Jan. 6 hearings

The January 6 committee plans to show at its hearing Tuesday how right-wing extremist groups including the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers prepared to attack ...

That doesn't mean that there won't be additional changes to the panel's plans, of course. The committee aides also said that meeting on December 18 is of high interest to the panel's investigation. The House select committee's schedule remains fluid. Committee aides cited two Trump associates, Stone and Flynn, ahead of Tuesday's hearing. That hearing next week is likely to focus on what was happening inside the White House as the attack on the Capitol unfolded, which January 6 committee members have alleged was Trump's "dereliction of duty" when he failed to respond to the insurrection. Committee aides confirmed that Tuesday's hearing was the only one the committee planned to hold this week, while saying that another hearing was likely to be held next week. Tuesday's hearing will be led by two Democrats on the panel: Reps. Stephanie Murphy of Florida and Jamie Raskin of Maryland. While the committee has held six hearings so far, Tuesday will be the first chance for both members to have a substantive role in the committee hearings, as the panel has divided up the topics for each hearing, limiting how many committee members have spoken. Committee aides said that the committee would focus once again Tuesday on the role that Republican members of Congress played in the lead-up to January 6. After receiving a subpoena, Cipollone did just that on Friday -- and his testimony is expected to become part of the committee's public hearings on Tuesday, as members of the committee predicted over the weekend. Aides said that the hearing would further explore how members of Congress helped Trump in the days leading up to January 6 with "last-ditch efforts to overturn the election result and stop the transfer of power." Committee aides said that the hearing would connect Trump's multiple pressure campaigns to try to overturn his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden to the violence at the Capitol on January 6, which was led by the extremist groups that will be a focus of the hearing. That thread is likely to be a key focus of Tuesday's hearing, as the committee had tried to frame every hearing around Trump's role.

The Jan. 6 committee hearing on Tuesday will focus on the role of violent extremists attacking the U.S. Capitol and President Donald Trump's involvement in ...

Five people died on that day or in the immediate aftermath, and 140 police officers were assaulted. The sixth hearing featured explosive testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide. The riot: On Jan. 6, 2021, a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 election results. Congressional hearings: The House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol has conducted a series of hearings to share its findings with the U.S. public. The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection held a series of high-profile hearings in June. The committee’s next public hearing is scheduled for July 12. The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection is poised to hold its seventh hearing of the summer, this one probing how President Donald Trump and his allies summoned far-right militant groups to Washington ahead of the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Testimony that Trump hurled a plate at a wall and stained it with ketchup stuck with viewers of the hearings for good reason.

The temptation, then, is to say that the hearing where Hutchinson testified was only the sixth hearing of this particular committee, and therefore, there’s plenty of time for the hearings to reach a wider audience. I am under no illusions that anything will happen to make Trump suffer actual consequences for what he did, but I do think the hearings have finally exposed him for who he is, just a little bit. I’ve been reading the Trump presidency through a reality TV lens for so long that I can’t stop, even when the events being described are horrifying and sobering. His efforts ultimately failed, but the reminder of just how self-aggrandizing and destructive Trump could be may be why Hutchinson’s testimony seemed to strike such a nerve. The gap between the beginning of those hearings and Richard Nixon’s resignation was well over a year, and even in terms of his approval rating, it took several months to reach a true nadir. To plenty of people, the Trump show was one they wanted to keep watching. The idea of understanding Trump as a scheming reality show contestant, willing to do whatever it took to win, only grew as he won the Republican nomination and the presidency. Trump had so internalized how to be on television that none of his opponents seemed to be anywhere near as comfortable. With the hearings set to resume this week, the “narrative” surrounding them — at least among casual observers — increasingly has the feel of people discussing a reality show around the water cooler, too. Since Trump won’t be testifying, he misses a chance to set the narrative and define its “characters” going forward. But in the moment, as Hutchinson was testifying, what seemed to garner the greatest buzz on social media platforms was the ketchup. She also testified that Trump seemed intent on allowing heavily armed people to march on the Capitol, that he reportedly attempted to seize control of a vehicle from a Secret Service agent who wouldn’t drive him up to the Capitol, and that he was obsessed with the size of the crowd listening to his speech on that day.

"We'll show how some of these right-wing extremist groups who came to D.C. ... had ties to Trump associates."

"We continue to take in more information on a daily basis." — which became a "pivotal moment" in the planning of Jan. 6, an aide said. The Jan. 6 select committee will present evidence at its hearing on Tuesday that a tweet by former President Trump prompted pro-Trump groups to change the date they planned to converge on D.C. to Jan. 6, Axios has learned. Former President Trump said he has waived executive privilege to allow Steve Bannon to testify before the Jan. 6 committee, according to a letter he sent his former adviser on Saturday. Scoop: How the Jan. 6 committee plans to tie Trump to extremist groups The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot on Tuesday will zero in on the far-right militant groups that breached the Capitol that day — and former President Trump and his allies' ties to those groups.

