Jan. 6 Hearings

The House panel investigating the attack will lead off its public sessions with video testimony from people close to the former president, and footage ...

Last May, Mr. Rosen took part in a public hearing of the House Oversight and Reform Committee on events leading up to the assault on the Capitol. Mr. Quested accompanied the Proud Boys to pro-Trump rallies in Washington in November and December 2020 and was on the ground with members of the group on Jan. 6, when several played a crucial role in breaching the Capitol. Other officers around the building recall hearing Officer Edwards calling for help over the radio — one of the first signs that mob violence was beginning to overrun the police presence. Late in the day on Jan. 6, Mr. Quested and his crew were with Mr. Tarrio in Baltimore, filming him as he responded in real time to news about the riot. “It’s an important story, and one that must be told to ensure it never happens again.” The Jan. 6 committee is still in informal talks with Pat A. Cipollone, the former White House Counsel, as well as Byung J. Pak, the former U.S. attorney in Atlanta, who abruptly resigned on Jan. 4, 2021, after learning that Mr. Trump planned to fire him for not finding voter fraud, according to those people familiar with the discussions. The hearings are unfolding five months before midterm elections in which the Democrats’ majority is at stake, at a time when they are eager to draw a sharp contrast between themselves and the Republicans who enabled and embraced Mr. Trump, including the members of Congress who abetted his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Ms. Edwards, a well-respected Capitol Police officer, is believed to be the first officer injured in the attack, when she sustained a concussion during an assault at a barricade at the base of Capitol Hill. A man who has been charged with taking part in the assault, Ryan Samsel, told the F.B.I. during an interview more than a year ago that just before he approached the barricade, a high-ranking member of the Proud Boys, Joseph Biggs, had encouraged him to confront the police. Committee aides say the evidence will show that Mr. Trump was at the center of a “coordinated, multi-step effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election” that resulted in a mob of his supporters storming the halls of Congress and disrupting the official electoral count that is a pivotal step in the peaceful transfer of presidential power. Mr. Quested, a British documentarian who has worked in war zones such as Afghanistan, spent a good deal of the postelection period filming members of the Proud Boys, including the group’s former chairman, Enrique Tarrio, who has been charged with seditious conspiracy in connection with the Capitol riot. The 8 p.m. hearing is the first in a series of six planned for this month, during which the panel will lay out for Americans the full magnitude and significance of Mr. Trump’s systematic drive to invalidate the 2020 election and remain in power. WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol plans to open a landmark series of public hearings on Thursday by playing previously unreleased video of former President Donald J. Trump’s top aides and family members testifying before its staff, as well as footage revealing the role of the Proud Boys, a right-wing extremist group, in the assault.

The House panel probing the Capitol attack will present testimony from Trump administration officials and campaign and Trump family members.

It will begin at 8 p.m. ET Thursday and will be televised on most major television networks. Please see our republishing guidelines for use of photos and graphics. The hearing, the first in a series expected to span most of June, will reveal the panel’s “initial findings to the American public,” an aide said. “We will be revealing new details showing that … Jan. 6 was the result of a coordinated, multi-step effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election and stop the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden and that former President Donald Trump was at the center of that effort,” a committee aide said. In addition to live witnesses — a U.S. Capitol Police officer injured by rioters during the attack and a documentary filmmaker — who are expected to testify Thursday evening about the violence they witnessed that day, the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol will present taped testimony from high-ranking officials of the Trump administration and campaign and Trump family members, aides said. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The Jan. 6 committee is raising expectations, saying the hearing will be packed with new video and audio proving that Trump was at the heart of the attack.

Enlisting the help of a media professional demonstrates that the committee’s priority is a TV spectacle, not fact-finding, Republican critics said. Committee aides said each hearing will have a theme. Republicans have sought to undercut the committee by casting it as a partisan body targeting Trump so that he’s not a viable presidential candidate in 2024. The committee has disclosed that it interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses, obtained more than 140,000 documents and issued nearly 100 subpoenas. The committee took pains to conduct its investigation in secret, even setting up white noise machines outside its offices so that reporters wouldn’t overhear sworn depositions. But that also means the committee is on the hook to deliver.

The House select committee on the Capitol insurrection has a duty far beyond investigating one of the most traumatic days in US history.

