\ 10/14/22 10/14/22 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >> this afternoon, i am offering this resolution. the committee directs the chairman to issue a subpoena for relevant documents and testimony under oath from donald john trump in connection with the january 6 attack on united

states. america unanimously voted to subpoena former president donald trump to testify. during the hearing, lawmakers outlined trump's central role in the january 6 insurrection. we will air excerpts, including dramatic high the scenes footage of house speaker nancy pelosi and senator chuck schumer responding to, been was being attacked. >> on any given day they are breaking the law in different ways. quite frankly, much of it at the instigation of the president of the united states. >> why don't you get the president to tell them to leave the capitol? a public statement they should all leave? amy: all that and more, coming up.

welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the house select committee investigating the u.s. capitol insurrection has voted to subpoena former president donald trump, demanding he turn over documents and testify about his role implement and violence on january 6, 2021. the committee's vote on thursday afternoon cast what is widely expected to be its last public hearing stop after headlines, we will spin the rest of the are playing extended excerpts of the hearing. the supreme court has rejected a bid by donald trump's lawyers could derail a federal criminal probe into whether trump violated the espionage act and presidential records laws and whether he obstructed justice to cover up those crimes. on thursday, justices refused to take up a challenge by trump's lawyers to a lower court ruling allowing the justice department to use records marked as "classified" in its

investigation into documents heldy trump his mar-lago tate in orida. th week rerts emerd a trp aide td the fbhe was ordered move bos of documents out of a basement orage aa to trum's sidence mar-a-lo. e fbi reportly has surveillce foota showing -- showing the boxes being transferred. in north carolina, five people were killed, including a police officer, after a gunman opened fire on a walking trail in a residential area of raleigh thursday afternoon. police say they've arrested a suspect identified only as a white male juvenile who has been hospitalized. raleigh's mayor mary-ann baldwin spoke after the shooting. >> we have to end this gun violence happening in our country. we have work to do but there are too many victims -- we have to wake up.

amy: a jury in florida has rejected the death penalty for nikolas cruz, who killed 17 people in a 2018 mass shooting at the marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland. on thursday, cruz was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after a single juror refused to recommend a death sentence. under florida law, death penalty cases require a unanimous decision. the life sentence drew angry reactions from family members who packed the courtroom. this is ilan marc alhadeff, whose daughter alyssa was among cruz's victims. >> i am disgusted with the system. that you can allow 17 dead and 17 other shot and wounded and not give the bets and opti. what do we have the death penalty for? what is the purpe of it? amy: some parkland survivors

were against capitol punishment. -- capital punishment. cameron kasky, who was 17 and a junior at marjory stoneman douglas at the time of the attack, said -- "the death penalty is barbaric and implementing state violence will not bring any of the victims back." he added -- "make no mistake, it's the politicians who support the gun lobby that should be held accountable for this." the biden administration has started expelling venezuelan asylum seekers to mexico under an expansion of the trump-era data 42 policy that's been used to block at least 2 million migrants from applying for asylum at the u.s.-mexico border. some 25,000 venezuelan asylum seekers were hinted at the southern border in the month of august alone as people continue to flee in part due to the

catastrophic impacts of u.s. economic sanctions on venezuela. this is venezuelan asylum seeker leonesi castillo, who was expelled to mexico thursday. >> i entered the united states and no response. they sent us back over the bridge. saying go back home again. they did not say anything. the requested we have a relative who is been living there in the u.s. for over four or five years. it is unfair. we have run out of money. we have had our backs stolen. shelters don't take us in. we are strain it in the street. nobody wants to help us. amy: in more immigration news, the texas tribune reports a group of asylum seekers who were flown from texas to martha's vineyard, an island off massachusetts, by republican florida governor ron desantis last month may be able to apply for a special visa to stay in the united states. this comes after bear county sheriff javier salazar certified the 49 asylum seekers had been

victims of a crime when they were coerced into boarding the flights to martha's vineyard. this could pave the way for them to apply for a visa for victims or witnesses of a crime. the asylum seekers were convinced to board the planes by a woman identified as perla huerta, a former counterintelligence agent who falsely promised them jobs and housing if they went to massachusetts. in ukraine, russian officials have asked the residents to evacuate as you crates military advances on the russian occupied city seeking to recapture it. the city is part of a territory that russian president vladimir putin claimed to have annexed in move condemn this week by the u.n. general assembly. in iraq, lawmakers have elected abdul latif rashid as the country's new president, paving the way for the formation of a new government after a year of political uncertainty and conflict in the iraqi parliament. rashid immediately named

