Jan. 6 hearings

In Rep. Abigail Spanberger's competitive 7th Congressional District, some voters are more concerned with economic issues than the ongoing Jan.

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Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), one of two Republicans on the House Jan. 6 committee, recently made public a letter mailed to his home threatening to kill him, ...

Charges: Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants have been charged with seditious conspiracy, joining Oathkeepers leader Stewart Rhodes and about two dozen associates in being indicted for their participation in the Capitol attack. Five people died on that day or in the immediate aftermath, and 140 police officers were assaulted. “Democrats are toast in the midterms.” This has been the Fox News refrain from the start of its brownout coverage of the Jan. 6 hearings. It will share it’s findings in a series of hearings starting June 9. Congressional hearings: The House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol has conducted more than 1,000 interviews over the last year. Find the latest here. The conservative elites surely know we are moving toward instability and violence. We didn’t arrive at this precarious moment solely because of Trump. Trump couldn’t have happened if Fox News and Republican elites hadn’t normalized his threats to democratic traditions. Her mother had to abandon her home for two months at the FBI’s urging. Someone’s going to get killed. It’s reductive, and reckless.

Counsel for Ethan Nordean argued that he would oppose a trial delay if he was not also granted pretrial release under a set of strict conditions.

But Nordean's June 20 filing, which came in response to Biggs' motion, suggested that he would not support a trial delay by itself. "Biggs seeks to start trial after the midterms are over and some 'dust has settled' with respect to public opinion." "Strong and strident mentions of Proud Boy 'Joseph Biggs' by her and other Congressional players were featured in the hearings on the night of June 9 alone," the motion said.

The latest hearing before the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection revealed new details Tuesday about how former President Donald ...

Trump, Giuliani and other GOP figures put them both at the center of their unhinged lies about massive voter fraud in Georgia. These January 6 hearings are all about exposing Trump's efforts to enlist fellow Americans in his campaign to subvert the results. "...Anywhere, anyone anytime who has said that I said the election was rigged -- that would not be true." This time around, the January 6 committee played the recordings of Trump's transition-era conversations with Raffnesperger and Frances Watson All of the witnesses who appeared at Tuesday's hearing talked about the serious repercussions they faced as a result of the false claims that Trump and his team put forward. Coverage of Trump's presidency often focused on his words and lies. The role that Trump's allies in Congress played have been of interest of interest to the committee, which has subpoenaed five House GOP members, including Biggs and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. They all provided damning testimony against Trump, describing how he repeatedly tried to twist their arms and cajole them to overturn the results. Schiff cited Raffensperger's book, in which he wrote, "I felt then and still believe today that this was a threat." an investigator with the committee asked McDaniel, according to video of her testimony played during the hearing. And he read passages from his personal journal about friends who had turned on him. The second occurred several hours later, minutes before then-Vice President Mike Pence gaveled in the joint session of Congress to certify the electoral votes.

Republicans in key states Donald Trump lost stood up to the former president again and again as he failed to convince them he won the 2020 election.

“The president's lie was and is a dangerous cancer on the body politic,” Schiff said. “It was disturbing,” Bowers said. “The uncertainty of that was the fear. And so that was the scariest moment, just not knowing what was going to happen.” The deluge of emails and calls made it challenging for his office to work and communicate, Bowers said. Bowers testified protesters outside his home played videos and blared claims over loudspeakers that he was corrupt and a pedophile. “They were believing things that were untrue.” “And so we’re very concerned about her safety also.” I second-guess everything that I do,” Moss said. I don't go to the grocery store at all.” In the most emotional testimony, Moss described social media attacks and death threats after Trump’s allies circulated a video falsely accusing her of election fraud. "When he used the power of his presidency to put the enormous pressure on state and local election officials, and his own vice president, it became downright dangerous," said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who led the questioning.

'Pressuring public servants into betraying their oaths was a fundamental part of the playbook,' says Adam Schiff.

According to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll, 58% of Americans now believe that Trump should face criminal charges in connection to the Capitol attack. In the weeks and months after the election, Raffensperger and his family members received violent threats, and many people sent “disgusting”, “sexualized” texts to his wife, he told the committee. Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, also testified on Tuesday about Trump’s relentless campaign to reverse Biden’s victory in the battleground state. The committee presented additional evidence on Tuesday that Republican members of Congress were involved in the scheme to overturn the election. The panel then shared a text exchange between Pence’s legislative affairs director, Chris Hodgson, and an aide to Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican of Wisconsin, on January 6. “In fact, pressuring public servants into betraying their oaths was a fundamental part of the playbook.”