McCarthy, for instance, needs Trump's help to become speaker if Republicans win the House in November. The proximity of the midterm vote also adds an extra political dimension, not least because Trump has tainted yet another election cycle with his claims of fraud in 2020 and is making adherence to his lies about a stolen election the price of entry for GOP candidates who want his endorsement. Around the country, Republican leaders have meanwhile sought to use Trump's lies as the foundation of efforts to suppress voting and to rein in options like mail-in balloting popular with Democratic voters. For the first time in American history, a democratically defeated president tried to thwart the will of voters and disrupted the peaceful transfer of power, a golden thread that separates the United States from totalitarian states around the world. In a CBS/YouGov poll in May, 89% of Democrats said it was at least somewhat important to find out what happened on January 6, 2021, while only 48% of Republicans believed so. in Trump's effort to undermine the election. A poll in April from the Washington Post and ABC News found that 40% of Americans believed the committee was conducting a fair and impartial investigation while 40% disagreed. The House passed a bipartisan bill setting up such a panel, but Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell effectively killed it off, in implicit recognition of Trump's strength among Republican voters. It would be one thing if the investigation was uncovering the plots and schemes and misdemeanors that took place during a tragedy that was in the past. Fox doesn't plan to preempt its regular opinion programming to carry Thursday's hearing live in its entirety, deferring to hosts who frequently distorted the events of January 6. The House committee set out to expose the truth about Trump's broad plot to tarnish the 2020 election with false claims of voter fraud. Its work so far suggests it plans to prove that the attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob Thursday's hearing will feature testimony of two people who interacted with the group in early 2021.

The House select committee investigating January 6 will use its first prime-time public hearing on Thursday to make the case that former President Donald ...

Committee aides also signaled that Thursday's hearing will include new video of the violent attack on the Capitol itself. That will give the committee more control over what happens on Thursday. There won't be interruptions, outbursts or grandstanding from opponents of the committee, like there were during the House's 2019 impeachment hearings. Some of that footage will be revealed during the first hearing but may also appear during later presentations. Trump and his Republican allies in Congress are preparing their own counter-programming to attack the committee's work as a political attack on Trump. Committee aides said they also plan to show video to remind the public what happened on January 6 when the Capitol was overrun by a violent mob. Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson and Vice Chair Liz Cheney will make opening statements and they will be the ones to question the witnesses Thursday, aides said.

More than a year after the attack on the Capitol, the House select committee on January 6 will hold its first hearing Thursday night at 8 p.m..

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The committee's first hearing on the Capitol attack will feature two witnesses: an injured Capitol police officer and a documentary filmmaker.

But our aim is to tie all that together in a comprehensive narrative and to show how it’s a pattern that started before the election and went all the way through January 6.” The committee’s investigation is still ongoing, a committee aide stressed to reporters, but hearings are also scheduled for Monday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week. The footage has provided crucial evidence to the committee’s investigation and the Justice Department’s criminal probe. The Washington Post has previously reported that the committee is likely to show excerpts of pretaped interviews with Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner. Edwards sustained a traumatic brain injury during the attack and is believed to be the first officer who was injured during the insurrection. The assault disrupted that work for hours.

At least one video teed up by the select committee will show an uptick in activity after Trump's "wild" tweet.

The Justice Department has described Proud Boys as playing a leadership role within the mob that day, leading Trump supporters to the foot of the Capitol and ultimately inside. Staff has set up a large screen in the room for showing video behind the dais where committee members will be seated. “We’ll talk about a lot of the work that we’ve uncovered,” Thompson told reporters. Another, Annie Howell, told a judge she met with the select committee four times. That testimony will help lay the foundation for the committee’s series of hearings planned this month. A pro-Donald Trump mob’s attack on Congress 17 months ago, threatening the transfer of presidential power, was the culmination of weeks of pre-planning by extremist groups and individuals.

The House panel investigating the attack will open its landmark series of public hearings with video testimony from people close to the former president and ...

Still, prosecutors have said that one week before the Capitol attack, one of Mr. Tarrio’s girlfriends gave him a document titled “1776 Returns,” containing a detailed plan to monitor and storm government buildings near the Capitol on Jan. 6 — though not the Capitol itself. Mr. Quested spent a good deal of the postelection period filming members of the Proud Boys, including Mr. Tarrio, and is considered by the committee likely to have been a witness to their conversations planning for Jan. 6. Mr. Tarrio also helped create a “command and control structure” on a private Telegram group chat calling itself the Ministry of Self Defense, prosecutors say. Instead, Mr. Biden and his team are taking a mostly quiet approach to the public phase of the committee’s work. Mr. Quested accompanied the Proud Boys to pro-Trump rallies in Washington in November and December 2020 and was on the ground with members of the group on Jan. 6, when several played a crucial role in breaching the Capitol. The New York Times will provide live video of the hearing at nytimes.com along with live discussion and analysis from Times reporters. But even as many of Mr. Biden’s supporters say they want him to be more outspoken, the president and his allies are mindful of the risk. As I said when it was occurring and subsequently, I think it was a clear, flagrant violation of the constitution. But what Republicans consider her sins have made Ms. Cheney a pivotal ally for Democrats, who handed her a leading role as the vice chair of the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. Three out of four households tuned into at least some of the Watergate hearings; it is not clear that a comparable audience will watch some or all of the six hearings now planned for June in an era of hundreds of cable channels and streaming alternatives. It is a far more partisan, polarized era, with a bevy of media outlets catering to different ideological camps, voters more locked into their positions and a Republican Party that remains in thrall to its scandal-torn president rather than eager to push him aside. Other officers around the building recall hearing Officer Edwards calling for help over the radio — one of the first signs that mob violence was beginning to overrun the police presence.

