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The Jan. 6 investigating committee reconvened on Thursday night, aiming to show a “minute by minute” accounting of former president Donald Trump’s actions that day and how rather than stop the violence, he watched it all unfold on television at the White House.

The panel aired a previously unseen video outtake of Trump saying, “I don’t want to say the election is over” the day after the riot at the U.S. Capitol.

With the Capitol siege raging, Trump poured “gasoline on the fire” by tweeting condemnation of Mike Pence‘s refusal to go along with his plan to stop the certification of Joe Biden‘s victory, former aides told the committee.

Trump had dispatched the crowd to Capitol Hill in heated rally remarks at the Ellipse behind the White House, and “within 15 minutes of leaving the stage, President Trump knew that the Capitol was besieged and under attack,” said committee member Elaine Luria, D-Va.

Trump then spent hours in the White House dining room watching Fox News, where he placed no calls to the attorney general, the homeland security secretary or officials at the National Guard, according to a clip from a deposition given by White House Counsel Pat Cipollone.

Among the witnesses testifying Thursday in a recorded video was retired District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. Mark Robinson who told the committee that Trump was well aware of the number of weapons in the crowd of his supporters but wanted to go regardless.

“President Trump did not fail to act during the 187 minutes between leaving the Ellipse and telling the mob to go home,” committee member Adam Kinzinger, (R-IL) told the hearing. “He chose not to act.”

Likely the last hearing of the summer, the panel said they will resume in September as more witnesses and information emerges. “Our investigation goes forward,” said Thompson testifying remotely as he isolates after testing positive for COVID-19. “There needs to be accountability.”

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