The committee has released data that shows Ivanka had asked her father to intervene to stop the riots not once, but twice. Trump ignored it and let it happen.

Rep. Liz Cheney says the January 6 committee has 'firsthand testimony' that Ivanka Trump tried 'at least twice' to get her father to stop the Capitol riot

• Rep. Liz Cheney said the January 6 panel heard testimony of efforts to get Trump to stop the riot.
• "We have firsthand testimony that his daughter Ivanka went in at least twice," Cheney told ABC.
• Cheney described Trump's failure to act to quell the insurrection as "a dereliction of duty."

  The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection had "firsthand testimony" that former President Donald Trump watched the chaos of the Capitol riot while resisting pleas from those closest to him, including his daughter Ivanka, to step in, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney said.

  Cheney, the panel's ranking member, discussed the committee's progress and latest findings in Sunday appearances on ABC News' "This Week" and CBS News' "Face the Nation." The panel heard testimony corroborating previous news reports and books about Trump's inaction in the face of desperate pleas to quell the riots, she said.

  "The committee has firsthand testimony now that he was sitting in the dining room next to the Oval Office watching the attack on television as the assault on the Capitol occurred," Cheney told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos. She added that Trump "could have easily" walked the few steps to the White House briefing room to tell the rioters to stand down and go home. 

  His failure to do so, Cheney said, represented "a dereliction of duty." 

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I have a very big problem with this. Both Ivanka and Don Jr tried to have their father make a statement to stop the riot. He ignored them. Don through Meadows and Ivanka directly.

Hmm

If this is what our democracy has become, this committee shows our democracy has failed and failed big time.  Were is the bipartisan commission required by legislature rules.  If you paid attention you would know that the republican leadership appointed republicans to the committee.  Nancy rejected them and appointed two of her choice.  This is not a bipartisan committee, it is a kangaroo court, it is NOT a Select House Committee With valid standing.

Now if only republicans had a committee on Biden's lack of supporting US Coustom laws, you would consider any finding as invalid, same consideration on this committee, it's finding are invalid.

Facts are facts, whether they come from a Democrat, a Republican or an Independent. 

Watch and see what comes out of the committee's investigation- such as the Trump kids refusing to testify. Gosh, that's not suspiscious at all, is it?

Oh, and what could Trump want to keep hidden? He's dumb enough to solicit election corruption from Brad Raffensperger on a recorded phone.

 

Court rejects Trump’s efforts to keep records from Jan. 6 committee

Politics Dec 9, 2021 4:54 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Thursday against an effort by President Donald Trump to shield documents from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.

The three-judge panel said there was a “unique legislative need” for documents that the committee has requested but whose release Trump has sought to block through executive privilege.

The appeals court ruled that the injunction that has prevented the National Archives from turning over the documents will expire in two weeks, or when the Supreme Court rules on an expected appeal from Trump, whichever is later.

The House committee and Trump representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment Thursday.

READ MORE: Meadows won’t cooperate with Jan. 6 panel after breakdown in negotiations, attorney says

Trump sued the House Jan. 6 committee and the National Archives to stop the White House from allowing the release of documents related to the insurrection. President Joe Biden had waived Trump’s executive privilege claims as the current officeholder.

The National Archives has said that the records Trump wants to block include presidential diaries, visitor logs, speech drafts, handwritten notes “concerning the events of January 6” from the files of former chief of staff Mark Meadows, and “a draft Executive Order on the topic of election integrity.”

Arguing for the committee, U.S. House lawyer Douglas Letter argued that the determination of a current president should outweigh predecessors in almost all circumstances and noted that both Biden and Congress were in agreement that the Jan. 6 records should be turned over.

All three of the appeals court judges who heard the arguments were nominated by Democrats. Millett and Judge Robert Wilkins were nominated by former President Barack Obama. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is a Biden appointee seen as a contender for a Supreme Court seat should one open during the current administration.

 

Trumps records are still withheld.

Court Rejects Trump Bid to Block Records From House Jan. 6 Panel

 

 

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have indicated they would likely appeal the judgment to the Supreme Court.

