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Jarring new footage, evidence Trump knew he lost:
Key takeaways from the latest Jan. 6 hearing

Video footage of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other congressional leaders making calls for help on Jan. 6 was among the highlights of the Jan. 6 committee's final hearing before the election.

Oct. 13, 2022, 5:14 PM CDT
By Scott Wong and Sahil Kapur

WASHINGTON — While President Donald Trump was refusing to call off the mob of his supporters attacking the Capitol, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and other congressional leaders leaped into action to try to retake control of the sprawling complex.

They called the secretary of Defense and the acting attorney general and urged them to send help. They called the Democratic governors of neighboring Virginia and Maryland to send National Guard troops and other police. And they got on the phone with Vice President Mike Pence to figure out how they could return to the Capitol that same night and finish certifying Joe Biden’s election victory.

“Oh my gosh, they’re just breaking windows, they’re doing all kinds of … they said somebody was shot. It’s just horrendous, and all at the instigation of the president of the United States,” a distraught but composed Pelosi says on a call to Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam in a video clip played during the Jan. 6 committee's hearing on Thursday.

“I’m gonna call up the effin’ secretary of DOD,” Schumer says in another video clip.

The jarring footage was among the highlights of Thursday's hearing — the last for the Jan. 6 committee before the midterm elections — which featured a deep dive into Trump's mindset as the events unfolded and ended with the panel voting unanimously to subpoena the former president for documents and testimony.

Here are some of the key takeaways:

Congressional leaders scramble for safety
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Trump privately knew he had lost

Publicly, Trump insisted he was being robbed of an election he won. Privately, he was conceding that he had lost, people close to him told the committee.

After the Supreme Court turned down his election case, Trump was "livid," according to a U.S. Secret Service email obtained by the committee, an observation that was echoed in testimony by former Trump aides.

Alyssa Farah Griffin, then head of White House strategic communications, told the Jan. 6 panel she popped into the Oval Office "maybe a week after the election was called" to check on Trump.

"He was looking at the TV and he said, 'Can you believe I lost to this effing guy?'" Farah Griffin said.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-hearing-takeaways-jarring-new-footage-evidence-trump-knew-lost-rcna52176