In a video montage, several aides describe Trump watching TV in the White House dining room instead of taking action during the crisis.
Adam Kinzinger, a retiring Republican from Illinois who is one of the two GOP members on the select committee, on Thursday morning teased some footage from the depositions that will be aired as part of the hearing.
Some committee members have described this as Trump’s “dereliction of duty.” The committee has said it will focus on the 187 minutes that Trump sat back, refusing to act, as the Capitol was under siege. The video tape outtakes will be one part of a larger presentation during which the committee plans to detail Trump’s lack of attention to the ongoing riot. You’ll hear the terrible lack of a response from the President, and you’ll hear more about how he was ultimately prevailed upon to say something and what he was willing to say and what he wasn’t.” The California Democrat said the outtakes will show “all of those who are urging him to say something to do something to stop the violence. Adam Schiff, another committee member, told CNN’s Don Lemon later Wednesday that the outtakes “will be significant in terms of what the President was willing to say and what he wasn’t willing to say.” “It’s extremely revealing how exactly he went about making those statements, and we’re going to let everybody see parts of that,” he added. “The President displayed extreme difficulty in completing his remarks,” Raskin said on “Anderson Cooper 360.” Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat who is a member of the committee, confirmed Wednesday night to CNN’s Anderson Cooper that the panel has the outtakes and plans to share some of them during the hearing. What we know about Trump's inaction during the 187 minutes of January 6Ī spokesman for the January 6 select committee declined to comment on the outtakes. Photographer: Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images Eric Lee/Bloomberg/Getty Images Trump's months-long effort to toss out the election results and extend his presidency will meet its formal end this week, but not without exposing political rifts in the Republican Party that have pitted future contenders for the White House against one another. President Donald Trump speaks during a "Save America Rally" near the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Jan.
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