PHOTO: OCTAVIO JONES/REUTERS

By Byron Tau Follow

 

Updated Dec. 9, 2021 9:09 pm ET

 

WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court rejected former President Donald Trump’s request to deny the special House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol access to records from his presidency.

In a decision released Thursday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to block the National Archives from turning over some of Mr. Trump’s papers sought by the House special committee. Mr. Trump had claimed the papers were privileged and asked a court to block their release.

“On the record before us, former President Trump has provided no basis for this court to override President Biden’s judgment and the agreement and accommodations worked out between the Political Branches over these documents,” concluded the three-judge panel that heard the case, referring to the executive and legislative branches of the government.

“Both Branches agree that there is a unique legislative need for these documents and that they are directly relevant to the Committee’s inquiry into an attack on the Legislative Branch and its constitutional role in the peaceful transfer of power,” the judges wrote.

 

Lawyers for Mr. Trump didn’t respond to a request for comment. They earlier indicated they would likely appeal a judgment against the former president to the Supreme Court.

When Rioters Stormed the Capitol: How the Day Unfolded

A congressional exercise in the peaceful transfer of power devolved into deadly chaos when a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol. Hours after the riots, Congress reconvened and certified President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Photo: Carol Guzy/ZUMA Wire (Video from Jan. 7, 2021)

Select committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D., Miss.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.) said in a statement: “We applaud the court’s decisive ruling, which respects the select committee’s interest in obtaining White House records and the president’s judgment in allowing those records to be produced. Our work moves ahead swiftly. We will get to the truth.”

The case began earlier this year when Mr. Trump brought suit to stop an array of records from his time in office from being turned over to the House select committee. The panel was established by House lawmakers in a June vote almost entirely along party lines after Senate Republicans blocked an earlier effort to set up a bipartisan independent commission to probe the attack on the Capitol. The panel is composed of Democrats and two Republicans who have been critics of Mr. Trump, a Republican.

The House select committee has sought records related to communications about Mr. Trump’s speech to his supporters before they converged on the Capitol to try to prevent the certification of Mr. Biden’s election victory, as well as the response within the White House once violence began to unfold, among other things.

A district court in Washington ruled against Mr. Trump last month, with U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan writing: “The public interest lies in permitting—not enjoining—the combined will of the legislative and executive branches to study the events that led to and occurred on January 6, and to consider legislation to prevent such events from ever occurring again.”

The records in question belong to the U.S., not Mr. Trump personally. Lawyers representing Mr. Biden have determined that Congress should get the records and declined to assert executive privilege, a doctrine allowing the White House to shield some of its records from scrutiny to preserve the candor of advice.

 

Lawyers for Mr. Trump argued that a 1976 Supreme Court case, Nixon v. General Services Administration, gave former presidents some control over how records from their time in office are treated. In that decision, the court affirmed that former presidents had some legal interests in records from their time in office but stopped short in issuing any definitive guidance about how courts should consider those interests or how disputes should be resolved.

The work of the Jan. 6 committee has already prompted numerous court fights. In addition to Mr. Trump’s appeal, several of Mr. Trump’s former aides and confidants have refused to appear before the panel. Along with the contempt-of-Congress charges against former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, lawmakers have been considering contempt referrals against other officials, including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

Mr. Meadows sued House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and members of the Jan. 6 committee on Wednesday after the panel indicated it would move to hold him in criminal contempt of Congress.

Write to Byron Tau at byron.tau@wsj.com

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Appeared in the December 10, 2021, print edition as 'Court Rejects Trump Request To Block Records From Panel.'

You don't get to just make a blanket statement that the committe has no credibility. 

Please take off your partisan hat.

There is recorded sworn testimony and it was reported by a Republican. If and when you hear the recorded testimony of people who were in the room and you hear something other than "Ivanka came in at least two times"...and that sworn testimony is in question, then you get to credibly challenge it. Just saying "it ain't so" won't work.

Your approach to debate this point is a white-wash.

There is sworn testimony:

Republican Rep. Liz Cheney says the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots has "firsthand testimony" that Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka, was among those who attempted to persuade the then-president to condemn the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

So during the 87 minutes that Trump ended his speech and him requesting the crowd to go home, he watched tv and people said to him he should do something.  HE DID!

Now if you want to claim, he took to long, OK! 

