I guess we're going to go in.

On a United States capital will be in order.

Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point.

Puts into house deposition authority regulation 10.

The chair announces the committee's approval to release the deposition material presented

during this hearing.

Good afternoon.

In our hearings over the previous weeks, the select committee has laid out the details of a multi-part

pressure campaign driven by the former president aimed at overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election

and blocking the transfer of power.

We've shown that this effort was based on a lie.

A lie that the election was stolen, tainted by widespread fraud, Donald Trump's big lie.

In the weeks ahead, the committee will hold additional hearings about how Donald Trump

summoned a mob of his supporters to Washington, spurred them to march on the capital

and failed to take meaningful action to quell the violence as it was unfolding on January 6th.

However, in recent days, the select committee has obtained new information dealing with what was going on in the White House on January 6th and in the days prior.

Specific detailed information about what the former president and his top aides were doing and saying in those critical hours.

First hand details of what transpired in the office of the White House chief of staff just steps from the overall office as the threats of violence became clear and indeed violence ultimately descended on the capital in the attack on American democracy.

It's an important, it's important that the American people hear that information immediately.

That's why in consultation with the vice chair, I've recalled the committee for today's hearing.

As you've seen in her in our earlier hearings, the select committee has developed a massive body of evidence thanks to the many hundreds of witnesses who have voluntarily provided information relevant to our investigation.

It hasn't always been easy to get that information because the same people who drove the former president's pressure campaign to overturn the election are now trying to cover up the truth about January 6th.

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