Public hearings for the Jan. 6 attack at the US Capitol in DC begin Thursday, 8pm ET. Testimony from Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner was prerecorded and is ...

The riot at the Capitol was one of the most disturbing events in American history: A horde raiding the Capitol as the House and Senate meet in a Joint Session of Congress to certify the presidential election. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday morning, Robert Pape of the University of Chicago laid out the problem facing Democrats heading into Thursday’s hearing. You’ve heard committee members and other Democrats suggest dire warnings that "the future of democracy" is at stake. Political observers from both sides are keenly watching to see what impact the 1/6 committee hearings have. Still, a wide swath of Republicans nationwide and GOPers in Congress support former President Trump. Even after authorities regained control of the building, 147 House and Senate members voted against certifying election results. "One of the things that can occupy my country tonight, I suspect, is the first open hearings on Jan. 6," Biden said. "First and foremost, the Capitol was not secure that day. Yes, it's about our democracy that is on the ballot. Republican Study Committee Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., is leading a separate GOP-led investigation into Jan. 6 events. It's a disgrace," the narrator says in the ad. Of its nine members, seven are Democrats and the two Republicans – Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill. -- were handpicked by Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had chosen five other Republicans, but Pelosi rejected all of them. It's always been about the kitchen table issues.

The first prime-time Jan. 6 congressional hearing will feature a Capitol Police officer and a documentarian who was filming the Proud Boys on the day of the ...

He was pressured by Trump allies to send a letter from the Justice Department to state officials about false election fraud claims — thus lending them legitimacy — and he was a key figure in pushing back. He wrote an op-ed on CNN this spring warning that he thinks they’re actually designed with the intention to steal a future election — that 2020 was a “dry run”: “Trump, or his anointed successor, and the Republicans are poised, in their word, to ‘steal’ from Democrats the presidential election in 2024.” When the attack happened, Jacob was on the receiving end of a fiery email from Eastman, accusing Pence of causing the attack by not rejecting electoral results. He was also in conversations with one of Trump’s lawyers, John Eastman, who appears to be the architect of the legal strategy in which Pence would throw results back to the states on Jan. 6 or overturn them outright. But Pence ultimately determined he had no authority to reject any state’s electoral results, and announced as much that morning — a decision consistent with almost all mainstream legal analysis of his powers under the 1880s Electoral Count Act. Short warned Pence’s lead Secret Service agent that the president might speak out against the vice president and pose a security risk, t he New York Times reported. “A sergeant standing closer to the Capitol looked over just in time to see a bike rack heaved up and onto Edwards,” reports the New York Times magazine, “whom he recognized by her tied-back blond hair.

For the last 10 months, a House select committee has been investigating last year's deadly attack on the US Capitol. Starting Thursday night, we begin to ...

The panel has been working toward a thesis that Trump's obsession with his election loss and his peddling of false claims about the results is what laid the groundwork for the riot. The prime-time public hearing is expected to be a broad overview of the panel's findings, setting the stage for subsequent hearings that will continue next week. For the last 10 months, a House select committee has been investigating last year's deadly attack on the US Capitol.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is holding the first in a series of hearings laying out its initial findings ...

The House committee examining Trump's drive to subvert the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 insurrection is holding the first in a series of public hearings.

If somebody cannot look at this and put country over party, I don’t know what to say,” she said. She continued to describe a “war scene” with a steady voice, displaying little emotion. Rioter Eric Barber, who was later charged with theft and unlawful demonstration in the Capitol, said Trump “personally asked for us to come to D.C. that day. All pointed to Trump, whom they felt had personally invited them to Washington. When she regained consciousness, Edwards said “adrenaline kicked in” and she rushed to support other officers who had been pushed back by the rioters. “When I fell behind that line … I can just remember my breath catching in my throat because what I saw was just a war scene,” Edwards said. “I was surprised at the size of the group, the anger and the profanity,” Quested testified. - How the committee plans to tell its story. And that was just really rough to get through,” he said. After the hearing, he explained: “So many people have been saying that it wasn’t an insurrection, from trolls on the internet to elected officials,” he told reporters. Tonight’s hearing focused on the violence unleashed on Jan. 6, the day Congress met to certify the results of the electoral college. But Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, dismissed as “whining” threats by White House counsel Pat Cipollone to resign in the weeks before Jan. 6, according to a clip of Kushner’s deposition.

As the Jan. 6 committee gears up for its blockbuster public hearings, vulnerable House Democrats tell Axios the topic hasn't broken through as a major issue ...

