It warned an OTR - "off the record" movement - "anywhere near there is not advisable," according to emails displayed by the committee. Nine priority breach attempts at this time." email from Secret Service leadership, Bobby Engel, the lead agent from Trump's detail, was told the Capitol Police were "having serious challenges securing. The Secret Service was "concerned" about Trump's plan to go to the Capitol after his speech at the Ellipse and noted the facility was already becoming dangerous, emails newly obtained by the committee show. “The president told them something along the lines of, 'Kevin, maybe these people are just more angry about this than you are. Maybe they’re more upset,'” Mulvaney said in an interview. Raskin said another witness, Mick Mulvaney, former Trump chief of staff, has since corroborated Herrera Beutler’s “shocking account.” But Trump insisted that the mob that stormed the Capitol “aren’t my people” and that Trump was basically saying he was “OK with this,” Herrera Beutler recalled McCarthy telling her.Īccording to Herrera Beutler's testimony, as McCarthy told Trump his staff were "running for their lives," the president responded, "I guess they’re just more upset about the election, you know, theft, than you are." Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., recalled McCarthy telling her that he attempted to get the then-president to call off his mob of supporters. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., noted the committee previously aired a description of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's phone conversation with Trump as the Capitol attack unfolded. The subpoena comes more than a year since the committee began investigating the Capitol attack. The committee expects to issue the subpoena in the coming days and it will have details on the compliance dates, a source familiar told NBC News. Sources familiar with the committee’s plans told NBC News that members want to put the historic move in the public record, despite multiple members previously acknowledging the slim chances of Trump complying with the subpoena. NBC News was first to report that the vote would take place. The subpoena will expire at the end of this congressional term.
"We also recognize that a subpoena to a former president is a serious and extraordinary action," Thompson continued. There is also precedent for presidents to provide testimony and documentary evidence to congressional investigators." "There is precedent in American history for Congress to compel the testimony of a president. "It is our obligation to seek Donald Trump’s testimony," Thompson said ahead of the vote. The committee voted on Thursday unanimously to subpoena Trump. The video montage included other clips of congressional leaders huddling later on in the day and speaking to Vice President Pence about reconvening that night. Attorney General, in your law enforcement responsibility - a public statement they should all leave," Schumer said. "Why don’t you get the president to tell them to leave the Capitol, Mr. "The fact is that 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 United State," Pelosi said to Rosen. She and Schumer expressed their concerns about the personal safety of people in the Capitol, including members of Congress. Sitting next to Schumer on a couch while acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen was on speakerphone, Pelosi said, "They’re breaking windows, going in and obviously ransacking our offices and all the rest of that. “It’s just horrendous and all at the instigation of the president of the United States,” Pelosi told him. Ralph Northam asking for his help in deploying his state's National Guard troops to the Capitol. In one clip, when Pelosi was in a room with then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Schumer is heard saying, "I'm gonna call up the 'effin secretary of DOD," referring to the Department of Defense.
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