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exactly we know between these hours, this a hundred and 87 minutes, as members of this panel have dubbed it, that then president trump was largely out of sight. He was not photographed. And there's gaps in logs and terms of exactly who he called, which senators did he get in touch with. And so yes, it wasn't until he sent out a tweat around four 17 p m. That we heard from him again in terms of addressing this crowd. And

four 17, it's notable that that was after federal law enforcement had begun arriving at the capital after, you know, after back up was on the way a and that is when trump tweated this video, finally telling the rioters to go home, but also expressing love for them. We have to have peace,

so go home. We love you. You're very special. People

in the white house had been begging him to do something, begging

him to do something. But eric hirschman, another whitehouse official at the time, basically said, getting trump to do much of anything that day was emotionally draining for the white house staff, and they could hardly get him to do anything. They themselves were drained, while members of congress and the vice president were still in danger in the capital. Trump didn't call the pentagon. Trump didn't call the justice department. He didn't call the fbi. Instead, it seemed, he had conversations with rudy juliani and various senators, right

at one point we heard g o p leader keven mc carthy called in to son in law, jerrid cushner. He was scared, is the way jerrid cushner described him. Desperate for help as they were under attack. Yes,

there was begging and pleading from all corners, from fox news personalities, from his own children. I mean, that the list is basically everyone inundated. Yes. So once that tweet was finally sent, people did start going home, including former cabinet company worker stephen ayrs, who testified that he went to the capital because trump told him to go, and left when trump put out that video saying to go home. As

soon as that come out, everybody started talking about it. And ats it seemed lik it started to disperse. Younow, some of the crowd, obviously, you know, once we got back to the hotel room, we seen that it was still going on, but it deftly dispersed a lot of the crowd. And did you leave it that plint? We did. Y we left. But

trump wasn't done. He later tweeted, quote, these are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously and viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly and unfairly treated for so long. Go home inh love and in peace. Remember this day forever. Exclamation point. Whatever trump and his supporters thought marching on the capital would accomplish, it failed. The electoral college ballots had been protected. Democracy had survived barely. And in the early morning hours of january seventh, congress finished its work.

The whole number of electors appointed to vote for president of the united states is 538. Within that whole number, a majority is 270. The votes for president of the united states are as follows. Joseph r byten junior of the state of delaware has received 306 votes. Donald j trump, of the state of florida has received 232 votes. The announcement of the state of the vote by the president of the senate shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected president and vice president of the united states. All

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Listen to the invisibility of potcass on n pr. And we're back. Let's talk more about what we've learned from the house select committee investigating the january sixth insurrection. From election day forward, there was a mad scramble by former president trump and an ever shrinking circle of advisers and lawyers to overturn the results of a free and air election that he lost in p r congressional correspondent claudia grezales, is still with us, as is n p ars cary johnson, who covers the justice department. And let's bring in npr national political correspondent marelison, hey mara, hi there. So i want to step back for just a second. Over the past two months, there have been eight hearings, hours of testimony from the house select committee on january sixth. But this has been unlike any congressional hearing i think any of us have covered before.