Driving the news: The impromptu support group of about 20 members formed via text chain in the aftermath of Jan. 6 and has pushed various initiatives and legislation in the wake of the insurrection. Between the lines: The approach of the House Democratic campaign apparatus has been to deploy Jan. 6 on the campaign trail in a targeted way, while also hammering on broader issues of democracy and extremism. Members of a group of House Democrats known as the Gallery Group — after they were trapped together in the House gallery during the Capitol riot — will attend Thursday's prime-time, Watergate-style hearing as a group, Axios has confirmed. Driving the news: House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), one of former President Trump's top Jan. 6 surrogates, accused Democrats of "scrambling to change the headlines, praying that the nation will focus on their partisan witch hunt instead of our pocketbooks." House Republicans, eager to get ahead of the barrage of revelations the Jan. 6 committee has planned for its prime-time hearing tomorrow night, launched their counter-programming blitz in earnest this morning. - "I hope that the hearings and the report get to new people who maybe aren't thinking about Jan. 6," Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said, though she cautioned that it's hard to say for sure if they will "absolutely change the politics on the ground in Michigan." 4 things to watch in the GOP's defense against the Jan. 6 hearing Driving the news: Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pa.) told Axios that voters who view Jan. 6 as a top issue are already more likely to be voting for Democrats, and that Fox News' refusal to air the hearings live will limit their reach to persuadable voters. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) said issues like immigration and oil and gas have dominated the discourse in his South Texas border district, but that the hearings might help to "refresh people's minds" about what happened on Jan. 6. Why it matters: The committee has been building its case for the better part of a year that Republicans were at best complicit and at worst instigators in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. As the Jan. 6 committee gears up for its blockbuster public hearings, vulnerable House Democrats tell Axios the topic hasn't broken through as a major issue in their districts — but that the hearings have the potential to change that. - But the climax of that effort comes 17 months after the attack — and at a moment of serious political peril for Democrats, who are struggling to flip the script against the backdrop of an unpopular president and soaring inflation.

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol will hold its first prime-time hearing on Thursday. The panel will share ...

Asked why, Wallace cited a couple of reasons, including the “hype” and “over-selling” of the committee. The conspiracy to thwart the will of the people is not over,” Thompson will say in his opening remarks, an excerpt of which was shared in advance by the committee. “I think that’s a bad look both for the committee and the mainstream media to seem that they are hand in glove with each other.” We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. Like many in the audience, they appear eager to be a part of a historic event. A pair of police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 — Harry Dunn and Michael Fanone — have front-row seats to Thursday’s proceedings. “And in that context, I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff, which I told the President was bullshit,” Barr said. The shirt is designed “to reiterate what the actual definition of an insurrection is,” he said, because “some people clearly don’t know what it is.” “And, you know, I didn’t want to be a part of it. She is a SHERO and definition of AMERICAN PATRIOT,” Dunn tweeted earlier this week, ahead of the hearing. Rioters are also seen clashing with Capitol Police, who can be heard calling for backup and are overrun by the crowd. Speaking to reporters after the hearing ended, Dunn said a friend made the shirt for him, inspired by some conservatives applying the same term to the leak surrounding the Supreme Court’s draft Roe v.

The panel argued Thursday that the riot was the result of a coordinated effort led by extremist groups answering the call of a defeated president trying to ...

“I see it as a really important thing in terms of history — 200 years from now people may be looking back at these hearings, they may be looking back at the testimony to ascertain what exactly happened in 2021,” she said. She played a clip of testimony from Jason Miller, a former campaign spokesman, who said he was in the Oval Office when the campaign's internal data expert told Trump by phone that he was going to lose. But that also means the committee is on the hook to deliver. “Donald Trump was at the center of that conspiracy. The committee argues that Trump was at the center of a failed coup. We need to establish the narrative, you know, that the president is still in charge and that things are steady or stable,' or words to that effect," Milley recalled. He did not talk to the Department of Homeland Security. Trump gave no order to deploy the National Guard that day and made no effort to work with the Department of Justice to coordinate and deploy law enforcement assets," she continued. "He said: 'We have to kill the narrative that the vice president is making all the decisions. The committee showed a video of a meeting he filmed between the leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers in a parking garage the night before the insurrection. Chairman Thompson, introducing a new video, said the committee has obtained “substantial evidence” showing that Trump’s tweet from Dec. 19, 2020, calling his followers to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, “energized individuals from the Proud Boys and other extremist groups." Filmmaker Nick Quested testified that a large group of Proud Boys marched from Trump's speech to the Capitol on Jan. 6. “And I thought, for everything he’s done for us, if this is the only thing he’s going to ask of me, I’ll do it,” Barber said.

Ivanka Trump, a former senior adviser to her father, President Donald Trump, displayed on a screen during a hearing of the Select Committee to Investigate the ...

