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134/ Trump's next two tweets to the rioters had the verbs "stay" and "remain" as their operative verbs. There was no request anyone leave the Capitol, only to not be violent (remember, PROOF has shown that the Stop the Steal plan was an *occupation*, not specifically violence). — PolitiTweet.org

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133/ The House January 6 Committee hearing has been gaveled back in. We are now at 2:24PM in the January 6 timeline; Trump has been sitting in his dining room doing nothing to protect the Capitol for over an hour, and a riot had been declared at the Capitol 35 minutes earlier. — PolitiTweet.org

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132/ We believe that in the second half of today's hearing we'll see outtakes from Trump's *eventual* video message to the rioters—after the 187 minutes of dereliction of duty—in which he struggled to agree to say *anything* that would actually help the situation at the Capitol. — PolitiTweet.org

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131/ I also think (iii) the audio of the VP's Secret Service detail is truly chilling—and it brings home how deeply scared those in the Capitol, no matter how trained, really were. Watching Josh Hawley hauling a** on January 6 underscores how prevalent *fear* was in the Capitol. — PolitiTweet.org

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130/ For those just coming to the HJ6C hearings, this hearing will be *shocking*. For the far smaller group who've been following along for a while, it is less so. But two big takeaways are (i) more hearings in September, (ii) new details about what the White House knew and when. — PolitiTweet.org

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129/ While the Secret Service calls discussed in this hearing are not what the Secret Service destroyed—it destroyed texts—what we have just heard underscores that if *this* is what we are getting from Secret Service calls, imagine what the deleted texts say? Almost unimaginable. — PolitiTweet.org

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128/ Something I forgot to capture above: apparently Mike Pence's security detail was not only afraid for their own lives, but they were using their phones to *call their families* because they believed they might not get out of the Capitol alive. Absolutely stunning testimony. — PolitiTweet.org

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127/ The Committee is now in a ten-minute recess. — PolitiTweet.org

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126/ Now video of Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) *running* from a mob that he had encouraged just an hour earlier. Now video of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner confirming all of Trump's duties under the Constitution, one by one (none of which Trump upheld on January 6). — PolitiTweet.org

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125/ I'm eliding duplicative evidence here as best I can, as it was already covered in prior live-tweets/hearings (e.g. Cassidy Hutchinson's reaction of disgust at Trump's Pence tweet). Instead of doing anything at this time, Trump called Sen. Tuberville to lobby him for a delay. — PolitiTweet.org

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124/ Rep. Luria notes that the attack on the Capitol escalated "right after the tweet." It occurs to me that some of this material/evidence is deliberately redundant, as the Committee knows some people are watching an HJ6C hearing for the first time (as this is in prime time). — PolitiTweet.org

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123/ Both Matthews and Pottinger compare Trump's mid-riot tweet about Pence to "pouring gasoline on a fire" (their words). — PolitiTweet.org

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122/ Matthews says she read that Trump tweet about Pence as a "green light" for the Capitol attackers. — PolitiTweet.org

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121/ Pottinger says he resigned his federal office because of that Trump tweet about Pence. — PolitiTweet.org

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120/ A ton of testimony now about how angry the mob was—and how some of these angry rioters appeared on Fox News, so Trump would have been seeing that anger on the Dining Room TV. What did Trump do? Tweet that "Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done." — PolitiTweet.org

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119/ The White House security official says there was screaming and clear fear from the security team guarding the Vice President and they feared they were shortly going to have to use lethal force "or worse" (not clear what that would be, maybe he meant "or worse would happen"). — PolitiTweet.org

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118/ WHITE HOUSE SECURITY OFFICIAL (voice and identity hidden): "Members of the VP's security detail were starting to fear for their own lives....they thought this was about to get very ugly." He documented this in the White House national-security log. Wow. Chilling testimony. — PolitiTweet.org

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117/ We are hearing radio traffic from the VP's security detail about evacuating him from where he was in the Capitol when the rioters broke into the building. They sound extremely, extremely worried—even *scared* about what will happen if they do not evacuate Pence immediately. — PolitiTweet.org

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116/ Instead of doing anything, Trump called Giuliani *again*. This call was twice as long: 8 minutes. A Proud Boy was smashing a Capitol window at the time (the police line had long since been breached, this was merely the final step before the rioters' entrance to the Capitol). — PolitiTweet.org

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115/ Matthews and Judd Deere—another Trump aide—both went to Kayleigh McEnany to tell her that Trump needed to say something immediately. It is amazing to see the testimony of these aides and how blindingly obvious it was to them that Trump needed to do something and immediately. — PolitiTweet.org

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114/ Matthews is saying it would've taken only "minutes" to get the press corps to the Oval for a presser, if Trump had wanted to do that instead. Kinzinger quotes a Trump adviser as saying they were worried about what Trump might say unscripted—as they knew his mind at the time. — PolitiTweet.org

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113/ Matthews is saying that it would have taken Donald Trump fewer than 60 seconds to get from the Dining Room to the Briefing Room if he had wanted to issue a statement. Matthews says there is a camera there that is *on at all times*. So Trump could have spoken *immediately*. — PolitiTweet.org

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112/ The "they" in that last tweet—that Trump is referring to—is the armed mob at the Capitol. — PolitiTweet.org

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111/ Now Hutchinson in depo is saying Meadows and Cipollone were with her—and maybe Eric Hershmann—when Pat Cipollone tried to convince Meadows to get Trump to save Pence. MEADOWS: "You heard him, Pat. He thinks Mike deserves it. He doesn't think they're doing anything wrong." — PolitiTweet.org