The House panel is expected to explore connections that former President Donald J. Trump and his allies had with far-right groups including the Proud Boys ...

Now, through public hearings, a House select committee investigating the roots of the attack is sharing its findings about the events of that day and the monthslong campaign by Mr. Trump and his allies to overturn his defeat. Investigators have also pointed to a conversation Mr. Bannon had with Mr. Trump on Dec. 30, 2020, in which he urged him to focus his efforts on Jan. 6, the day that Congress was to make the official count of electoral votes to confirm Mr. Biden’s victory. Members of the president’s Cabinet were distressed enough by the assault on the Capitol and the president’s encouragement of the mob and refusal to intervene that they quietly discussed invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office, Ms. Hutchinson testified. And she testified that senior aides had tried in vain to persuade Mr. Trump to call off the mob, but he resisted for hours. Ms. Hutchinson said Mr. Trump knew of the threat of violence by his supporters but was unconcerned by it, since they were not targeting him; and that he sympathized with them as they chanted for the execution of Vice President Mike Pence, who had refused his entreaties to overturn the election. But the committee has repeatedly said that it needs to hear from Mr. Bannon and receive the documents it requested from him about plans to overturn the 2020 election. For months, Mr. Bannon has been perhaps the most bombastic and strident potential witness the committee has called to testify. Earlier this year, in a speech marking the first anniversary of the riot, Mr. Garland acknowledged, and dismissed, the criticisms. There are few members of Congress better equipped to lead such a hearing than Mr. Raskin, a third-term congressman and Harvard-educated former constitutional law professor who has spent many nights immersed in the cultural and ideological underpinnings of the extremist groups. Additionally, Mr. Stone was in a chat group called “Friends of Stone” with at least three members who are now facing charges in connection with the riot. The hearing will be the first since the explosive, surprise testimony last month by Cassidy Hutchinson, a junior-level aide in Mr. Trump’s White House who came forward to provide a damning account of the president’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021. The post sparked a chain of events, and prompted the right-wing chauvinist group the Proud Boys to begin planning for violence on Jan. 6.

This is CNBC's live blog following Tuesday's 1 p.m. ET hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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

In a "heated and profane clash" on Dec. 18, 2020, at the White House, there was a meeting that lasted over six hours. Trump tweet was a "call to action" to his supporters: Rep. Stephanie Murphy, a member of the Jan. 6 select committee, said that one of former President Trump's tweets in the lead-up to the Capitol attack was a "call to action and in some cases, as a call to arms for many of President Trump's most loyal supporters." The tweet, Raskin said, repeated the election fraud lie and claimed it was "statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 election." He continued, "Trump's purpose was to mobilize a crowd and how do you mobilize a crowd in 2020? Instead, Donald Trump issued a tweet that would galvanize his followers, unleash a political firestorm, and change the course of our history as a country," Raskin said. White House meeting with Trump and advisers described as "unhinged": Rep. Jamie Raskin referenced a meeting that took place on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, at the White House that he says has been called "unhinged," "not normal," and "the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency." The former AG said he responded, "Absolutely not, there is no probable cause and I'm not going to seize any machines." This tweet marked a turning point in the chatter, the former Twitter employee said. Former White House counsel told committee Trump should've conceded election: Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, in the first aired footage of the 8-hour interview he had with members of the Jan. 6 select committee, said he agreed with other Trump officials that there was not sufficient evidence of election fraud. Yes I did,” he said in video footage shown in the hearing. This, of course, is nonsense," Cheney said, adding that Trump is a 76-year-old man and "not an impressionable child." "All the red flags went up at that point.

How are the Jan. 6 hearings affecting the electorate — and specifically the Republican base's willingness to renominate DONALD TRUMP in 2024? Two polls provide ...

… By delivering one of the first major union endorsements to Bill Clinton in 1992, Mr. McEntee was credited with helping the Arkansas governor win the Democratic nomination and ultimately the presidency.” TRANSITIONS — Stewart Jeffries has launched the government affairs firm Jeffries Strategies. He previously oversaw Google’s House and Senate GOP outreach, and is a House Judiciary alum. OUT AND ABOUT — Everytown, Moms Demand Action, Giffords, Brady, the Community Justice Action Fund and March For Our Lives co-hosted an event at Succotash on Monday night to celebrate federal progress on preventing gun violence. THE VIEW FROM WASHINGTON — The U.S. and Western allies are grappling with how much to satisfy Ukrainian pleas for more and faster military aid, NYT’s Eric Schmitt and Julian Barnes report. HOT ON THE LEFT — After a liberal backlash over a Biden administration deal to tap conservative CHAD MEREDITH for a Kentucky judgeship, the admin is nonetheless moving forward with plans for the nomination, HuffPost’s Jennifer Bendery reports. — Morning Consult’s Eli Yokley has a more upbeat take for Trump (and more downbeat for the committee) from the latest polling with POLITICO: Only about a third of voters have taken in “a lot” of information about the shocking Hutchinson testimony, and “the panel’s recent hearings have done little to shift public opinion about Trump’s culpability.” This poll finds a slightly higher percentage of the GOP — 54% — supporting Trump in a 2024 primary. INFLATION NATION — In the latest bit of pre-spinning, the NEC today laid out its anticipated response to Wednesday’s consumer price index report, which is expected to show painfully high inflation. VP KAMALA HARRIS will announce the moves in a virtual speech to the region today. That’s a 28% jump from the first half of 2021. “That leaves Mr. DeSantis in an unfamiliar position: on the sidelines on a major cultural-political issue.” WAR REPORT — Quite the Middle East welcome for Biden: The U.S. killed MAHER AL-AGAL, the Islamic State’s head in Syria, and injured a second official in a drone strike today, U.S. Central Command said. Bender frames it as Trump losing steam among the GOP electorate, as voters under 35 and/or with college degrees in particular seek an alternative to renominating the former president.