mohammed shia al-sudani as new prime minister. al-sudani now has 30 days to form a new government. protests rocked iraq for months in response to the political turmoil with supporters and opponents of the powerful iraqi cleric muqtada al-sadr clashing in baghdad. al-sadr resigned from parliament in august. his party, the sadrist movement, won the most seats in last october's parliament election but failed to win an outright majority. al-sadr's supporters occupied the iraqi parliament in an effort to block lawmakers from choosing a new prime minister. israeli forces in the occupied west bank fatally shot a palestinian man during a raid on the jenin refugee camp this morning. 20-year-old mateen dabaya is at least the 160th palestinian killed by israel in the west bank this year. among the wounded was physician abdullah al-ahmad, who is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head.

jazeera reports israeli forces -- al jazeera reports israeli forces were filmed shooting at ambulance crews. a new report warns that some wild animal populations are declining on a devastating scale. the 2022 living planet index finds populations of amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles that were tracked for the study have declined by an average of 69% since 1970. the report's authors notehat populations of many species have increased over that time, even as the biodiversity of animal species continued to plunge rapidly due to the combined effects of habitat loss, overfishing, pollution, and the climate crisis. a warning to our audience, this story contains graphic footage and descriptions of prison violence. in florida, a federal judge has held the federal bureau of prisons and a local warden in contempt of court over their neglect and indifference to the plight of a 54-year-old prisoner who was dying of cancer. frederick mervin bardell was diagnosed with an intestinal

mass several years ago, at a time when his tumor was treatable, but his repeated requests for compassionate release and healthcare were denied and his cancer metastasized. in a scathing 14-page ruling, u.s. district judge roy balton wrote -- "the treatment mr. bardell received in the last days of his life is inconsistent with the moral values of a civilized society and unworthy of the department of justice of the united states of america." the judge's order contained photographs of bardell just after he had arrived at a hospital bleeding, incontinent, and emaciated, after he was "deposited on the curb of the dallas/fort worth airport to fend for himself." he died nine days after his release. in more news from florida, "the miami herald" has published shocking footage showing how 62-year-old florida prisoner craig ridley was left to starve and die after prison guards broke his neck in 2017. video taken by a prison official

shortly after the catastrophic injury reveals guards ignored ridley's protests that "my neck is broken" and "i'm paralyzed." >> placed an inmate on the ground. at this time the inmate is refusing to walk. got a wheelchair on the way. amy: the guards repeatedly accused dley of faking his injury and hoisted his limp body into a wheelchair. craig ridley died on october 12, 2017, five years ago this week, intubated and unable to communicate. the social security administration has announced its largest increase in benefits in more than 40 years. on thursday, officials said retirees and people who receive disability benefits will see an 8.7% boost to their monthly

checks beginning next year. the increase comes after year-over-year inflation topped 8% over the same period. meanwhile, new housing data show u.s. rents increased by 7.2% or the last year, while an index of u.s. food prices grew by more than 11%. "the wall street journal" reports kroger and albertsons are in talks to secure a deal that, if approved,ould uni the twlargest permarke erators the u.s progreive grou are calling on the feralrade comssion to rect the rger, waing supermarket consolidation usually leads to price hikes. and civil rights activist and minister charles melvin sherrod died this week at the age of 85 in albany, georgia. sherrod joined the student nonviolent coordinating committee as its first full-time field secretary in 1961 and was a key figure in the albany movement, which galvanized georgians in the fight against segregation and for voting rights in the jim crow south. he later went on to serve as albany city commissioner and

teach at albany state university. along with his wife shirley sherrod and others, he founded the black-owned farming collective and land trust new communities. shirley sherrod said of her late husband, "his life serves as a shining example of service to one's fellow man." and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the house select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capitol held what may have been its final public hearing on thursday. the meeting ended with the committee unanimously voting to subpoena former president donald trump, setting up a likely a court battle. many said the former president is at the center of the story of what happened on january 6 when far-right insurrectionists attacked the capitol. today we will spend the hour airing excerpts of the hearing. we begin with democratic congressmember zoe lofgren of california, who detailed how trump had developed a plan to declare victory in the 2020 election regardless of the actual outcome.