Thompson told reporters after the hearing that the aim of the first session was to stick with the facts the investigation uncovered. Yet that is unlikely to sway the majority of Republican leaders who continue to downplay the severity of the attack, leaving the door open, some committee members have said, for such an episode to repeat itself. Toward the end of the 11-minute video presentation—as insurrectionists could be seen beating police officers and breaking through the windows of the Capitol—the montage reached its dramatic climax by playing audio from remarks Trump made months later. “It was something like I had seen out of the movies,” she said. Much of the documentary footage the committee aired was shot by him. “The White House was receiving specific reports, including during Trump’s Ellipse rally, that elements in the crowd were preparing for violence.” As the Capitol was under attack—and the building was breached by violent insurrectionists—Trump refused to call in the military or National Guard to protect Congress, leaving the vice president to do so instead. “I documented the crowd turn from protestors, to rioters, to insurrectionists,” he told the House panel. On Thursday night, Thompson and Cheney telegraphed threads of a conspiracy they intend to bring to light over five subsequent hearings, showing how members of two far-right groups in particular, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, were working well in advance to prepare for the Capitol invasion, with much of those efforts spurred by Trump’s statements. The committee also sought to provide evidence that Trump did not take action to stop the Capitol attack as it was unfolding, even expressing approval as the mayhem unfolded. “You’ve got a job to protect not just us but this country and you didn’t.” Legal experts and former prosecutors have said that any evidence that Trump was informed that he was spreading a lie to prevent Congress from certifying Biden’s election victory could implicate him on charges of intent to defraud.

In a public prime-time hearing, the Jan. 6 committee laid out findings on the pro-Donald Trump mob's insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The heart of the complaint is that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., refused to seat GOP Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana and Jim Jordan of Ohio on the panel. The day before the riot, Quested also filmed the leaders of two far-right groups – Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, who are each charged with seditious conspiracy – meeting in a parking garage near the Capitol, according to the New York Times. “I told the president it was bull----,” Barr said in a videotaped deposition played at the hearing. He said a series of hearings this month won’t just look backward at what happened Jan. 6, 2021, but also forward to protect the rule of law. I think you can look that there’s a lot of problems still with the election process.” “This is what he told his staff as they pleaded with him to call off the mob." Cheney said Trump wanted to prevent the transfer of presidential power. Ivanka Trump said she trusted the finding because she respected then-Attorney General William Barr, who said he resigned in part rather than fight to overturn the election. “We need to kill the narrative that the Vice President is making all the decisions,” Milley recalled Meadows telling him in a deposition excerpt. The next day, Trump tweeted that there would be a big protest in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6th. At a DC watch party, Zak Sabim from Virginia listened to the hearing "because I think right is right and wrong is wrong." “Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible,” she said.

The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 US Capitol attack held its first prime-time hearing Thursday evening, detailing the findings of ...

I was called a traitor to my country, my home, and my Constitution. In actuality, I was none of those things." "He said: We have to kill the narrative that the vice president is making all the decisions. There was no question about that," Milley says in the video. "I immediately interpreted that as politics, politics, politics. The committee said that Edwards was the first officer injured by the rioters. "I was an American standing face to face with other Americans asking myself how many time -- many, many times -- how we had gotten here. The January 6 committee has subpoenaed McCarthy seeking information about the call. They showed new testimony from Proud Boys leaders about how they viewed that as a call to arms. The footage also showed how the crowd took its cues directly from Trump, with one rioter reading a Trump tweet on a megaphone for the other rioters to hear. These clips immediately harkened back the horrors of January 6, which can easily get lost amid the partisan bickering over the committee and its investigation. These groups were at the vanguard of the riot. They were among the first to breach the building, and are accused of planning violence.

The committee said they held former president Donald Trump directly culpable for the violence of Jan. 6.

The committee presented evidence that membership of the Proud Boys “tripled” after Trump praised them in a presidential debate toward the end of the election campaign. We did this,” the leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, said in an encrypted text, according to a Justice Department indictment of Tarrio. He and four of his top lieutenants were recently charged with seditious conspiracy — alleging they conspired to overthrow the government. Five people died on that day or in the immediate aftermath, and 140 police officers were assaulted. In the audience were Sicknick’s relatives, as well as other family members of Capitol Hill police officers. “It was the culmination of a months-long effort spearheaded by President Trump.” “I’m reminded of that dark history as I hear voices today try to justify the actions of the insurrectionists.” And the committee presented evidence that the groups took credit for the attack. It’s a lot for the committee to tackle — all while keeping Americans’ attention span over a long period of time. On Thursday, it laid out exactly how it will try to tell the story of the Jan. 6 attack and who was responsible for it. And in Cheney’s words, after the attack, White House staff feared that Trump “was too dangerous to be left alone.” “President Trump ignored the rulings of our nation’s courts,” Cheney said. The committee played testimony from Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, saying that it was Vice President Mike Pence who made those calls.

The House select committee investigating the deadly January 6 assault on the US Capitol in 2021 said Donald Trump was at the center of a sprawling conspiracy to ...

“The world is watching what we do here.” The attack, which played out in real-time on national television, left more than 100 police officers injured, as they clashed with a pro-Trump mob. The panel also heard from Caroline Edwards, a Capitol police officer who described in harrowing detail how she was assaulted by the mob, some armed with bats, clubs and bear spray. “The American people deserve answers,” said Congressman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat and chairman of the committee. “It was carnage. Perry’s office denied the allegation.

