This is a reading of the December 22nd, 2022 final report from the select committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the United

States Capitol.

Chapter 7.

187 minutes of dereliction.

7.4.

We're going to try to get the president to put out a statement.

Minutes after arriving back at the White House,

the President ran into a member of the White House staff

and asked whether he or she watched his speech on television.

Sir, they cut it off because they're rioting down at the Capitol, the employee said.

The President asked what he or she meant by that.

They're rioting down there at the Capitol, the employee repeated.

Oh, really? the president asked. All right, let's go see.

A photograph taken by the White House photographer, the last one permitted until later in the day,

captures the moment the president heard the news from the employee at 121 p.m.

By that time, if not sooner, he had been made aware of the violent riot at the Capitol.

President Trump walked through the corridor from the Oval Office into the presidential dining room and sat down at the table with the television remote and a diet coke close at hand.

For the rest of the afternoon, as his country faced an hour's long attack, he hunkered down in or around the dining room, watching

television.

He left only for a few minutes, from 403 p.m. to 4.07 p.m. to film a video in the Rose Garden only a few steps away after hours of

arm twisting. But otherwise the president remained in the dining room until 6.27 p.m. when he returned to his private residence.

What happened during the 187 minutes from 110 p.m. to 417 p.m. when President Trump finally told the

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