A spokesman for the Jan. 6 select committee declined to comment on the explosions. Representative Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat who is on the committee, confirmed Wednesday night to CNN’s Anderson Cooper that the committee has the strengths and plans to share some of them during the hearing. “The President had extraordinary difficulty completing his remarks,” Raskin told “Anderson Cooper 360.” “It’s extremely revealing how exactly he made those statements and we’re going to let everyone see bits of it,” he added. Representative Adam Schiff, another committee member, told CNN’s Don Lemon later Wednesday that the outbursts “will be significant in terms of what the President was willing to say and what he was not willing to say.” The California Democrat said the campaigns will show “all those who are urging him to say something to do something to stop the violence. You’re going to hear the terrible lack of response from the President and you’re going to hear more about how he finally got around to saying something and what he was willing to say and what not.” The videotape releases will be one part of a larger presentation in which the committee plans to detail Trump’s lack of attention to the ongoing insurgency. The panel said it would focus on the 187 minutes Trump stayed behind, refusing to act, as the Capitol was under siege. Some committee members have described this as a “dereliction of duty” by Trump. This story has been updated with additional details on Wednesday. CNN’s Mary Kay Mallonee contributed to this report.