In the first Jan. 6 hearing investigating the January 6 insurrection, the House committee shared evidence including video from the attack and witness ...

Cannon testified that he informed Meadows that “we weren’t finding anything that would be sufficient to change the results in any of the key states.” Cheney also said that the committee continues to investigate and that more information could come to light. The committee aired a snippet of Kushner’s response, in which he said Cipollone and people in his office often said they would leave. With the building overrun, Trump didn’t alert any arm of government to defend the people inside, the committee said. The hearing served as something of a teaser. Trump’s behavior was so disturbing that his Cabinet considered whether he needed to be removed. We need to establish the narrative that the president is still in charge and that things are steady or stable, or words to that effect.” Milley dismissed Meadows’ focus as, simply, “politics,” and added, “I don’t do political narratives.” Secret Service agents rushed Pence to safety as rioters roamed the Capitol. His top aide, meanwhile, didn’t want Trump to be upstaged by the vice president. By making Trump a singular focus, the committee risks appearing to be a partisan player, not a neutral fact-finder. But having interviewed 1,000 people behind closed doors and collected 140,000 records, the committee presented findings that proved surprising enough to elicit gasps from lawmakers in the hearing room. Trump believed that his supporters “were doing what they should be doing,” Cheney said.

A House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection opened its series of public hearings with dramatic testimony from an injured US Capitol Police ...

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is holding the first in a series of televised hearings tonight.

We do know the committee has been looking into the ways former President Trump tried to pressure staff and even former Vice President Pence to help overturn the election result. JAMIE RASKIN: We're not in the business of entertainment. You know, committee member Adam Schiff told reporters yesterday that the events were dramatic and the threat to democracy is dramatic, and the hearings should convey that. MARTIN: So, Kelsey, many Republicans have just refused the legitimacy of this committee. KELSEY SNELL, BYLINE: They're kind of seeing this as an opportunity to set the tone and remind the country about the story of that day. And this will be the first time the public is seeing many of the photos and videos and hearing many of these firsthand accounts.

The committee transported the audience back to Jan. 6 with video of what happened that day. It also made a strong case that former President Trump was ...

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As the sessions began, no solid evidence linked the Watergate burglars to Nixon or anyone in the White House, and, though Dash and other staffers knew of some ...

By contrast, the Watergate hearings took place while Nixon was still president, and a grand jury was probing the same crimes separately and in secret. Dean told me in an email on Thursday that he started cooperating with the Ervin committee in late April, a few weeks before the hearings began—while he was still White House counsel. The committee subpoenaed the tapes—the first time Congress had ever subpoenaed a president. Reportedly, the Jan. 6 committee and today’s Justice Department are doing the same. I tuned in to the Jan. 6 hearings Thursday night doubtful that they would be nearly as compelling as the Watergate hearings—the gold standard of high-drama congressional investigations from nearly a half-century ago. Dean was White House counsel: He had taken part in crimes, led the cover-up, and eventually served a short jail sentence. As the sessions began, no solid evidence linked the Watergate burglars to Nixon or anyone in the White House, and, though Dash and other staffers knew of some evidence, it would have backfired to push the connection prematurely. Things got a bit more interesting on Day 2, when James McCord, one of the burglars, testified that he thought Attorney General John Mitchell had approved the operation and that Howard Hunt, a CIA veteran who worked for Nixon, had advised him to plead guilty and wait for a pardon. Over the next two days, other White House aides, most of them mid-level, were drawn into the plot and the cover-up. They were watched by millions as avidly as the soap operas that the hearings preempted, to almost no complaint. Not till July 16, Day 21 of the hearings, did Alexander Butterfield, the Secret Service agent, testify that Nixon had secretly tape-recorded hours and hours of White House meetings. I vividly remember watching the Watergate hearings on TV every day back in 1973.

Meanwhile, President Biden remains in Los Angeles, where he is hosting a Summit of the Americas. Biden also plans an event Friday focused on inflation, ...

A hearing next week is scheduled to focus on President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign to persuade Vice President Mike Pence to halt or delay the electoral certification of Joe Biden’s win. But the crime the committee has spotlighted — obstruction of official proceeding — requires acting “corruptly.” Showing that Trump was told his claims were false, or that he understood that and pressed forward with attempting to overturn democracy regardless, would be hugely significant.Early in Thursday’s first public Jan. 6 hearing, the committee set about making that case. During Thursday’s hearing, the House Jan. 6 committee started building a case that President Donald Trump knew better. “This is not a serious investigation,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), who replaced Cheney last year as the No. 3 House Republican, said on Newsmax. “This is a partisan political witch hunt.”Pelosi last year vetoed two of the five Republicans McCarthy appointed to the committee, leading House Republicans to refuse to participate. They are lying, and we’re not going to help them do it.” But what did the conservative cable channel air instead when the hearing started at 8 p.m. Eastern? During the riot, Brian D. Sicknick was sprayed with a powerful chemical irritant. It’s all been made to go away. “Clearly individuals who were seeking pardons specifically after Jan. 6 really begs the question, ‘What level of behavior did they engage in if they felt it was necessary to seek and receive a pardon?’” Perry, who has declined to testify before the committee, was involved in trying to get an attorney general more favorable to Trump appointed, Cheney said. The government reported Friday that inflation in May climbed 8.6 percent, compared to the year before, and remained at the highest level in 40 years. Today, following a rare evening congressional hearing in which members of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol blamed that day’s violence squarely on former president Donald Trump, the panel is planning additional high-profile hearings starting next week.

