Elaine Luria

Our Committee's overriding objective is to fight fiction with facts, to create a full account for the American people and for the historical record, to tell the truth of what happened and why it happened, to make recommendations so it…

Members of the angry mob had been lied to by a President and the other powerful people who tried to convince them without evidence that the election had been stolen from them.

My patriotism is rooted in my gratitude for America's grace and generosity. I love this country.

There was a deliberate plan and it was many levers of government today.

I think Adam Kinzinger said this explicitly during the hearing, if you don't request a pardon, if you don't think you've committed a crime.

I mean, I think that, you know, the key focus of the Committee with this hearing being the levers that he tried to pull at the Department of Justice, and just to what extent he went in order to try to influence people and replace Jeff…

This man, he broke the law.

This man, he broke the law, he tried to undermine it, and he was the one person responsible for upholding the laws for the entire country.

He has a responsibility under the Constitution, the take care clause, to make sure that the laws are faithfully executed. And we have shown through our current testimony and evidence and will continue to show that he didn`t do that.

Well, today, what we wanted to show was that President Trump knew he lost the election. He was told this by his former attorney general, by his Department of Homeland Security, by his campaign manager, by his children, by everyone…

His duty was to stand up and say something and try to stop this. So we'll talk about that and what I see to be his dereliction of duty.

This is the kind of thing that will define the history of our country and our democracy moving forward. And if we can't preserve that I don't know what the country will look like for my daughter.

Trump knew he lost, then he pursued the Big Lie.

I thought that this effort was so important that, you know, if it means in November I don't get reelected I can sleep with that.

This seven-part plan we're going to lay out was every lever of government.

I'm doing the right thing. I served in uniform for 20 years. I take the oath seriously that I took the first time when I was 17 and started at the Naval Academy and throughout my entire career and again in Congress.

What if he had actually been successful at pulling the right lever in order to get the result that he wanted and he saw it through this coordinated plan and essentially attack that culminated with the riot on January 6?

We know that he attempted to or he actually did apply an extreme amount of pressure on the former vice president and attempting him to change the outcome of the results, as Liz Cheney mentioned in one of our hearings.

The president -- the former president knew that he lost, and if that`s the going on assumption for all of his further actions, I think that that just is an underlayment for the fact that -- you know, all of these things that he carried out…

This will be an opportunity for the committee to lay out the work that we`ve been doing for a year, essentially, collecting information about all the events leading up to January 6th that have occurred that day, and really paint a coherent…

Well, you know, this is a large investigation, we`re continuing to collect evidence, to do interviews, and we`ll be kicking off the hearings on June 9th, but we will continue to collect evidence to talk to people who have information…

The work of this committee is truly to provide all of the things that led up to January 6, the full accounting of that, the events of that day, and provide legislative recommendations to prevent something like this from happening in the…

What we hope to tell through our series of hearings, which will start this Thursday, is just how deep that was and how dangerous it was. Dangerous it remains to the future of our country and our democratic institutions.

I truly think that no one wants to see something like that happen again.

I think it`s very important that the American people hear directly from people who have firsthand knowledge of the events.