"Our democracy is at stake… the points that we will recommend when adopted will guarantee that those insurrectionists will never, ever do it again."
-Chair @BennieGThompson
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January 6 was the violent culmination of an extensive effort to overturn a presidential election.
The American people know a lot about those events, but soon they will learn more, and see how close we came to losing our democracy.
On Thursday, we will begin to tell that story.
This week, @January6thCmte starts sharing evidence of the chilling inside plan to overturn the 2020 election and block the constitutional transfer of power. America will see footage and records we have documenting the dangerous extremist assault on our constitutional order.
WATCH: Attorney General Barr declares that Donald Trump lost the Presidential election in 2020.
There is no doubt that the American people voted Trump out of office and the Select Committee has found no evidence of election fraud.
"Vice President Pence demonstrated his loyalty to Donald Trump consistently over four years, but he knew that he had a higher duty – to the United States Constitution." - Vice Chair @RepLizCheney
Testimony from Vice President’s Chief of Staff:
In 1864, Lincoln understood that he would likely lose his reelection bid. In anticipation, he wrote a memo detailing the importance of one of our most basic democratic principles: the peaceful transfer of power.
This precedent stood for 220 years— until Donald Trump.
"It was carnage. It was chaos. ... Never in my wildest dreams did I think that as a police officer, as a law enforcement officer, I would find myself in the middle of a battle."
U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards describes "absolute war zone" outside of the Capitol.
President Zelensky’s address to the Russian people “was a speech for the ages, one that deserves to be read now and long after this crisis is over. For it did not just plead his people’s case, though it did that: ‘Lots of you have relatives in Ukraine… 1/2