But it is not the Big deal you are trying to make!  Who cares, he asked during the speech "to be peaceful" and after the speech when things got out of control he "asked the protesters to go home."  That is the facts!

one more fact, in his concern that things could get out of control, the week before he offered To Nancy National Guard Troops for Capital security.  She turned him down.  

Not a blanket statement about the committee, the committee has NO credibility, NOW if it was a properly organized committee the findings could have some credibility.  You can not deny that it isn't a kangaroo court!

You're not being fair or rational in your argumetn that the committee has "no credibility". 

Again, let's remove our partisan hats.

Please let me know why the committee has no credibility

If there is video evidence of a 1st hand account of someone, close to Trump, that says Ivanka came in at least two times to ask him to stop, that's not credible? Why?

Moreso, you don't even know who said it yet or have any details about the evidence to make an argument that it should be discounted, and, it was a Republican who publicly went on the record to state that fact. If it was not true, do you not think Ivanka would have denied it? 

Also, Don Jr has not denied (as far as I've heard) that he texted mark meadows to also ask his father to stop and put out a statement. 

Mark Meadows turned over the texts...and he has not denid it either.

At some point, you can't use a Whitewash and just say "anything that comes from the committee is wrong"...

Critical thinking woudl say "Let's evaluate the merits of each piece of evidence and test its veracity" - Are you willing to do that?

It is not against the law for people to talk to Trump, and even give him advise.  1000 people could have said to Trump that he should try to stop the protest. It is not illegal, no one lied and Trump did what they asked.

What hell is anyone trying to make a big deal out of this.  One more time, 

HE DID ASK THE PROTESTERS TO GO HOME!

He asked for the protestors to go home WAY LATE IN TEH GAME... WAY LATE.

How many people approached him to make a statement...

You're treatung this this is a binary ... "Oh, well, he asked them to go home" - He needed to do it A LOT EARLIER. He did it, when he did it, so it could go on the record that he said it so that he has a scapegoat, "Well, I asked them to go home"

His timing was so late that Ivanka, Don Jr, Hannity, and other fox personalities were begging and pleading for him to make a statement. 

More data coming out that Trump was watching the violence and riots unfold and chose to do nothing 

Here's the timeline - You judge for yourself, Old Guy, if his statement was "Timely" or just for show - Riots started at 2:11 -- Evacuation started at 2:20 - Trump uploads video to TWITTER, not even to the news, at 4:17 PM -- TWO HOURS LATER ... TWO HOURS LATER ... You simply cannot make the argument that "Well, he called for them to go home" - 

This is why your argument is completely invalid. You cannot see a riot going on for 2 hours, the house being evacuated, and wait TWO HOURS to make a statement for them to "leave peacefully". Those were CMA words and very carefully calculated. This is after multiple people were begging / pleading for him to make a statement. Don JR texted Mark Meadows multipe times

• 1:13 a.m.: Ali Alexander, Stop the Steal organizer, tweets "First official day of the rebellion."
• 3:23 a.m.: Ron Watkins, imageboard administrator and prominent QAnon figure, posts a tweet accusing Vice President Mike Pence of orchestrating a coup against Trump. He also linked to a blog post which called for "the immediate arrest of [Pence], for treason."^[79][80][81]
• 8:17 a.m.: President Trump tweets allegations of vote fraud, stating,

  "States want to correct their votes, which they now know were based on irregularities and fraud, plus corrupt process never received legislative approval. All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the States, AND WE WIN. Do it Mike, this is a time for extreme courage!"^[82]

• 9:00 a.m.: At start time on permit for First Amendment rally "March for Trump" speeches,^[59] the "Save America" rally (or "March to Save America") begins. Above the podium at The Ellipse are banners for "Save America March".^[83]
  Mo Brooks (R–AL) makes a speech about "kicking ass", asking "Will you fight for America?"^[84][85]
• 9:45 a.m.: A Federal Protective Service liaison officer informs the Capitol Police that more than the permitted 30,000 protesters are expected at the Ellipse, the Freedom Plaza permit was increased from 5,000 to 30,000, and the protest outside the Sylven Theater is permitted for 15,000.^[75]
• 10:30 a.m.: Benjamin Philips splits from his group to park, not reuniting but later dying from a stroke at George Washington University Hospital.^[86]
• 10:50 a.m.: During Rudy Giuliani's speech he calls for "trial by combat".^[87]
• 10:58 a.m.: a Proud Boys contingent leaves the rally, and marches toward the Capitol Building.^[88]
• 11:00 a.m.: The Ellipse, located south of the White House, is filled with Trump supporters.^[82]
• 11:30 a.m.: Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher C. Miller participates in a tabletop exercise on Department of Defense contingency response options for the D.C. protests.^[89]