>> a few daybefore the election, mr. trump also consulted with one of his outside advisers, inside activist tom fitton, about the strategy for election night. the select committee got this pre-prepared statement from the national archives. as y can see, the draft statement, which was sent on october 31, declares, "we had an election today -- and i won." and the fitton memo specifically indicates a plan that only the votes counted by the election day deadline, and there is no election day deadline, would matter. everyone knew that ballot counting would lawfully continue past election day, claiming that the counting on election night must stop before millions of votes were counted was as we now know a key part of president

trump's pre-meditated plan. on election day, just after 5:00 p.m., mr. fitton indicated he'd spoken with the president about the statement. "sending along again. just talked to him about the draft below." again, this plan to keep -- to declare victory was in place before any of the results had been determined. in the course of our investigation, we also interviewed brad parscale, president trump's former campaign manager. he told us he understood that president trump planned as early as july that he would say he won the election even if he lost. and just a few days before the election, steve bannon, a former trump chief white house strategist and outside adviser to president trump, spoke to a group of his associates from

china and said this. >> and what trump's going to do is just declare victory, right? he's going to declare victory. but that doesn't mean he's the winner. the democrats -- more of our people vote early that count. theirs vote in mail, and so they're going to have a natural disadvantage and trump's going to take advantage of it. that's our strategy. he's going to declare himself a winner. so when you wake up wednesday morning, it's going to be a firestorm. >> also if trump is -- if trump is losing by 10:00 or 11:00 at night, it's going to be even crazier, you know, because he's going to sit right there and say they stole it. i'm directing the attorney general to shut down all ballot places in all 50 states. he's not going out easier. if biden is winning, trump is going to do some crazy shit. [beep]

>> as you know, mr. bannon refused to testify in our investigation. he's been convicted of criminal contempt of congress and he's awaiting sentencing. but the evidence indicates that mr. bannon had advance knowledge of mr. trump's intent to declare victory falsely on election night, but also that mr. bannon knew about mr. trump's planning for january 6. here is what bannon said on january 5. >> all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. it's all converging and now we're on, as they say, the point of attack, right? the point of attack tomorrow. i'll tell you this, it's not going to happen like you think it's going to happen. it's going to be quite extraordinarily different. and all i can say is strap in. , you have made this happen and tomorrow it's game day. so strap in, let's get ready. >> another close associate of donald trump apparently knew of mr. trump's intentions as well. roger stone is a political

operative with a reputation for dirty tricks. in november 2019, he was convicted of lying to congress and other crimes and sentenced to more than three years in prison. he's also a longtime adviser to president trump and was in communication with president trump throughout 2020. mr. trump pardoned roger stone on december 23, 2020. right before the election, here's roger stone talking about what president trump would do after the election. >> let's just hope we're celebrating. i suspect it'll be -- i really douspect it will still be up in the air. when that happens, the key thing to do is to claim victory. possession is 9/10 of the law. no, we won. sorry. over. we won. you're wrong. [beep] you.

>> the select committee called mr. stone as a witness, but he invoked his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. >> you believe the violence on january 6 was justified? >> on the advice of counsel, i respectfully decline to answer your question on the basis of the fifth amendment. >>nd mr. sne, did u have any le in anning for the violence on january 6? >> once agn, i wilassert m fifth amendment right to decline to answer your question. >> although we don't yet have all the relevant records of roger stone's communications, even stone's own social media posts acknowledge that he spoke with donald trump on december 27 as preparations for january 6 were underway. in this post, you can see how roger stone talked about his conversations with president trump.

he wrote -- "i also told the president exactly how he can appoint a special counsel with full subpoena power to ensure those who are attempting to steal the 2020 election through voter fraud are charged and convicted and to ensure donald trump continues as our president." as we know by now, the idea for a special counsel was not just an idle suggestion. it was something president trump had actually tried to do earlier that month. we know that roger stone was at the willard hotel on january 5th and 6th, and we know from other witness testimony that president trump asked his chief of staff mark meadows to speak with roger stone and general michael flynn that night. in addition to his connection to president trump, roger stone maintained extensive direct connections to two groups responsible for violently attacking the capitol, the oath keepers and the proud boys.

