The Latest on the hearing Thursday by the House committee investigating the Capitol riot (all times local): 8:45 pm.
What was Donald Trump doing in the White House as a mob of rioters breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021?
According to a member of the House committee investigating the insurrection, Trump stayed in the dining room at the White House, facing a television that was tuned to Fox News, for more than 2 1/2 hours.
Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria of Virginia says there is no official record of Trump placing or receiving a call for that entire afternoon, and there are no photos of him until after he surfaced in the Rose Garden after 4 p.M.
Luria says that despite the lack of an official record, the committee has learned what Trump did that day.
The committee played snippets of a recorded interview it conducted with a former White House national security staffer.
That staffer, whose voice was obscured to conceal his identity, said White House officials were “in a state of shock” over what was happening at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Luria says Trump “did not call to issue orders. He did not call to offer assistance.”