Jan. 6 panel shows congressional leaders asking for help from Gov. Hogan, others
WASHINGTON (CBS/AP) — The Jan. 6 panel is showing previously unseen footage of congressional leaders phoning officials for help during the Capitol siege.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer can be seen talking to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and then Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam.
Gov. Hogan ultimately sent 500 members of the Maryland National Guard and 200 state troopers to D.C that day. Baltimore County and Baltimore City officers also assisted.
I never thought I'd see a day like this in America. I am not going to stand for this, and neither should any American.
— Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) January 6, 2021
In addition to sending in 200 @MDSP troopers, after speaking to the Secretary of the Army, I am mobilizing 500 @MDNG members to help restore law and order. pic.twitter.com/Dk72JflkXy
Later the footage shows Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and other GOP leaders as the group asks the acting attorney general for help.
"They're breaking the law in many different ways — quite frankly at the instigation of the president of the United States," Pelosi is heard saying at one point.
The U.S. House Jan. 6 Committee planned to vote Thursday to subpoena former President Donald Trump to testify, as it presented interviews with his aides and new documents detailing his unflagging multi-part efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.
The vote seeking Trump's testimony comes as panel is producing vivid new details and evidence of Trump's state of mind as he refused to concede his election loss to Joe Biden, resulting in the 2021 attack at the Capitol.
In never-before-seen Secret Service messages, the panel produced evidence of the way extremist groups provided the muscle in the fight for Trump's presidency, planning weeks before the attack to send a violent force to Washington.
"Their plan is literally to kill people," read a tip that was sent to Secret Service more than a week before the violence on Jan. 6.
The Secret Service warned in a Dec. 26, 2020, email of a tip that members of the right-wing Proud Boys planned to march in Washington on Jan. 6 with a group large enough to outnumber the police.
"It felt like the calm before the storm," one Secret Service agent wrote in a group chat.
The Jan. 6 committee has been meeting for more than a year, set up by the House after Republican senators blocked the formation of an outside panel similar to the 9/11 commission set up after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Even after the launch of its high-profile public hearings last summer, the Jan. 6 committee continued to gather evidence and interviews.
At least five people died in the Jan. 6 attack and its aftermath, including a Trump supporter shot and killed by Capitol Police.
Trump faces various state and federal investigations over his actions in the election and its aftermath.