 

A member of a group of Proud Boys east of the Capitol makes the White power OK gesture at 11:54 a.m.

• 12:00 p.m.:
  • President Trump begins his over one-hour speech.^[82] He repeats allegations that the election was stolen, criticizing Vice President Mike Pence by name a half-dozen times, accusing fellow Republicans of not doing enough to back up his allegations, and stating that he would walk with the crowd to the Capitol, though he retires to the White House immediately after the speech.^[90]
  • A Federal Protective Service briefing email states that there are about 300 Proud Boys at the Capitol, a man in a tree near the Ellipse is holding what looks like a rifle, and some of the 25,000 people around the White House are hiding bags in bushes.^[75] The email warns that the Proud Boys are threatening to shut down the downtown water system.^[75]
• 12:05 p.m.: Rep. Paul Gosar tweets that Biden should concede and demands his concession by the next morning.^[91][92]
• 12:20 p.m.: A Federal Protective Service officer writes in an email, "POTUS is encouraging the protesters to march to capitol grounds and continue protesting there."^[75]
• 12:28 p.m.: A Federal Protective Service officer reports 10,000-15,000 people moving towards the Capitol down Pennsylvania, Constitution, and Madison Avenues.^[75]

 

Pro-Trump supporters gathering outside the east plaza of the Capitol at 12:09 p.m.