The committee's leaders laid out what they described as an intentional scheme with Donald J. Trump at the center. Videotaped testimony showed that key ...

“Tonight I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible,” she said. Once she came to and beheld the scene from behind police lines, Officer Edwards said, her breath was taken away. It showed how Mr. Trump and his loyalists had used a calculated campaign of lies to bind his followers and build support for his attempt to stay in power, through extralegal means and violence. “The back of my head clipped the concrete stairs behind me,” she testified, recounting the moment before she lost consciousness. “It was chaos. Both leaders had blistering words for Mr. Trump and about the threat he poses to American democracy. “So there’s no there there?” Mr. Meadows responded, according to Mr. Cannon’s account. “It was carnage,” she said. The hearing concluded with a hint of what was to come in the next hearings, which committee members hope will show how Mr. Trump was personally responsible for the worst attack on the Capitol since the British ransacked it in 1814 and that he remains a threat to the American democratic experiment. Her testimony of continuing to fight off the rioters in efforts to protect the Capitol provided a striking contrast with the committee’s account of Mr. Trump sitting in the White House watching with apparent sympathy as the mob ransacked the building, yelling at aides who implored him to call off the violence and saying at one point, “Maybe our supporters have the right idea.” The committee played excerpts from videotaped interviews of former Attorney General William P. Barr, who said he had told Mr. Trump that the talk of widespread fraud in the 2020 election was “bullshit.” There was a clip of his daughter Ivanka Trump saying that she accepted Mr. Barr’s conclusions and of a campaign lawyer, Alex Cannon, who told Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff, that Trump allies had found no election issues that could reverse the results in key states. The hearing used the videotaped testimony of some of Mr. Trump’s closest aides and allies to show that the Trump campaign and his White House — and perhaps the president himself — had known well that Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the 2020 election.

The January 6 Select Committee conducted its first primetime hearings on Thursday evening that included revelations about Capitol riots and former President ...

Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, revealed that Pence sought support from the National Guard in a phone call as Cheney noted Trump was hesitant to call in assistance from the Department of Defense. Cheney also said Trump responded to chants by his supporters to “hang Mike Pence” by saying that the former vice president “deserves it.” The chair of the committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), accused Trump of energizing extremist groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers by asking his supporters to travel to D.C. on January 6 and tweeting, “Be there, will be wild!.” Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards also testified before the committee and said the area looked like a “warzone,” adding she witnessed “hours of hand-to-hand combat” between police and rioters. It included testimony by documentary filmmaker Nick Quested—who was following the far-right extremist group Proud Boys—that members of the group started moving towards the Capitol before Trump finished his speech at a “Stop The Steal” rally in Washington on the day of the riots. unconstitutional” attempt to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence to block the counting of electoral votes in Congress on January 6. Dates for the fourth and following hearings are yet to be announced but according to Cheney, it will focus on Trump’s “illegal and… The subsequent two hearings will reveal details of how Trump on January 6 “summoned a violent mob and directed them” to march on the Capitol and then failed to take action to halt the violence, Cheney said.The subsequent two hearings will reveal details of how Trump on January 6 “summoned a violent mob and directed them” to march on the Capitol and then failed to take action to halt the violence, Cheney said. The next hearing will focus on how Trump ignored court rulings, advice from his aides and other government officials that his “frivolous” claims about a stolen election were false, Cheney said, while the committee will also outline how the former president spent millions of dollars of campaign money to spread disinformation and run false ads that the election was stolen from him, which in turn provoked the January 6 riots.The next hearing will focus on how Trump ignored court rulings, advice from his aides and other government officials that his “frivolous” claims about a stolen election were false, Cheney said, while the committee will also outline how the former president spent millions of dollars of campaign money to spread disinformation and run false ads that the election was stolen from him, which in turn provoked the January 6 riots.

A Capitol Police officer who was injured during the attack described a “war scene." WASHINGTON — Members of a House Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 ...

