If you were president, wouldn`t you just jump into action? Wouldn`t you call everyone in your administration, your Cabinet who could, you know, come in and help quell this and monitor the situation carefully? He really sat in relative…
Elaine Luria
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Elaine Luria is a U.S. Representative for Virginia's 2nd congressional district, serving since January 3, 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Luria has focused on issues such as military and veterans' affairs, healthcare, and environmental protection. Before her political career, she served as a naval officer, achieving the rank of commander in the United States Navy. Luria's military background informs her legislative priorities, particularly in supporting the military community in her district.
Throughout our hearings, we've provided many facts and painted a vivid picture of the events of January 6th.
Rather than uphold his duty to the Constitution, President Trump allowed the mob to achieve the delay that he hoped would keep him in power.
As you've heard, by 2 o'clock, multiple staff members in the White House recognized that a serious situation was under way at the Capitol.
President Trump has never publicly acknowledged his responsibility for the attack.
As we heard at the start of the hearing, in the immediate aftermath of January 6th, Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy understood that President Trump bore responsibility for that day and should have taken immediate action to stop the…
The staff who remained at the White House on the morning of January 7th knew the President needed to address the Nation again and they had a speech prepared for him that morning, but he refused for hours to give it.
During his speech, he implored them to march to the Capitol, as he had always planned to do.
As you have seen in our prior hearings, President Trump summoned the mob to D.C. on January 6th.
Every President swears or affirms to faithfully execute the office of the President of the United States and, to the best of their ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Before he went on stage, he knew some of them were armed and prepared for combat.
Our hearings have shown the many ways in which President Trump tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power in the days leading up to January 6th.
As the next video shows, the rioters' anger was focused primarily on Vice President Mike Pence.
He didn`t act. He had a duty to act. So, we will address that in a lot of detail.
The committee is going to go where we need to go to find the evidence in order to perform our duty as a congressional committee.
I think we have a duty to make sure that if we have information about crimes we believe to be committed, that we pass that on to the appropriate people.
It’s critical that we have all of the government records, including these types of records that document the events of that day.
If we're going to talk about dereliction of duty, what were his duties as the president of the United States to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed?
We`ve seen you know what the plot was we`ve seen elements of the plot for the fake electors. We`ve seen the part to influence the Department of Justice, the pressure and Vice President Pence. But now we`re chapter of this story, the…
The crimes already been committed. If there’s a question of whether he showed up for a lawful subpoena, he didn’t. We need to hear from him as the Committee. He has valuable information related to the events leading up to January 6, on…
His obligation is to show up. We ask the questions, and he can give a response to the questions. He can plead the fifth. But his obligation under the subpoena is to be here, show up, sit down in the chair, and we’re going to ask you the…