individuals from both of these organizations have been charged with the crime of seditious conspiracy. and what is seditious conspiracy? it is a conspiracy to use violent force against the united states, to oppose the lawful authority of the united states. multiple associates of roger stone from both the oath keepers and the proud boys have been charged with this crime. close associates of roger stone, including joshua james, have pled guilty to this crime. we know that at least seven oath keepers who have been criminally charged provided personal security for roger stone or were seen with him on january 6 or in the weeks leading up to january 6. for example, joshua james, the leader of the alabama oath keepers, provided security for roger stone and was with him on january 5. this is the picture of the two

together on january 5. james entered the capitol on january 6. he assaulted a police officer. earlier this year, he pled guilty to seditious conspiracy and obstruction of congress. another example is the married couple kelly and connie meggs. kelly meggs was the leader of the florida chapter of the oath keepers. both he and his wife provided security for roger stone, and both are charged with leading a military style stack attack of oath keepers, attacking the capitol on january 6. perhaps even more disturbing is roger stone's close association with enrique tarrio, the tional chaman of theroud boys. roger stone's connection with enrique tarrio and the proud

boys is well documented by video evidence, with phone records the select committee has obtained. tarrio, along with other proud boys, has been charged with multiple crimes concerning the attack on january 6, including seditious conspiracy. during the attack, tarrio sent a message to other proud boys claiming "we did that." he also visited the white house on december 12. later that day, he posd a disturbing video claiming credit for the attack. this video, posted on january 6, was apparently created prior to the attack. this big lie, president trump's effort to convince americans that he had won the 2020 election, began before the election results even came in. it was intentional. it was premeditated.

it was not based on election results or any evidence of actual fraud affecting the results or any actual problems with voting machines. it was a plan concocted in advance to convince his supporters that he won. and the people who seemingly knew about that plan in advance would ultimately play a significant role in the events of january 6. they that was so lofgren. the hearing also featured more unseen testimony introduced by republican congressmember adam kinzinger. >> on december 11, trump's allies lost the supreme court and he got it as his last chance at success in the courts. a newly obtained secret service message from that day shows how angry president trump was about the outcome. "just fyi, potus is pissed.

breaking news, supreme court denied his lawsuit. he is livid now." cassidy hutchinson, an aide to chief of staff mark meadows, was present for that conversation and described it in this way. >> this is the day that the supreme court had rejected that case. mr. meadows and i were in the white house residence at a christmas reception. and as we were walking back from the christmas reception that evening, the president was walking out of the oval office and we crossed paths in the rose garden colonnade. the president was fired up about the supreme court decision. and so i was standing next to mr. meadows, but i had stepped back probably two or three feet catty-cornered, diagonal from him. president raging about the decision and how it's wrong, and why didn't we make more calls, and just this typical anger outburst at this decision.

and the president said i think -- so he had said something to the effect of, i don't want people to know we lost, mark. this is embarrassing. figure it out. we need to figure it out. i don't want people to know that we lost. amy: that was former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. coming up, more of thursday's january 6 hearing. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: "problem with it" by plains. this is democracy now!,

democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. during thursday's hearing, video was aired showing that donald trump repeatedly made false claims about voter fraud that directly contradicted facts presented to him by top officials, including attorney general william barr and richard donoghue, the acting united states deputy attorney general. this is democratic congressmember elaine luria. >> donald trump was the driver behind each part of this plan. he was personally and directly involved. the key element at the plan is to convince tens of millions of americans that he did not in fact lose. again he did this even though his own campaign advisers and his justice department officials told him his claims of fraud were wrong. in this video, you will see even when top law enforcement officials told the president his election fraud claims were false, he still repeated the

claims in the days and weeks that followed, sometimes even the very next day. >> i specifically raised the dominion voting machines, which i found to be among the most disturbing allegations, disturbing in the sense that i saw absolutely zero basis for the allegations. i told them that it was -- that it was crazy stuff and they were wasting their time on that, and it was doing a grave disservice to the country. pres. trump: we have a company that's very suspect. its name is dominion. with the turn of a dial or the change of a chip, you could press a button for trump a the vote goes to biden. what kind of a system is this? >> we definitely talked about antrim county again. that was sort of done at that point because the hand recount had been done and all that. but we cited back to that to say, you know, this is an example of what people are telling you and what's being filed in some of these court filings that are just not

supported by the evidence. and this is the problem, the problem that people keep telling you these things and they turn out not to be true. >> six days after that meeting. pres. trump: in addition, there is the highly troubling matter of dominion voting systems. in one michigan county alone, 6000 votes were switched from trump to biden, and the same systems are used in the majority of states in our country. >> i went into this and would, you know, tell him how crazy some of these allegations were and how ridiculous some of them were. and i'm talking about some of the ones like, you know, more votes -- more absentee votes were cast in pennsylvania than there were absentee ballots request -- you know, stuff like that was just easy to blow up. there was never -- there was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were.

