The Select Committee to investigate the January 6th attack on a United States capital

will be in order.

Without objection, the chairs authorized to declare the committee and recess at any

point.

But soon at the House Deficition Authority Regulation 10, the chair announces the committee's approval

to release the deposition material presented during today's hearing.

Good afternoon.

In our previous hearings, the Select Committee showed that then President Trump applied

pressure at every level of government, from local election workers up to his own vice

president.

Hoping public servants would give in to that pressure and help him steal an election, he

actually lost.

Today, we'll tell the story of how the pressure campaign also targeted the federal agency

charged with enforcement of our laws, the Department of Justice.

We are already covered part of Mr. Trump's effort.

We heard from Attorney General Bill Barr tell the story and the committee about the baseless

claims Mr. Trump wanted the Justice Department to investigate.

Even that Mr. Barr viewed those claims as nonsense.

Today, we'll hear from Jeffrey Rosen, the person Mr. Trump appointed to run the Justice

Department after Attorney General Barr resigned.

We're here from other senior Justice Department officials also.

Together, these public servants resisted Mr. Trump's effort to misuse the Justice Department

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