Jan. 6 committee has outtakes of Trump's message to supporters day after riot
By Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer and Jamie Gangel, CNNUpdated: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 01:05:52 GMTSource: CNNThe House select committee investigating the insurrection has in its possession video
By Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer and Jamie Gangel, CNNUpdated: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 01:05:52 GMT
Source: CNN
The House select committee investigating the insurrection has in its possession video outtakes of then-President Donald Trump's message to his supporters on January 7, 2021, the day after the riot at the US Capitol.
The outtakes, first reported by The Washington Post, were part of production of a speech Trump gave the night after the riot.
The panel is expected to show clips of the outtakes during its prime-time hearing Thursday, according to sources familiar with the committee's plans. The outtakes show Trump having a difficult time working through the effort to tape the message. Trump refused to say the election results had been settled and attempted to call the rioters patriots. He also went to great lengths to not accuse them of any wrongdoing.
A spokesman for the January 6 select committee declined to comment on the outtakes.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat who is a member of the committee, confirmed Wednesday night to CNN's Anderson Cooper that the panel has the outtakes and plans to share some of them during the hearing.
"The President displayed extreme difficulty in completing his remarks," Raskin said on "Anderson Cooper 360."
"It's extremely revealing how exactly he went about making those statements, and we're going to let everybody see parts of that," he added.
The video tape outtakes will be one part of a larger presentation during which the committee plans to detail Trump's lack of attention to the ongoing riot. The committee has said it will focus on the 187 minutes that Trump sat back, refusing to act, as the Capitol was under siege. Some committee members have described this as Trump's "dereliction of duty."