>> one day after that meeting. donald co. there were more votes than there were voters. think of that. you had more votes than you had voters. that's an easy one to figure, and it's by the thousands. >> then he raised the -- the big vote dump, as he called it, in detroit. and that -- you know, he said people saw boxes coming in to the counting station at all hours of the morning. and i said, mr. president, there are 630 precincts in detroit. and unlike elsewhere in the state, they centralized the counting process so they're not counted in each precinct. they're moved to counting stations. and so, the normal process would involve boxes coming in at all different hours. >> one day after that meeting. pres trump: this is michigan. at 6:31 in the morning, a vote dump of 149,772 votes came in unexpectedly

>> with regard to georgia, we looked at the tape. we interviewed the witnesses. there is no suitcase. the president kept fixating on this suitcase that supposedly had fraudulent ballots and that the suitcase was rolled out from under the table. and i said, no, sir, there is no suitcase. you can watch that video over and over. there is no suitcase. there is a wheeled bin where they carry the ballots, and that's just how they move ballots around that facility. there's nothing suspicious about that at all. >>0 days after that meeting. pres. trump: election officials pulled boxes, democrats, and sucases of ballots out from under a table. you all saw it on television. totally fraudulent. >> this happened over and over again. and our committee's report will document it. purposeful lies made in public directly at odds with what donald trump knew from unassailable sources, the justice department's own

investigations, and his own campaign. donald trump malicious repeated this nonsense to a wide audience over and over again. his intent was to deceive. president trump's plan also involved trying to coerce government officials to change the election outcome in the states he lost. he personally reached out to numerous state officials and pressured them to take unlawful steps to alter the election results in those states. these actions, taken directly by the president himself, made it clear what his intentions were -- prevent the orderly transfer two of power. we all recall, for example, president trump's tape recorded call with georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. at the time this call occurred, president trump had already been told repeatedly by the u.s. justice department, by his campaign, and by his advisers that his allegations of fraud in georgia were false.

pres. trump: so look, now all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. look, we need only 11,000 votes. we have far more than that as it stands now. we'll have more and more. so what are we going to do here, folks? if i only need 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. amy: that was president trump on the phone call with secretary of state brad raffensperger. during thursday's house january 6 hearing, adam schiff revealed the secret service and other agencies had prior knowledge of the potential of violence on january 6. >> days before january 6, the president senior advisers at the department of justice and fbi, for example, received no

intelligence summary that included material indicating certain people traveling to washington were making plans to attack the capitol. this summary noted online calls to occupy federal buildings, rhetoric about invading the capitol building, and plans to arm themselves and to engage in political violence at the event. other agencies were also hearing predictions suggesting possible violence at the capitol. on a call with president trump's white house national security staff in early january 2021, deputy secretary of defense david norquist had warned about the potential that the capitol would be the target of the attack. here is general mark milley, who was also present for this call, describing deputy secretary norquist's warning. >> so during these calls, i -- i only remember in hindsight because he was almost like clairvoyant.

norquist says during one of these calls, the greatest threat is a direct assault on the capitol. i'll never forget it. >> this email, for example, was an alert that the secret service received on december 24 with the heading "armed and ready, mr. president." according to the intelligence, multiple users online were targeting members of congress, instructing others to march into the chambers on january 6 and make sure they know who to fear. in this report received on december 26, the secret service field office relayed a tip that had been received by the fbi. according to the source of the tip, the proud boys plan to march armed into d.c. they think that they will have a large enough group to march into d.c. armed, the source reported, and will outnumber the police so they can't be stopped. the source went on to say their