• 12:30 p.m.: Crowds of pro-Trump supporters gather outside the U.S. Capitol building.^[93]
• 12:49 p.m.:
  • Capitol Police respond to a report of a possible explosive device at the Republican National Committee Headquarters, which is later identified as a pipe bomb. Shortly afterwards, a second pipe bomb is found at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee.^[94][93] Buildings next to these headquarters are evacuated.^[95]
  • A police sweep of the area identifies a vehicle which held one handgun, an M4 Carbine assault rifle with loaded magazine, and components for 11 Molotov cocktails with homemade napalm. Around 6:30 p.m, the driver was apprehended carrying two unregistered handguns as he returned to the vehicle. He is not suspected of planting the pipe bombs.^[95][96]
• 12:53 p.m.: Rioters overwhelm police along the outer perimeter west of the Capitol building, pushing aside temporary fencing. Some protesters immediately follow, while others, at least initially, remain behind and admonish the others: "Don't do it. You're breaking the law."^[97] By 1:03 p.m., a vanguard of rioters have overrun three layers of barricades and have forced police officers to the base of the west Capitol steps.^[94]
• 12:57 p.m.: Federal Protective Service officers report that the Capitol Police barricade on the west side of the Capitol building has been breached by a large group.^[75]
• 12:58 p.m.: Chief Sund asks House Sergeant at Arms Paul D. Irving and Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael C. Stenger to declare an emergency and call for deployment of the National Guard. Irving and Stenger state that they will forward the request up their chains of command. Soon afterwards, aides to Congressional leaders arrive in Stenger's office and are outraged to learn that he has not yet called for any reinforcement.^[93] Phone records obtained at the Senate Hearings reflect that Sund first reached out to Irving to request the National Guard at 12:58 p.m. on the day of the attack. Sund then called the Senate sergeant-at-arms at the time, Michael Stenger, at 1:05 p.m. Sund repeated his request in a call at 1:28 p.m. and then again at 1:34 p.m., 1:39 p.m. and 1:45 p.m. that day.^[98]
• 1:00 p.m.:
  • Senators and Vice President Pence walk to the House chamber.^[82]
  • Pence releases a letter stating that the Constitution prevents him from unilaterally interfering with the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count.^[82]
  • US Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund calls D.C. Metropolitan Police Chief Contee, who deploys 100 officers to the Capitol complex, the earliest arriving within 10 minutes.^[93]
• 1:05 p.m.:
  • Congress meets in joint session to confirm Joe Biden's electoral victory.^[82]
  • Acting Secretary of Defense Miller receives open source intelligence reports of demonstrators moving towards the U.S. Capitol.^[89]
• 1:10 p.m.: President Trump ends his speech by encouraging the crowd to march to the Capitol: "We’re going to try and give them [Republicans] the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country."^[89]
• 1:12 p.m.: Rep. Paul Gosar (R–AZ) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R–TX) object to certifying the votes made in the 2020 United States presidential election in Arizona. The joint session separates into House and Senate chambers to debate the objection.^[82]
• 1:26 p.m.: The U.S. Capitol Police order evacuation of at least two buildings in the Capitol complex, including the Cannon House Office Building and the Madison Building of the Library of Congress.^{[89][99][100]}
• 1:30 p.m.:
  • Capitol Police are overwhelmed and forced to retreat up the steps of the Capitol.^[82]
  • Large numbers of Trump supporters march from the Ellipse 1.5 miles down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol.
• 1:34 p.m.: D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser requests via phone that Army Secretary Ryan D. McCarthy provide an unspecified number of additional forces.^[89]
• 1:35 p.m.: In Senate deliberations, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R–KY) warns that refusing to certify the results of the presidential election under false pretenses would push American democracy into a "death spiral".^[82]
• 1:49 p.m.: Capitol Police Chief Sund requests immediate assistance from District of Columbia National Guard (DCNG) Commander Major General William J. Walker.^[89][73] Major General Walker loads guardsmen onto buses in anticipation of receiving permission from the Secretary of the Army to deploy.^[73]
• 1:50 p.m.: D.C. Metropolitan Police on-scene incident commander Robert Glover declares a riot.^[101]
• 1:51 p.m.:
  • Trump supporter Alex Jones speaks from a bullhorn to the crowd on west side exhorting them to remain peaceful and to "not fight the police." He directs them to "the other [East] side" where he claims they have a permit and a stage.^[102]
  • Radio talk show host and former FEMA> director Michael D. Brown tweets the baseless claim that the people breaching Capitol security are likely antifa, Black Lives Matter protestors, or other insurgents disguised as Trump supporters, and suggests the attack could be a psychological warfare operation.^[103][104]
• 1:54 p.m.: Todd Herman, guest hosting The Rush Limbaugh Show, informs his large national radio audience of Brown's claim that the people breaching security are not Trump supporters.^[103][105]
• 1:58 p.m.: Along the east side of the Capitol, a much smaller police presence retreats from a different mob, removing a barrier along the northeast corner of the building. At 2:00 p.m. the mob removes the last barrier protecting the east side of the Capitol.^[94]
• 1:59 p.m.: Chief Sund receives the first reports that rioters had reached the Capitol's doors and windows and were trying to break in.^[106]
• 2:05 p.m.: Kevin Greeson is declared dead after suffering a heart attack outdoors on the Capitol grounds.^[107]
• 2:10 p.m.:
  • The mob west of the Capitol chase police up the steps, breaching the final barricade and approach an entrance directly below the Senate chamber.^[94]
  • House Sergeant at Arms Irving calls Chief Sund with formal approval to request assistance from the National Guard.^[93]

 

(Bladeslap Note) - Rioters start at 2:11PM

 

Floorplan of the first floor of the Senate side of the Capitol. "A" indicates the location of the first breach into the building at 2:11 p.m. "B" indicates the location of a Capitol Police officer in a doorway before retreating up stairs at 2:14 p.m.