Why it matters: The hearings have managed to capture public attention with new revelations about former President Trump and his allies' roles in the Capitol ...

- "We're constantly incorporating and including the new information that is coming out," Raskin continued. - Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), also a member of the committee, told Axios "the schedule is fluid" and that the panel may take "a little more time before we have certain hearings." - Raskin credited the hearings with surging public interest in the panel’s work: "I think that people are seeing that we're running a serious investigation … and a lot of people coming forward now with information."

Prosecutors and defense lawyers say the high-profile Jan. 6 congressional hearings could jeopardize fairness in upcoming criminal trials.

Federal prosecutors have also asked the judge for a delay, citing their need to review committee transcripts before trial. And September will also feature heated congressional races, in which the importance or danger of Jan. 6 is likely to be debated frequently. In response, the chairman of the panel, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) said that the committee will cooperate with the Justice Department but has to finish its hearing work first. The executive was later acquitted at trial of a related false-statements accusation. Under a long-established court precedent called Brady, federal prosecutors are obligated to share with the defense any exculpatory material the government has. Prosecutors have said that timetable is not good enough because they need to see any such evidence well before the trial begins.

State officials who resisted pressure from Donald Trump to overturn election results testified Tuesday to withstanding an atmosphere of escalating menace ...

The Jan. 6 hearings, which had been scheduled to wrap up Thursday, may stretch well into the summer, a committee member says.

“The original hearings would have wrapped up in June, but we are picking up new evidence on a daily basis with enormous velocity, and so we’re constantly incorporating and including the new information that’s coming out,” committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told reporters after Tuesday’s hearing. Donoghue, in a deposition clip shown at the end of Tuesday’s hearing, said he would have instantly resigned if Trump did so. “There is evidence coming in from diverse sources now,” he said, “and I think that people have seen that we’re running a serious investigation that is bipartisan in nature, that is focused just on getting the facts of what happened, and a lot of people are coming forward now with information.” Former Assistant Atty. Gen. Jeffrey Clark is alleged to have repeatedly pushed his colleagues in the Justice Department to investigate new theories about election fraud and asked the department to instruct some states to “decertify” the results. “Just as we heard today that Donald Trump was deeply involved in the scheme to pressure state officials to overturn the election results, we will hear on Thursday that Donald Trump was also the driving force behind the effort to corrupt the Justice Department,” Thompson said. The House hearings investigating the catalysts behind the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol will continue Thursday and is expected to explore then-President Trump’s efforts to pressure the Justice Department in the days after the election.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is going public with its findings. Lawmakers hope to show the American public how ...

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is going public with its findings. You want to know what is really going on these days, especially in Colorado. We can help you keep up. More than 1,000 people have been interviewed by the panel, and only snippets of that testimony have been revealed to the public, mostly through court filings.

1. Rusty Bowers's compelling testimony: More evidence the Trump team knew its effort was illegal. Arizona House Speaker Russell “Rusty” Bowers (R) provided some ...

Johnson’s office responded to the committee evidence by saying Johnson himself “had no involvement in the creation of an alternate slate of electors and had no foreknowledge that it was going to be delivered to our office.” “I did have a conversation with the president; that certainly isn’t it,” he said, calling the allegation “false.” - Bowers said his office received 20,000 emails and “tens of thousands” of voice mails. “And I said, 'You’re asking me to do something that’s never been done in history — the history of the United States. And I’m not going to put my state through that without sufficient proof? - Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutler (R) received daily calls from Trump’s legal team, to the point where he had his lawyers ask for it to stop because it was inappropriate, according to the committee. - Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey (R) said he received “just shy of 4,000 text messages over a short period of time calling [me] to take action” after Trump retweeted his phone number. A White House lawyer also said Giuliani conceded to him that the plot was unlikely to stand up in court. But it suggests Trump was clued in on this part of the effort early on. “He pressed that point, and I said, ‘Look, you are asking me to do something that is counter to my oath, when I swore to the Constitution to uphold it. A Pence aide instructed another aide not to deliver the list. “And I don’t know if that was a gaffe or maybe he didn’t think through what he said. Arizona House Speaker Russell “Rusty” Bowers (R) provided some of the most compelling testimony at Tuesday’s hearing — and of any hearing thus far.

Johnson hoped to “hand deliver” fake electors from Wisconsin and Michigan on January 6, according to the committee.