plan is to literally kill people. please, please take this tip seriously and investigate further. the source also made clear that the proud boys had detailed their plans on multiple websites like thedonald.win. let's pause here. the secret service had advance information more than 10 days beforehand regarding the proud boys' planning for january 6. we know now, of course, that the proud boys and others did lead the assault on our capitol building. on december 31, agents circulated intelligence reports that president trump's supporters had proposed a movement to occupy capitol hill. in particular, they flagged spikes in violent hashtags like we are the storm, 1776 rebel, and occupy capitols. on january 5, a secret service open source unit flagged a

social media account on thedonald.win that threatened to bring a sniper rifle to a rally on january 6. the user also posted a picture of a handgun and rifle with the caption "sunday gun day providing overwatch january 6 will be wild." later on the evening of january 5, the secret service learned during an fbi briefing that right-wing groups were establishing armed qrfs or quick reaction forces readying to deploy for january 6. groups like the oath keepers were standing by at the ready should potus request assistance by invoking the insurrection act, agents were informed. amy: adam schiff. coming up more excerpts of the january 6 hearing. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break]

amy: named as one of the macarthur fellows of 2022. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the house january 6 committee also aired previously unseen video of house speaker nancy pelosi, senator chuck schumer, and others responding as the capitol was being attacked. the footage was filmed by pelosi's daughter, the

documentary filmmaker alexandra pelosi. some republicans have previously accused pelosi of failing to call the national guard to protect the capitol, but the footage aired on thursday sheds new light on her actions. we will play this new video in a moment. but first, let's go back to june. this is house minority whip steve scalise and fellow republican congressmember jim banks. >> pelosi was speaker pelosi involved to delay assistance on january 6? those are serious and real questions that this committee refuses to even ask. >>jim jim banks just race some very serious questions that should be answered by the january 6 commission, but they are not stop and they're not for a very specific reason and that is because nancy pelosi doesn't what those questions to be answered. america that is house minority web to school is questioning

house speaker nancy pelosi's response to the january 6 the tax. it turns out he was in the room when pelosi called the pentagon on speaker phone to request help. let's go back to thursday's january 6 hearing. this is democratic congressmember jamie raskin. >> the president watched the bloody attack unfold on fox news from dining room. members of congress and other government officials stepped into the gigantic leadership void created by the president's chilling and studied passivity that day. what you're about to see is previously unseen footage of congressional leaders, both republicans and democrats, as they were taken to a secure location during the riot. you'll see how everyone involved was working actively to stop the violence, to get federal law enforcement deployed to the scene, to put down the violence and secure the capitol complex. not just democrats like speaker nancy pelosi and house majority leader steny hoyer, but republicans like vice president pence, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, majority whip

john thune, and countless other appointees across the administration. all of them did what president trump was not doing, what he simply refused to do. take a listen. >> we're starting to get surrounded. they're taking the north front scaffolding. unless we get more munitions, we are not going to be able to hold. the door has been breached and people are gaining access into the capitol. >> but you know what? we have got to get the senate to finish the proceedings. >> senator schumer is at a secure location, and they're locked down in the senate. >> there has to be some way we can maintain the sense that people have that there is some

security or some confidence that government can function and that we can elect the president of united states. did we go back into session? >> we did go back into session, but now apparently everybody on the floor is putting on tear gas masks to prepare for a breach. i'm trying to get more information. >> they're putting on their -- >> tear gas masks. >> do you beeve this do you believe this? >> i can't. >> we need a area for the house members. they're all walking over now through the tunnel. >> i'm going to call up the secretary of dod. we have some senators who are still in their hideaways. they need massive personnel now. can you get the maryland national guard to come, too?

>> i have something to say, mr. secretary. i'm going to call the mayor of washington, d.c., right now and see what other outreach she has to other police departments, as steny -- leader hoyer has mentioned. officer down. get him up. >> hi, governor. this is nancy. governor, i don't know if you have been approached about the virginia national guard. mr. hoyer was connect -- speaking to governor hogan, but i still think you probably need the ok of the federal government in order to come in to another jurisdiction. thank you. >> i called the secretary of the army. >> oh, my gosh, they're just breaking windows. they're doing all -- they said somebody was shot. it is just horrendous. and all at the instigation of