• 2:11 p.m.: Rioter Dominic Pezzola breaks a window on the northwest side of the Capitol with a plastic shield.^[106]
• 2:12 p.m.: The first rioter enters the Capitol through the broken window,^[106] opening a door for others.^[94]

 

C-SPAN broadcast of the Senate going into recess after rioters infiltrate the Capitol

• 2:13 p.m.: Vice President Pence is removed from the Senate chamber to a nearby office.^[106] The Senate is gaveled into recess.^[94]
• 2:14 p.m.:
  • Rioters chase a lone Capitol Police officer up northwest stairs, where there are doors to the Senate chamber in both directions, as police inside the chamber attempt to lock doors.^[94] If the mob had arrived about a minute earlier, it would have been in sight of Vice President Pence as he was moved into an office about 100 feet from the landing.^[106] Officer Eugene Goodman leads the mob to backup in front of a set of Senate doors while senators inside attempt to evacuate.^[94]
  • As Representative Gosar speaks to the House against certifying Arizona's electoral votes, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D–CA) is removed from the chamber by her protective detail.^[72]
  • Federal Protective Service officers report that the Capitol has been breached.^[75]
• 2:16 p.m.: Federal Protective Service officers report that the House and Senate are being locked down.^[75]
• 2:20 p.m.: The House is gaveled into recess and starts to evacuate.^[82]
• 2:22 p.m.: Army Secretary McCarthy has a phone call with Mayor Bowser, D.C. Deputy Mayor John Falcicchio, Director of the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency Christopher Rodriguez, and leadership of the Metropolitan Police in which additional DCNG support is requested.^[89]
• 2:23 p.m.: Rioters attempt to breach the police line formed by barricades of bicycle racks. As a police lieutenant sprays the crowd with a chemical substance, rioter Julian Elie Khater raises his arm above the mob and sprays a chemical substance toward United States Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, who dies the following day from a stroke.^[108][109]
• 2:24 p.m.: President Trump tweets,

  "Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!"^[82]

• 2:25 p.m.: Army Secretary McCarthy ordered staff to prepare movement of the emergency reaction force, which could be ready in 20 minutes, to the Capitol.^[110]
• 2:26 p.m.: D.C.'s homeland security director Chris Rodriquez coordinates a conference call with Mayor Bowser, the chiefs of the Capitol Police (Sund) and Metropolitan Police (Contee), and DCNG Maj. Gen. Walker. As the DCNG does not report to a governor, but to the President, Maj. Gen. Walker patched in the Office of the Secretary of the Army, noting that he would need Pentagon authorization to deploy. Lt. Gen. Walter E. Piatt, director of the Army Staff, noted that the Pentagon needed Capitol Police authorization to step onto Capitol grounds. Sund began describing the breach by rioters but the call became unintelligible as multiple people began asking questions at the same time. Metro Police Chief Robert Contee asked for clarification from Capitol Police Chief Sund: "Steve, are you requesting National Guard assistance at the Capitol?" to which Chief Sund replied, "I am making urgent, urgent, immediate request for National Guard assistance." According to Sund, Lt. Gen. Piatt stated, "I don't like the visual of the National Guard standing a police line with the Capitol in the background", and that he prefer that the Guard relieve police posts around D.C. to allow police to deploy to the Capitol. Sund pleaded with Lt. Gen. Piatt to send the Guard, but Lt. Gen. Piatt stated that only Army Secretary McCarthy had the authority to approve such a request and he could not recommend that Secretary McCarthy approve the request for assistance directly to the Capitol. The D.C. officials were subsequently described as "flabbergasted" at this message. McCarthy would later state that he was not in this conference call because he was already entering a meeting with senior Department leadership.^[93] Piatt contests this description of the call, denying that he talked about visuals and stating that he stayed on the conference call while senior Defense Department officials were meeting.^[111] The Army falsely denied for two weeks that Lt. Gen. Charles A. Flynn - the Army deputy chief of staff for operations, plans and training - was in this call. His brother Michael Flynn, a retired Trump National Security Advisor, had pledged an oath to the QAnon conspiracy theory, though there are no indications that Lt. Gen. Flynn shares his brother's beliefs.^[112]
• 2:26 p.m.:
  • Trump calls Senator Mike Lee (R–UT), having misdialed Senator Tommy Tuberville (R–AL). Lee passes his phone to Tuberville, who informs Trump that Pence had just been evacuated from the Senate chamber. “I said ‘Mr President, they've taken the Vice President out. They want me to get off the phone, I gotta go’,” he recounted to reporters of his call.^[113]
  • After receipt of a call from D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser indicating that DoD had refused to send assistance to the U.S. Capitol, the Public Safety Secretary of Virginia, Brian Moran, dispatches the Virginia State Police to the Capitol as permitted by mutual aid agreement with D.C.^[114]
  • Security video shows Secret Service moving the Vice President and his family to a new secure location.
• 2:28 p.m.: Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund reiterates his request for National Guard support to help shore up the perimeter of the Capitol.^[115]
• 2:30 p.m.:
  • Secretary Miller, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, and Army Secretary McCarthy meet to discuss Capitol Police and D.C. government requests.^[89]
  • Shortly before this time, The Washington Times publishes a story by Rowan Scarborough falsely claiming facial recognition company XRVision identified antifa members among the crowd at the Capitol.^[103][116] The Times corrects the story the next day after BuzzFeed News reports that XRVision threatened the Times with legal action over the story.^[116] Before the correction, the story amasses 360,000 shares and likes on Facebook.^[103]
• 2:38 p.m.: President Trump tweets,

