Biden calls testimony from Jan. 6 committee hearing 'devastating'

President Joe Biden said Saturday that helium recovered grounds presented during the House Jan. 6 committee's hearing last week to beryllium "devastating" and that the sheet has made an "overwhelming" case.

Asked by reporters astir his thoughts connected the committee's ninth proceeding during a halt astatine a Baskin-Robbins successful Portland, Oregon, Biden said, "I deliberation the grounds successful the video are really devastating."

"And I've been going retired of my mode not to remark and spot what happens. But it's — I deliberation it's been devastating," helium said. "I mean, the lawsuit has been made, it seems to me, reasonably overwhelming." 

He added, "But immoderate much I accidental astir it, you — justified — are going to inquire maine if I'm trying to power the Attorney General. I'm not. I've not spoken with him astatine all."

The committee's hearing Thursday — the past earlier the midterm elections — delve into erstwhile President Donald Trump's mindset arsenic the unit astatine the Capitol unfolded connected Jan. 6, 2021.

The proceeding featured never-before-seen footage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and different legislature leaders calling for assistance during the riot arsenic Trump refused to telephone disconnected the mob of his supporters.

Former Trump White House aides testified that Trump privately knew helium had mislaid the 2020 election, contempt espousing mendacious claims of wide predetermination fraud.

The proceeding concluded with the committee voting unanimously to subpoena the erstwhile president for documents and testimony.

Biden previously weighed in on the value of the Jan. 6 congressional hearings successful June, saying that Americans should cognize what unfolded and that "the aforesaid forces that led to Jan. 6 stay astatine enactment today."

"The insurrection connected Jan. 6 was 1 of the darkest chapters successful our nation's past — a brutal battle connected our democracy, a brutal onslaught connected instrumentality enforcement, immoderate losing their lives, and we heard astir it past nighttime again," Biden said successful June, astatine the apical of remarks focused connected ostentation astatine the Port of Los Angeles.

Although helium said helium was incapable to ticker the committee's archetypal nationalist hearing in June, the president stressed that it is important that the nationalist understands "what genuinely happened."

"We person to support our democracy," helium said, adding that "the psyche of America has been acold from won."