the president of the united states. ok, thank you, governor. i appreciate what you're doing. and if you don't mind, i'd like to stay in touch. thank you. thank you. >> virginia guard has been called in. >> i was just talked to governor northam, and what he said is they sent 200 state police and a unit of the national guard. they're breaking windows and going in, obviously, ransacking our offices and all the rest of that. that's nothing. the concern we have about personal harm. >> safety. >> personal safety is -- it just transcends everything. but the fact is on any given day, they're breaking the law in many different ways. and quite frankly, much of it at the instigation of the president of the unitestates. and now if he could -- could -- at least somebody -- >> yeah, why don't you get the

president to tell them to leave the capitol, mr. attorney general, in your law enforcement responsibility? a public statement they should all leave? >> usa! usa! usa! >> this cannot be just we're waiting for so-and-so. we need them there now, whoever you got, ok? you also have troops -- this is steny hoyer, troops -- >> ok, so we have a little bit of time to make that decision -- fort mcnair, andrews air force >>fort mcnair, andrews air force base -- other military bases. how soon in the future can you have the place evacuated and the whole thing cleaned out? >> i don't want to speak for the leadership that's going to be responsible for executing the operation, so i'm not going to say that. because they are meeting on the ground and they're the experts >> well, just pretend -- just pretend for a moment it was the pentagon or the white house or some other entity that was under siege.

let me say you can logistically get people there as you make the plan. >> we're trying to figure out how we can get this job done today. we talked to mitch about it earlier. he's not in the room right now, but he was with us earlier and said, you know, we want to expedite this and hopefully they could confine it to just one complaint, arizona, and then we could vote and that would be -- you knowthen just move forward with the rest of the state. the overriding wish is to do it at the capitol. what we are being told very directly is it's going take days for the capitol to be ok again. we've gotten a very bad report about the condition of the house floor, defecation and all that kind of thing as well.

i don't think that that's hard to clean up, but i do think it is more from a security standpoint of making sure that everybody is out of the building and how long will that take. i just got off with the vice president. >> and i got off with the vice-president elect. >> ok. but what we left the conversation with, because he said he had the impression from mitch that mitch wanted to get everybody back to do it there. >> yes. >> i said, we'll, we're getting a counter point that is -- that could take time to clean up the poo poo that they're making all over the -- literally and figuratively in the capitol, and that it may take days to get back. vice pres. pence: nancy, so i'm at the capitol building. i'm literally standing with the u.s. capitol police. he just informed me what you will hear through official channels, paul irving, your sergeant-at-arms, will inform you that their best information is that they believe that the

house and the senate will be able to reconvene in roughly an hour. >> good news. vice pres. pence: your sergeant at arms will be in touch about the process for getting members back into the building. >> thank you very much, mr. vice president. amy: that was nancy pelosi speaking to then vice president mike pence. she was at fort mcnair the other legislators. previously unseen video. thursday, conclusion of a subpoena to donald trump. >> we have no doubt that donald trump led an effort to of been american democracy that directly resulted in the violence of january 6. he tried to take away the voice of the american people in

choosing their president and replace the will of the voters with his will to remain in power. he is the one person at the center of the story of what happened on january 6, so we want to hear from him. the committee needs to do everything in our power to tell the most complete story possible and provide recommendations to help ensure nothing like january 6 ever happens again. we need to be fair and thorough and gain a full context for the evidence we've obtained. but the need for this committee to hear from donald trump goes beyond our fact finding. this is a question about accountability to the american people. he must be accountable. he is required to answer for his actions. he's required to answer to those police officers who put their lives and bodies on the line to defend our democracy.

he's required to answer to those millions of americans who votes he wanted to throw out as part of his scheme to remain in power. and whatever is underway to ensure this accountability under law, this committee will demand a full accounting to every american person of the events of january 6. so it is our obligation to seek donald trump's testimony. there's precedent in american history for congress to compel the testimony of a president. there's also precedent for presidents to provide testimony and documentary evidence to congressional investigators. we also recognize that a subpoena to a former president is a serious and extraordinary action. that's why we want to take this step in full view of the american people, especially

because the subject matter at issue is so important to the american people and the stakes are so high for our future and our democracy. and so i recognize the vice chair, ms. cheney of wyoming, to offer a motion. >> mr. chairman, pursuant to today's notice, i send to the desk a committee resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. >> the clerk will report the resolution. >> committee resolution 1, resolved, that the chairman be and is hereby directed to subpoena donald j. trump for documents and testimony in connection with the january 6 attack on the united states capitol, pursuant to section 5 of house resolution 503 and clause 2m of rule xi of the rules of the house of representatives.