Cheney said the hearings to come will show that Trump believed rioters at the Capitol were, in his words, "doing what they should be doing." "We know that because they left for the Capitol before President Trump's speech began." "They knew the president needed to be cut off from all of those who have encouraged him. “In actuality, I was none of those things,” she said. "The White House staff knew that President Trump was willing to entertain and use conspiracy theories to achieve his ends," Cheney said. In contrast, Milley recounted what Meadows said to him: "He said, 'We have to kill the narrative that the vice president is making all the decisions. A day after the attack, Fox News host Sean Hannity texted White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany about what Trump needed: "No more crazy people" and "no more stolen election talk ... Many people will quit." Following that tweet – “Be there, will be wild!" "But despite this, President Trump engaged in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information to convince huge portions of the U.S. population that fraud had stolen the election from him," Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said during opening remarks. "Vice President Pence did each of those things," Cheney said, pointing to a videotaped deposition from Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Leading up to the Jan. 6 insurrection, Trump for weeks made false claims of voting fraud and illegal mail-in voting in key swing states. Here's who testified about the Capitol riot

The Jan. 6 committee's next hearing is Monday at 10 a.m. Two more hearings are scheduled for next week as the panel unveils its findings.

The committee will present more evidence when it meets three times next week, part of a series of eight hearings on its findings. In the room: Tears, tissues, T-shirts: What it was like in the hearing room during the Jan. 6 committee hearing - The Jan. 6 committee's next hearing is Monday at 10 a.m. The next hearing is Monday at 10 a.m. The remaining four hearings have not yet been scheduled. The Jan. 6 committee's next hearing is Monday at 10 a.m. Two more hearings are scheduled for next week as the panel unveils its findings. Jan. 6 committee hearing schedule: Here's what we know about the upcoming Jan. 6 hearings

The House committee investigating Jan. 6 will hold six more public hearings featuring evidence that Trump directed the mob to march on the Capitol.

He did not talk to the Department of Homeland Security. Trump gave no order to deploy the National Guard that day and made no effort to work with the Department of Justice to coordinate and deploy law enforcement assets. The tweet came not long after a meeting Trump had at the White House with former Gen. Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani and others who backed his fraud claims and who stayed late into the evening that night. But Mike Pence did each of those things," Cheney said. He said he told the president his claims about Dominion voting machines were "crazy stuff." Cheney said lawmakers will present evidence during future hearings that demonstrates what motivated the violence, "including directly from those who participated in this attack." Stirewalt has been sharply critical of his former Fox colleagues' coverage of the election and Trump’s lies about it afterward. "You will also hear that President Trump met with that group alone for a period of time before White House lawyers and other staff discovered that the group was there, and rushed to intervene," Cheney said. Cheney said that, in the final June hearings, the committee will examine how Trump summoned a violent mob and directed them to "illegally" march on the U.S. Capitol. "In our hearings, you will hear first-hand how the senior leadership of the department threatened to resign, how the White House Counsel threatened to resign, and how they confronted Donald Trump and Jeff Clark in the Oval Office," Cheney said Thursday. "Witnesses in these hearings will explain how the former vice president and his staff informed President Trump over and over again that what he was pressuring Mike Pence to do was illegal," she said Thursday as she previewed the hearings. The committee will show how Trump pressured Pence both in private and public, she said, and will present "evidence of that pressure from multiple witnesses live and on recorded video." Cheney said the hearing will revolve around Trump's effort "to convince huge portions of the U.S. population that fraud had stolen the election from him" despite hearing from numerous advisers that he had lost.

Previously unaired security camera videos, exclusive documentary footage and police audio communications were presented at the committee's first prime-time ...

Five people died on that day or in the immediate aftermath, and 140 police officers were assaulted. In the last 15 minutes of the hearing, Thompson asked Edwards to share one memory from that day. In one video, recorded deep inside the scaffolding that held risers on the west side of the Capitol at 2:27 p.m., a D.C. officer said, “We can’t hold this. He provided the committee with footage he and his crew recorded. Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards recounted her experience and the injuries she and her colleagues sustained that day. The American flag, as well as flags reading “Don’t tread on me” and “MAGA,” wave in the wind above the mob. One shoved an officer with such force that another officer had to carry his colleague away from the mob. A camera positioned on the northwest roof captured the first breach of the Capitol complex. Some of this footage was previously made public in court filings, but it was not immediately clear which videos were being shown for the first time. “We are going to give riot warnings,” D.C. police Cmdr. Robert Glover, who goes by the call sign Cruiser 50, shouted into his radio. That this was no tourist visit to the Capitol,” Thompson said. “The violence was no accident.”

The number, which will grow as the count adds more networks, is in the ballpark of big television events like a “Sunday Night Football” game.

Some major Fox affiliates, like Los Angeles and Chicago, took the feed while others aired regularly scheduled unscripted programming. And it’s in the ballpark of television events like a big “Sunday Night Football” game or the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. They are lying, and we are not going to help them do it. Fox News, the most-watched network in cable, did not carry the hearings live, instead sticking with its usual prime-time lineup. MSNBC had an average audience of 4.2 million, and CNN drew 2.6 million. NBC and CBS each had an audience of more than three million.