  "Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!"^[82]

 

West steps of the Capitol at 2:46 p.m.

• 2:44 p.m.: Rioter Ashli Babbitt is shot by Capitol Police while attempting to force entry into the Speaker's Lobby adjacent to the House chambers by climbing through a window that led to the House floor.^[117][110]
• 2:45 p.m.: Federal Protective Service officers report, "Shots fired 2nd floor house side inside the capitol."^[75]
• 2:49 p.m.: After discussion with his chief of staff, Clark Mercer, the Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, activates all available assets of the State of Virginia including the Virginia National Guard to aid the US capitol. Authorization from DoD required for legal deployment of Virginia National Guard in D.C. was not granted.^[114][118]
• 3:04 p.m.: Secretary Miller, with advice from senior Defense leadership, formally approves "activation" of the 1,100 soldiers in the DCNG. Army Secretary McCarthy orders the DCNG to begin full "mobilization".^[89] Despite this, Miller "did not approve an operational plan to deploy the National Guard to the Capitol until 4:32 p.m."^[119][93]

 

Video posted by Senator Bill Cassidy (R–LA) to Twitter at 3:10 p.m.

• 3:05 p.m.: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R–CA) started a phone-in interview on live TV with WUSA. McCarthy said he had called the president to urge him to "calm people down" and in reply the president had sent out a tweet.^[120]
• 3:10 p.m.: Fairfax County, Virginia, deputy county executive Dave Rohrer informs county officials that county police are being dispatched to assist Capitol Police in response to a mutual aid request.^[75]
• 3:13 p.m.: President Trump tweets,

  "I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful. No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!"^[82]

• 3:15 p.m.:
  • House Speaker Pelosi calls the Governor of Virginia. The Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, confirms to House Speaker Pelosi that all assets of the State of Virginia including the National Guard are being sent to aid the U.S. Capitol.^[114]
  • First assets from Virginia begin rolling into D.C.^[114]
• 3:19 p.m.: Army Secretary McCarthy has a phone call with Senator Schumer and House Speaker Pelosi about Mayor Bowser's request. McCarthy explains that a full DCNG mobilization has been approved.^[89]
• 3:22 p.m.: Rohrer informs Fairfax County officials that the county is suspending fire, rescue, or emergency transportation to D.C. hospitals and "upgrading response and command structure."^[75]
• 3:26 p.m.: McCarthy has a phone call with Mayor Bowser and Metro Police Chief Contee conveying that their request was not denied and that Secretary Miller has approved full activation of the DCNG.^[89]
• 3:32 p.m.: Virginia Governor Ralph Northam orders mobilization of Virginia National Guard forces in anticipation of a request for support according to Secretary of Defense timeline. Note inconsistency with statements of Virginia Governor. Statements of Virginia Governor indicate: 1) he authorized all forces under his command to help capitol before DoD, and 2) DoD only followed after dissemination of his mobilization.^[89][114]
• 3:36 p.m.: White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweets that National Guard and other Federal forces are headed to the Capitol.^[82]
• 3:37 p.m.: Maryland Governor Larry Hogan orders mobilization of Maryland National Guard forces in anticipation of a request for support.^[89]
• 3:39 p.m.: Arlington County, Virginia, acting police chief Andy Penn informs county officials that Arlington officers are responding to the attack and have been absorbed into the Capitol Police response.^[75]
• 3:39 p.m.: Senator Schumer implores Pentagon officials, “Tell POTUS to tweet everyone should leave.” House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D–MD, wondered about calling up active duty military.^[110]
• 3:46 p.m.: Chief of the National Guard Bureau Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson has a phone call with Virginia Adjutant General Timothy P. Williams to discuss support to Washington, D.C. and is informed that Virginia National Guard forces have already been mobilized.^[89]
• 3:48 p.m.: Army Secretary McCarthy leaves the Pentagon for Metro Police Department Headquarters in the Henry Daly Building.^[89]
• 3:55 p.m.: Gen. Hokanson has a phone call with Maryland Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Timothy E. Gowen to discuss support to Washington, D.C. and is informed that Maryland National Guard forces have already been mobilized.^[89]
• 4:05 p.m.: President-elect Biden holds a press conference calling on President Trump to "demand an end to this siege".^[82]
• 4:08 p.m.: From a secure location, Vice President Pence phoned Christopher Miller, the acting defense secretary, to confirm the Capitol was not secure and ask military leaders for a deadline for securing the building while demanding that the Capitol be cleared.^[110]
• 4:10 p.m.: Army Secretary McCarthy arrives at D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters.^[89]
• 4:17 p.m.: Trump uploads a video to his Twitter denouncing the riots, but maintaining the false claims that the election was stolen.^[82] This was one of three takes, with the "most palatable option" chosen by White House aides for distribution.^[121] In the video he says:^[122]