>> the gentlewoman from wyoming is recognized on her resolution. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, our committee now has sufficient information to answer many of the critical questions posed by congress at the outset. we have sufficient information to consider criminal referrals for multiple individuals and to recommend a range of legislative proposals to guard against another january 6, but a key task remains. we must seek the testimony under oath of january 6's central player. more than 30 witnesses in our investigation have invoked their fifth amendment right against self-incrimination, and several of those did so specifically in response to questions about their dealings with donald trump directly. here are a few examples. this is roger stone with oath keepers at the willard hotel on the morning of january 6.

and here is mr. stone testifying before our committee. >> did you speak to president trump on his private cell phone on either january 5 or january 6? >> once again, on the advice of counsel, i will assert my fifth amendment right to respectfully decline to answer your question. >> this is general michael flynn walking with oath keepers on december 12, 2020. and here is general flynn's testimony before our committee. >> did you, general flynn, talk to presint trump at any point on january 6, 2021? >> the fifth. >> here is john eastman fraudulently instructing tens of thousands of angry protesters that the vice president could change the election outcome on january 6. later on this same day, dr. eastman acknowledged in writing that donald trump knew what he

was attempting was illegal. here is john eastman testifying before our committee. >> did president trump authorize you to discuss publicly your january 4, 2021 conversation with him? >> fifth. >> so is it your position that you can discuss in the media direct conversations you had with the president of the united states, but you will not discuss those same conversations with this committee. >> fifth. >> here is jeff clark who conspired with donald trump to corrupt the department of justice. president trump wanted to appoint jeff clark as acting attorney general. and as you can see in this call log we obtained from the national archives, he did so. and here is mr. clark testifying before our committee. >> mr. clark, when did you first talk directly with president trump? >> fifth. >> mr. clark, did you discuss with president trump allegations of fraud in the 2020 election?

>> fifth. >> other witnesses have also gone to enormous lengths to avoid testifying about their dealings with donald trump. steve bannon has been tried and convicted by a jury of his peers for contempt of congress. he is scheduled to be sentenced for this crime later this month. criminal proceedings regarding peter navarro continue. and mark meadows, donald trump's former chief of staff, has refused to testify based upon executive privilege. the committee's litigation with him continues. mr. chairman, at some point the department of justice may well unearth the facts that these and other witnesses are currently concealing. but our duty today is to our country and our children and our constitution. we are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion.

and every american is entitled to those answers, so we can act now to protect our republic. so this afternoon, i am offering this resolution that the committee direct the chairman to issue a subpoena for relevant documents and testimony under oath from donald john trump in connection with the january 6 attack on the united states capitol. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. >> the gentlelady yields back. if there's no further debate, the question is on agreeing to the resolution. those in favor will say aye. >> aye. >> those opposes, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. >> mr. chairman, i request a recorded vote. >> a recorded vote is requested. the clerk will call the roll. >> ms. cheney? >> aye. >> ms. cheney, aye. ms. lofgren?

>> aye. >> ms. lofgren, aye. mr. schiff? >> aye. >> mr. schiff, aye. mr. aguilar? >> aye. >> mr. aguilar, aye. mrs. murphy? >> aye. folks mrs. murphy, aye. mr. raskin? >> aye. >> mr. raskin, aye. mrs. luria? >> aye. >> mrs. luria, aye. mr. kinzinger? >> aye. folks mr. kinzinger, aye. mr. chairman? >> aye. mr. chairman, aye. >> the clerk will report the >> the clerk will report the vote. >> mr. chairman, on this vote there are 9 ayes and zero nos. >> the resolution is agreed to. amy: and that is how thursday's hearing and a post of the video aired of house speaker nancy pelosi recorded on january 6 was filled i her daughter documentary the maker alexandra pelosi and has never been publicly seen before yesterday. after the hearing, cnn aired additional footage shot by

alexander of the house speaker reacting to donald trump's speech at the ellipse on january 6. amy: that does it for our show. happy belated birthday to our miguel noguiera and an early happy birthday to juan gonzalez! today is my precious pup's second birthday. democracy now! is currently accepting applications for an associate digital editor and a people and culture manager.

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