Chapter 7.5 - "He Doesn't Want to Do Anything" (The January 6th Report)
Government Unfiltered
Dan Williams
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🗓️ 17 April 2023
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Summary
Throughout the afternoon, the President's advisors tried to get him to tell the mob to leave the Capitol. This section describes the concerns of members of the White House staff who wanted the President to release a statement regarding the violence outside the Capitol. It also talks about the reaction of the White House counsel when he realized that rioters had entered the Capitol.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a reading of the December 22nd, 2022 final report from the select committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the United |
| 0:16.2 | States Capitol. |
| 0:18.4 | Chapter 7. |
| 0:20.0 | 187 minutes of dereliction. |
| 0:23.0 | 7.5. |
| 0:27.6 | He doesn't want to do anything. |
| 0:30.5 | Throughout the Acting Director of Communications, watched on the news as officers and rioters pepper sprayed each other |
| 0:45.8 | and crowds used bicycle barricades to push against officers holding the line. |
| 0:50.6 | He and Sarah Matthews, the Deputy press secretary, devised a plan. |
| 0:56.3 | He would go to Meadows and she would go to Mackinenny to urge that the president issue a statement. |
| 1:01.7 | Williamson first texted Meadows. |
| 1:04.0 | Would recommend Podes put out a tweet about respecting the police over at the Capitol. |
| 1:09.1 | Minutes later, around 205 p.m. |
| 1:12.3 | Hutchinson found Meadows seated in his office on the couch, absorbed by his cell phone screen. |
| 1:18.0 | Are you watching the TV chief? she asked. |
| 1:21.0 | He indicated he was. |
| 1:23.0 | Have you talked to the president? |
| 1:25.0 | She asked. |
| 1:26.0 | No, he replied. |
| 1:28.0 | He wants to be alone right now. |
| 1:30.0 | Rioters broke into the west side of the Capitol Building around 2.13 p.m. |
| 1:35.0 | Just a few minutes later, Hutchinson saw Cipolloni barreling down the hallway, |
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