knowing that that mob was armed, directed that mob to the
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United States Capitol.
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Every one of these elements of the planning for January. 6th is an
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independently serious matter.
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They were all ultimately focused on overturning the election.
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And they all have one other thing in common.
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Donald Trump participated in each substantially and personally.
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He oversaw or directed the activity of those involved.
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Next week, we will return to January 6th itself.
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As we have shown in prior hearings, Donald Trump and his legal team
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led by Rudy Giuliani. We're working on January 6th to delay or halt
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Congresses counting of electoral votes.
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The mob attacking and invading the capital. On that afternoon of
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January, 6th was achieving that result.
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And for multiple hours, Donald Trump refused to intervene to stop
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it.
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He would not instruct the mob to leave or condemn the violence. He
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would not order them to evacuate the capital and disperse.
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The many pleas for help from Congress did no good.
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His staff insisted the president Trump call off the attack. He would
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not
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Here are a few of the many things you will hear. Next week from Mr
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Sip Aloni.
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Is that right?
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I was another school. Was it necessary for you to continue to push
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for a statement directing people to leave all the way through that
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period of time until it was ultimately issued after it was my obligation
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to continue to push for that, and others thought it was their obligation
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as well. Would it have been possible at any moment for the president
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to walk down to
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Modi in the briefing room and talk to the nation at any time between
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when you first gave him that advice, two o'clock and 4 17
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Been missing.
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Would that be possible? Possible? Yes.
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And you will hear that Donald Trump never picked up the phone that
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day to order his administration to help.
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This is not ambiguous. He did not call the military. His secretary
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of defense received no order. He did not call his attorney general.
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He did not talk to the Department of Homeland Security.
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Mike Pence did all of those things. Donald Trump did not.
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We will walk through the events of January 6th next week minute by
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minute.
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And one more item.
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After our last hearing.
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President Trump
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Tried to call a witness in our investigation.
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A witness. You have not yet seen in these hearings.
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That person declined to answer or respond to President Trump's call.
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And instead alerted their lawyer to the call.
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Their lawyer alerted us.
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And this committee has supplied that information to the Department
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of Justice.
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Let me say one more time we will take any effort to influence witness
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testimony very seriously.
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