January 6 hearings

This hearing pulled back the curtain on what life was like on the Trump campaign and in the White House in the days following election night 2020. With taped ...

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Other developments from Monday's Jan. 6 hearing: The committee said Trump knew mail ballots favored Biden but claimed victory against advice.

"The Trump campaign had a couple of basic problems. "I don't believe there is actually a fund called the Election Defense Fund," Hanna Allred, a former Trump campaign staff member, told the committee. The fact that his litigation continued anyway, she said, "makes more sense" when considering it was a way to raise money. "So not only was there the big lie, there was the big rip-off," Logren said. Giuliani told the committee he spoke to Trump "several times" that night. Advisers were also clear to Trump that he, in fact, lost the election. The committee played videos of some of Giuliani and Powell's wildest theories that have been disproven. “That seemed to be the basis for this broad claim that there was major fraud," Barr said. Instead, the committee said, Trump leaned on the advice of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to claim he won. Biden dominated votes cast by mail after Trump spent months attacking the practice. The committee argued he defrauded the public by raising millions of dollars off lies. He ignored the will of the voters.

Top Trump aides, administration officials and election administrators viewed claims of 2020 election fraud as "bogus and silly," "absurd," "fantastical" and ...

"We took seriously every case that was referred to us, no matter how fantastical, no matter how absurd, and took every one of those seriously, including these." This is the basis of the "red mirage," the sense that the Republican is winning. A former campaign staffer said, "I don't believe there is actually a fund called the 'Election Defense Fund.'" "I don't believe there is actually a fund called the 'Election Defense Fund'," she said. "We had gone to pains, and I'm proud of the pains we went to make sure that we were informing viewers that this was going to happen because the Trump campaign and the president had made it clear they were going to try to exploit this anomaly." Trump, in Barr's telling, "generally was the weak element on the Republican ticket. We don't want them to find any ballots at 4 o'clock in the morning and add them to the list." Stirewalt said that when Fox News called Arizona, it was controversial to "our competitors" but that he had no doubts about the call. "When you're talking about a recount, you're talking about hundreds of votes. It was the state that pushed Mr. Biden's electoral vote total to 273 and ensured his victory over Trump in the presidential election. Stepien, in an excerpt of his interview with the committee, said he felt that it was "far too early" to say Trump had won. The committee also played video of Ivanka Trump, who did not recall having a "firm" view of what her father should do, but she said she knew the "race would not be called on election night."

The select committee has announced without explanation that the hearing scheduled for June 15 has been postponed. The next hearing will take place June 16.

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The session had been scheduled to focus on President Donald J. Trump's effort to use the Justice Department to overturn the 2020 election.

The session had been scheduled to focus on President Donald J. Trump’s effort to use the Justice Department to overturn the 2020 election. The panel is still scheduled to hold a hearing on Thursday focusing on Mr. Trump’s pressure campaign against Vice President Mike Pence to try to persuade him to throw out Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory. WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has postponed a hearing that was scheduled for Wednesday to lay out its findings about President Donald J. Trump’s attempt to use the Justice Department to overturn the 2020 election, the panel said on Tuesday.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol announced in a statement Tuesday that it was postponing its public hearing that was.

Lofgren on Tuesday reiterated comments made a day earlier by Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., that the committee would not make any criminal referrals. "Our investigation is ongoing and we will continue to gather all relevant information as we present facts, offer recommendations and, if warranted, make criminal referrals." Wednesday's hearing had been expected to focus on then-President Donald Trump's unsuccessful plan to replace Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Justice Department lawyer Jeffrey Clark, who was more supportive of Trump’s fraud claims. The next hearing will take place on Thursday instead. The three other hearings set for June have not been scheduled yet. WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol announced in a statement Tuesday that it was postponing its public hearing that was scheduled for 10 a.m. ET Wednesday.