January 6 committee hearing highlights: New evidence, Trump subpoena on Day 9

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., told The Washington Post in an interview that the committee's report on its investigation of the Capitol riot most likely won't land before the midterm elections.

“I can’t give it to you exactly because I don't think it exists yet,” Raskin said of the committee’s timeline for releasing the report. “I am hoping that we would have it done later in November or early in December.” 

In a post on his social media website Truth Social after the hearing concluded on Thursday, Trump lashed out at the committee and questioned why he had not been asked to testify "months ago."

Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich didn't directly mention the subpoena in a statement Thursday, but he did accuse Democrats of "Doubling and tripling down on their partisan theatrics."

"Pres Trump will not be [intimidated] by their meritless rhetoric or un-American actions," Budowich said. "Trump-endorsed candidates will sweep the Midterms, and America First leadership & solutions will be restored. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!."

The committee aired previously unseen footage showing congressional leaders pleading for help from nearby governors, the secretary of defense and the acting attorney general on Jan. 6 as the Capitol was under attack.

The video provided a chronological timeline of clips that showed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in various undisclosed locations that day on the phone asking for help.

In one clip, when Pelosi was in a room with then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Schumer is heard saying, "I'm gonna call up the 'effin secretary of DOD," referring to the Department of Defense.

In another, Pelosi called Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam asking for his help in deploying his state's National Guard troops to the Capitol. “It’s just horrendous and all at the instigation of the president of the United States,” Pelosi told him.

Sitting next to Schumer on a couch while acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen was on speakerphone, Pelosi said, "They’re breaking windows, going in and obviously ransacking our offices and all the rest of that. That’s nothing."

She and Schumer expressed their concerns about the personal safety of people in the Capitol, including members of Congress.

"The fact is that on any given day they’re breaking the law in many different ways and quite frankly much of it at the instigation of the president of the United State," Pelosi said to Rosen.

"Why don’t you get the president to tell them to leave the Capitol, Mr. Attorney General, in your law enforcement responsibility — a public statement they should all leave," Schumer said.

The video montage included other clips of congressional leaders huddling later on in the day and speaking to Vice President Pence about reconvening that night.

That's a wrap on Thursday's hearing.

The committee voted on Thursday unanimously to subpoena Trump.

"It is our obligation to seek Donald Trump’s testimony," Thompson said ahead of the vote. "There is precedent in American history for Congress to compel the testimony of a president. There is also precedent for presidents to provide testimony and documentary evidence to congressional investigators."

"We also recognize that a subpoena to a former president is a serious and extraordinary action," Thompson continued.

The subpoena will expire at the end of this congressional term. 

NBC News was first to report that the vote would take place. Sources familiar with the committee’s plans told NBC News that members want to put the historic move in the public record, despite multiple members previously acknowledging the slim chances of Trump complying with the subpoena.

The committee expects to issue the subpoena in the coming days and it will have details on the compliance dates, a source familiar told NBC News.

The subpoena comes more than a year since the committee began investigating the Capitol attack.

In his closing statement, Thompson thanked police officers who helped quell the mob of Trump supporters at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Thompson also paid tribute to the “tireless work” by members and investigators.

Thompson then condemned Trump for leading an effort to “upend American democracy that directly resulted in the violence of Jan. 6.”

“He tried to take away the voice of the American people in choosing their president and replace the will of the voters with his will to remain in power. He is the one person at the center of the story of what happened on Jan. 6,” Thompson said.

The video the committee showed of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others on Jan. 6 was shot by her daughter, Alexandra Pelosi, a source familiar with the matter told NBC.

The committee played a clip from an interview investigators conducted with Elaine Chao, who served as Trump's transportation secretary and resigned from her Cabinet position after Jan. 6.

"I think the events at the Capitol, however they occurred, were shocking, and it was something that, as I mentioned in my statement, that I could not put aside," she said in video played during the hearing.

Chao, who is married to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., continued, "And at a particular point, the events were such that it was impossible for me to continue, given my personal values and my philosophy. I came as an immigrant to this country. I believe in this country. I believe in the peaceful transfer of power. I believe in democracy. And so I was — it was a decision that I made on my own."

As the committee played video showing congressional leadership on the day of the riot, people in the back of room were watching with rapt attention. The room was absolutely silent as the video played.

Some people recorded the video with their phones. Some committee members, including Lofgren, appear shaken by the videos of leadership trying to figure out how to regain control of the Capitol. Lofgren put her head in her hand and covered her whole face with her hands