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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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.

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

This man, he broke the law.

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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…

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.

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?

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…

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…

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

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…

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