The Republican governor of Arkansas said Donald Trump was ‘politically and morally responsible’ for last year’s January 6 Capitol riot during a Sunday television interview.

Asa Hutchinson’s most direct condemnation of the former president over the riot yet comes just a few days after the House select committee investigating the attack held its first in a series of six hearings presenting its findings.

The Democrat-led panel made clear on Thursday night that its hearings would outline how the insurrection was part of Trump and his allies’ wider plan to undermine democracy and steal the 2020 presidential election.

Committee member Rep. Elaine Luria said the hearings would focus on what Trump was ‘not doing, especially’ when asked by NBC Meet the Press host Chuck Todd.

Luria said ‘it’d be more clear to describe it as what he was not doing’ in the 187-minute window it took for the ex-president ask his supporters storming the Capitol to go home.

‘You know, it’s been reported previously that the phone logs at the White House on that day. They’re missing information,’ Luria said. ‘And then 187 minutes, you know, this man had the microphone; he could speak to the whole country.’

‘His duty was to stand up and say something and try to stop this. So, we’ll talk about that and what I see to be his dereliction of duty, and he had a duty to act.’