'I don't want to say the election is over': Trump says 'yesterday is a hard word for me,' SLAMS the podium and refuses to say he lost in outtakes of January 7 speech shared at committee hearing
- The January 6 House select committee shared outtakes of an address former President Donald Trump made to the nation on January 7
- 'I don't want to say the election is over,' Trump says in one of the clips. 'I just want to say Congress has certified the results without saying the election is over'
- The former commander-in-chief is shown getting tongue-tied, saying at one point, 'Yesterday is a hard word for me'
- The outtakes were part of new exhibits shared with the public by the Democrat-led House select committee on January 6
- The committee held its final hearing of the summer in primetime Thursday night
- The hearing was dedicated to the 187 minutes between Trump's Ellipse speech and when the president finally called off the Capitol attack
- Witnesses told the committee that Trump spent the time in the White House dining room, watching the assault play out on Fox News while calling senators
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January 6 House select committee shared outtakes of an address former President
Donald Trump made to the nation on January 7, still unable to publicly say he lost the election.
'I don't want to say the election is over,' Trump says in one of the clips. 'I just want to say Congress has certified the results without saying the election is over.'
The former commander-in-chief is shown getting tongue-tied.
'Yesterday is a hard word for me,' he says at one point, with daughter
Ivanka Trump heard outside the frame recommending he remove it.
He also struggles to read the teleprompter.
'I can't see it very well,' he complains.
He straightens his suit jacket and eventually makes his three-minute address.
'My only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote,' he tells the camera.
The outtakes were part of new exhibits shared with the public by the Democrat-led House select committee on January 6, which held its final hearing of the summer in primetime Thursday night.
The committee also showed an image of Trump standing in the Oval Office after the Ellipse rally on January 6 - before moving into the White House dining room where he would spend hours refusing to call off the attack.
Thursday night's primetime hearing was dedicated to the 187 minutes between Trump wrapping up his remarks on the Ellipse - where he goaded supporters to match on the Capitol - until his tepid video statement asking them to go home.
Committee members noted how there were no photos of Trump as he sat watching
Fox News Channel in the White House dining room for more than three hours, nor were there entries on an official call log of White House diary.
What witnesses did tell committee members was that White House officials, including
Ivanka Trump and Counsel Pat Cipollone, urged the president to make a statement to supporters to stop the attack.
Inside the Capitol, members of Vice President Mike Pence's security detail were so worried about the escalating violence that they were making 'personal call's to 'say goodbye' to their families because they 'feared for their lives,' according to an unnamed official whose identity the committee kept secret.
'The members of the VP detail at this time were starting to fear for their own lives,' the official said. 'There was a lot of yelling, a lot of very personal calls over the radio. It was disturbing, I don't like talking about it.'
'There were calls to say goodbye to family members, so on and so forth ... for whatever the reason was on the ground, the VP detail thought this was going to get very ugly,' the official continued.
The committee's witness, whose voice was masked, couldn't say for certain what the VP's detail was experiencing, but the tenor of their conversation indicated things were 'going to a whole other level soon.'
'The mob was accomplishing President Trump's purpose so of course he didn't intervene,' said committee member, Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger. 'President Trump did not fail to act during the 187 minutes between leaving the Ellipse and telling the mob to go home - he chose not to act.'
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