The three previous hearings focused on the actions of rioters on January 6, Trump’s choice to ignore advisors who told him he lost the election and the former president’s effort to convince Pence to block the certification of the election. Thursday’s hearing, the fourth from the January 6 committee, focused on Trump’s push to get individual states to overturn election results. The January 6 committee presented evidence Tuesday that they say shows Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson (R) wanted to “hand deliver” slates of fake electors to Vice President Mike Pence during the certification of the presidential election on January 6, 2021, as part of an effort endorsed by former President Donald Trump’s legal team to overturn the election results.

An aide for U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson told former Vice President Mike Pence's staff that the Republican from Wisconsin wanted to hand-deliver to Pence fake ...

Once again, Ron Johnson has proven he’s a danger to our country and our fundamental rights.” “Freaking Trump idiots want someone to fly original elector papers to the senate President," Mark Jefferson, executive director of the Wisconsin Republican Party, texted on Jan. 4. Johnson had planned to object to accepting Wisconsin's slate of 10 electors for Joe Biden, who defeated Donald Trump in the battleground state by just under 21,000 votes. “He literally tried to hand Mike Pence fake ballots. Wisconsin's bipartisan elections commission declined to punish the fake electors, determining that no election laws had been violated. The Vice President’s office said not to give it to him and we did not.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the US Capitol is holding its fourth public hearing of the month. Watch live and follow news ...

All of the witnesses who appeared at Tuesday's hearing talked about the serious repercussions they faced as a result of the false claims that Trump and his team put forward. Trump, Giuliani and other GOP figures put them both at the center of their unhinged lies about massive voter fraud in Georgia. They all provided damning testimony against Trump, describing how he repeatedly tried to twist their arms and cajole them to overturn the results. The role that Trump's allies in Congress played have been of interest of interest to the committee, which has subpoenaed five House GOP members, including Biggs and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Her mother said she gets "nervous when I have to give food orders" because someone who believes Trump's lies might recognize her name. Coverage of Trump's presidency often focused on his words and lies. Schiff cited Raffensperger's book, in which he wrote, "I felt then and still believe today that this was a threat." Tuesday's hearing featured new details about two congressional Republicans played a role in Trump's sprawling efforts to try to overturn his 2020 election loss. The second occurred several hours later, minutes before then-Vice President Mike Pence gaveled in the joint session of Congress to certify the electoral votes. He also read passages from his personal journal about friends who had turned on him. Bowers told the committee that he received a call from Trump and Giuliani during which they urged him to go along with a plan to put forward illegitimate, pro-Trump electors from the state. Multiple witnesses told the committee that Trump was personally involved in the effort to put forward slates of fake electors in key battleground states — a key part of the broader effort to overturn Biden's legitimate election victory.

As the select panel's work continues, a core few people are emerging as vital for their willingness to defy former President Donald Trump's election ...

As Trump came closer to elevating Clark to lead DOJ, the leadership of the department — Rosen, Donoghue and Office of Legal Counsel chief Steven Engel — as well as White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, threatened to resign. The committee is slated to focus on that at the Thursday hearing, where Engel, Donoghue and Rosen are expected to testify in person. In that scenario — where a state legislature and governor have certified competing slates, with one saying Biden won and the other declaring the state for Trump — Jacob said it would be reasonable to defer to the text of the Constitution, which gives state legislatures the ultimate power to choose electors. Panel member Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.), citing a recent court filing, said one of the FBI’s confidential informants was told the Proud Boys “would have killed Mike Pence if given a chance.” Minutes after rioters breached the Capitol, a different sort of action potentially prevented a more catastrophic and violent outcome. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had his own Trump pressure campaign to deal with when the former president asked him to “find” enough votes to tip the election in his favor in a call on Jan. 2, 2021. It’s unclear whether Trump ever saw or considered the draft, but it was in keeping with the proposals discussed at the Dec. 18 meeting. Had Pence or Jacob agreed to a delay — particularly as the Capitol recovered — Trump, Eastman and lawyer Rudy Giuliani intended to use the time to bring legislatures back into season. Clark started pushing for DOJ to issue letters to multiple states where Biden won, which would have encouraged officials to reconvene their legislatures and consider whether to exercise their power to appoint new electors. Trump’s request to Raffensperger ultimately was tied to his Pence strategy. Jacob has also made clear that there was one scenario in which Pence might have been obligated to flip the outcome: if any state legislatures had actually pulled the trigger and adopted Trump electors. “And the question remains, will it hold again?”

Chairman Bennie Thompson said Tuesday: "A handful of election officials in several key states stood between Donald Trump and the upending of American democracy.

