While speaking in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, President Joe Biden shared his thoughts on the most recent hearing from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
In the committee's hearing, never before seen footage was shown of different members of congress fleeing to safety. At the same time, supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed through the Capitol building.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) were among those shown as they called different governors, asking them to mobilize their national guards to the Capitol.
The committee also showed new deposition clips from several witnesses, including General Mark Milley.
While Biden was at a Baskin-Robbins in Portland, reporters asked him what he thought of the never before seen footage, according to NBC News. The president said, "I think the testimony in the video are actually devastating."
"And I've been going out of my way not to comment and see what happens. But it's— I think it's been devastating," Biden said. "I mean, the case has been made, it seems to me, fairly overwhelming."
Biden added that he is not trying to "influence the Attorney General," so he has avoided speaking about the hearing.
At the conclusion of the committee's final hearing before the midterm elections, vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) motioned to subpoena former President Trump. The motion was approved by the committee unanimously.
"He is required to answer for his actions," Committee chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) Thompson said.
The panel's purpose for Thursday's hearing was to show what was going on while Trump refused to call off the mob of his supporters. Depositions shown included former White House aides and close allies of the former president.
Biden has stated the importance of the congressional hearings, saying in June that Americans should know what happened on Jan. 6.
"The insurrection on Jan. 6 was one of the darkest chapters in our nation's history — a brutal assault on our democracy, a brutal attack on law enforcement, some losing their lives, and we heard about it last night again," Biden said in June.