  "I know your pain, I know you're hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election and everyone knows it, especially the other side. But you have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order. We don't want anybody hurt. It's a very tough period of time. There's never been a time like this where such a thing happened where they could take it away from all of us — from me, from you, from our country. This was a fraudulent election, but we can't play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You're very special. You've seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel, but go home, and go home in peace.”

• 4:18 p.m.: Secretary Miller, Gen. Milley, Army Secretary McCarthy, and Gen. Hokanson discuss availability of National Guard forces located outside of the immediate D.C. Metro area. Secretary Miller verbally authorizes mustering and deployment of out-of-State National Guard forces to D.C.^[89]

 

Tear gas on the west Capitol steps at 4:20 p.m.

• 4:26 p.m.: Rosanne Boyland, as shown in bodycam video, .^[123][124]collapses and is taken to the hospital where she is later pronounced dead of an amphetamine overdose.^[125]
• 4:32 p.m.: Secretary Miller authorizes DCNG to actually deploy in support of the U.S. Capitol Police.^[89][119]
• 4:40 p.m.: Army Secretary McCarthy has a phone call with Maryland Governor Hogan in which the Governor agrees to send Maryland NG forces to D.C., expected the next day.^[89]
• 5:08 p.m.: Army senior leaders relay to Major General Walker the Secretary of Defense's permission to deploy the DCNG to the Capitol.^[73]
• 5:20 p.m.: The first contingent of 155 Guard members, dressed in riot gear, began arriving at the Capitol.^[110]
• 5:40 p.m.: 154 DCNG soldiers arrive at the Capitol Complex, swear in with the Capitol Police, and begin support operations, having departed the D.C. Armory at 5:02pm.^[89]
• Around 5:40 p.m.: As the interior of the Capitol is cleared of rioters, leaders of Congress state that they will continue tallying electoral votes.^[82]
• 5:45 p.m.: Secretary Miller signs formal authorization for out-of-State National Guard to muster and deploy in support of U.S. Capitol Police.^[89]

 

A police line push rioters away from the western side of the Capitol at 5:46 p.m

• Around 5:45 p.m.: Police announce that Ashli Babbitt, the rioter shot inside the Capitol, has died.^[82]
• 6:00 p.m.: D.C. curfew comes into effect.^[82]
• 6:01 p.m.: President Trump tweets,

  "These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!"^[82]

• 6:09 p.m.: Rosanne Boyland is pronounced dead at a local hospital from an amphetamine overdose after collapsing near a tunnel entrance on the west side of the Capitol.^[126]
• 6:14 p.m.: U.S. Capitol Police, D.C. Metropolitan Police, and DCNG successfully establish a perimeter on the west side of the U.S. Capitol.^[89]