Trump, in turn, is trying to drive her out of politics by denying her another term in office. Cheney now faces a Trump-backed challenge in Wyoming, which will hold its primary in August. She has set personal fundraising records ahead of the race, in part thanks to her role on the committee, but political strategists have said she'll likely need some votes from Democrats and independents to win. She broke with most other Republicans after the insurrection, voting for Trump's impeachment and declaring that he "lit the flame" that ignited the attack.

Former President Donald Trump's team not only pressured GOP state officials to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election he lost, but they knew ...

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Nearly 4 in 10 registered voters say they watched at least part of last week's daytime hearings held by the House select committee investigating the Jan.

See All We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. See all Video See All See all Hill.TV Nearly 20 million Americans watched the first hearing across broadcast and cable networks.

The committee spent its fourth hearing examining Trump's effort to overturn the results of the election by pressuring state election officials and ...

He should appear before this committee, and we are working to secure his testimony." "Today and in our coming hearings, you will hear testimony from other Trump White House staff explaining what Mr. Cipollone said and did, including on January 6," Cheney said. Indeed, our evidence shows that Mr. Cipollone and his office tried to do what was right. He recounted an argument between a neighbor and a man with a pistol, and also talked about the reactions of his family. I've lost my sense of security, all because a group of people, starting with number 45" — a reference to Trump — "and his ally Rudy Giuliani decided to scapegoat me and my daughter, Shaye, to push their own lies about how the presidential election was stolen," Freeman said. That's what I decided to do, and now people are lying and spreading rumors and lies and attacking my mom," she said, adding that "I felt bad for my mom, and I felt horrible for picking this job and being the one that always wants to help and always there. "So it was disturbing." Moss, who is Black, recalled that one message read, "Be glad it's 2020 and not 1920." And my son has passed, and she's a widow, and has two kids. Johnson told CBS News' Robert Costa, via text, that the "answer is NO," in response to a question about whether he ever contacted Pence personally about electors. I just felt like it was my fault for putting my family in this situation." The Vice President's office said not to give it to him and we did not.

The testimony at the hearing "will demonstrate that President Trump and his allies drove a pressure campaign based on lies" that put state and local election ...

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Former White House attorney and Trump impeachment defense Eric Herschmann has a Rob Pruitt panda painting behind him in the January 6 House hearings.

I wanted to implicate the viewer in the story and elicit guilt, like every painting of Jesus on the cross.” The work is also featured in the 50 Shades of Grey movie. The animal is a career fascination for Pruitt, who told Artforum in 2004, “The tragedy of the pandas is like a fable. An attorney who worked in the White House during Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the election, Herschmann was deposed by committee staff earlier this year on-camera while seated in front of several works of art in what appears to be his home or office.

Rep. Bennie Thompson said they had to consider new footage of the Trump family, documents from the National Archives and tips they had received during ...

Thompson said the panel’s hearings would likely resume “after the recess.” He described Holder’s footage as “important” but declined to elaborate. Rep. Bennie Thompson said they had to consider new footage of the Trump family, documents from the National Archives and tips they had received during previous hearings.

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is extending the timetable for its public hearings into July.

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The House Jan. 6 committee alleged that former President Donald Trump tried to pressure state officials to reject the results of the 2020 election.

But the panel has not ruled out adding even more hearings down the road. Following tomorrow's hearing, we will be holding additional hearings in the coming weeks. We will announce dates and times for those hearings soon," the spokesperson said.

The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill insurrection is preparing to delay its next round of hearings into July, the committee's ...

The schedule is still very fluid and is subject to change, but a round of hearings in July is the current goal. We will announce dates and times for those hearings soon." Thompson said he has reviewed some of the footage Holder provided to the committee, and characterized it as "important."

The next hearing, on how Trump pressured the DOJ to aid his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Biden, is still scheduled for Thursday.

The panel's vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said earlier this month that those final two hearings would take place in June. The investigators also continue to seek cooperation from key witnesses, including former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Thompson suggested that new evidence prompted the committee to revise its schedule.

A majority of Americans tuned out on the House select committee hearings on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot last week, a new poll released Wednesday found.

And 37% say they heard “a lot” or “some” about Trump lawyer John Eastman seeking a presidential pardon for his role in the election fraud claims, while 63% say they heard “not much” or “nothing at all.” Thirty-eight percent say they heard “a lot” or “some” about Republican Judge Michael Luttig’s testimony that Trump and his allies remain a “clear and present danger to American democracy” while 21% say they have heard “not much” and 41% say they’ve heard “nothing at all” about it. Among the 58% who say they heard about the hearings on June 13 and June 16 are 23% who say they heard “a lot” and 35% who say “some” — 42% were split evenly among “not much” or “nothing at all.”