As dozens of lawsuits and false claims of voter fraud fizzled, Trump tweeted the rally invitation, a pivotal moment, the committee said. The far-right Proud ...

He admitted that on Jan. 2, 2021, he posted an image stating that Trump was “calling on us to come back to Washington on January 6th for a big protest." Over the past month, the panel has created a stark narrative of a defeated Trump “detached from reality,” clinging to his false claims of voter fraud and working feverishly to reverse his election defeat. The Oath Keepers have denied there was any plan to storm the Capitol. The panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol siege convenes Tuesday for a public hearing probing what it calls the final phase of Trump's multi-pronged effort to halt Joe Biden's victory. The far-right Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and others now facing criminal charges readily answered. “We will lay out the body of evidence that we have that talks about how the president’s tweet on the wee hours of December 19th of ‘Be there, be wild,’ was a siren call to these folks,” said one panel member, Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., over the weekend on “Meet the Press.” In fact, Trump tweeted, "Be there, will be wild!”

The former president catches clips on cable news or is filled in on specific pieces of testimony by other people. That's a reversal from his presidency, ...

Some have pointed to the unflattering videotaped testimony delivered by some Trump advisers, which has been played at the hearings. In one, she said that she had been “affected” by former Attorney General William P. Barr disputing Mr. Trump’s claims of widespread fraud. That has included clips of his oldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, that the committee played from its several hours interviewing her behind closed doors. He also does not compulsively watch the hearings later, the aides said — a reversal from his time as president, when he often consumed television shows that aired earlier in the day. Mr. Trump’s decision not to tune in has created room for some of those close to Mr. Trump to further their influence with him. Mr. Trump has complained about the lack of allies on the committee, which was the result of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy walking away when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rebuffed two of his choices to serve on it.

The panel has called another hearing to explore the roles extremist groups played in the formation of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

You want to know what is really going on these days, especially in Colorado. We can help you keep up. Watch the third hearing here Watch the second hearing here The ongoing series of hearings began with a prime-time opener June 9. Watch the first hearing here The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been going public with its findings in a series of hearings.

The Jan. 6 committee presented testimony that showed how former President Donald Trump's Dec. 18 tweet mobilized his supporters for Jan. 6.

Van Tatenhove was a spokesperson for the Oath Keepers from 2014 to 2017, and he has since had no affiliation with the group. The attack, extremists, Trump: Jan. 6 hearing to focus on Trump mob. Now, Trump’s allies and former members of his administration agree the committee has turned up several truths. “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” Trump tweeted at the time. Trump had considered Powell for the position of special counsel, according to the panel. “The strategy is to blame people his advisers called ‘the crazies’ for what Donald Trump did,” said Cheney, R-Wyo. “This, of course, is nonsense. “It was not a casual meeting,” said Derek Lyons, a former White House staff secretary. Trump was notified the morning of Jan. 6 that members of the crowd were carrying rifles and pistols, and he directed the crowd to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. The Justice Department charged nearly 800 people after the siege at the Capitol, including seditious conspiracy charges against at least11 members of the Oath Keepersand f ive members of the Proud Boys. “We had not seen that sort of direct communication before, and that concerned me.” He has also been charged with obstruction of justice for attempting to stop the certification of electors. The Jan. 6 committee has outlined the plan, invented by former Trump lawyer John Eastman, over a series of hearings. “It’s all converging and now we’re on, as they say, the point of attack,” Bannon said.

Extremist groups united in encrypted chats leading up to the riot, where they shared maps of the Capitol and locations of police, according to the January 6 ...

Another chat called the "Ministry of Self-Defense" allegedly involved extremist groups sharing maps of the Capitol ahead of the January 6 riot, along with locations of police, though the committee did not suggest that Stone was a member. Extremist groups came together to discuss plans for January 6 using several encrypted chats, according to the committee, including one called "Friends of Stone" that included Stone along with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes. Longtime Trump ally and political advisor Roger Stone discussed security plans with an indicted member of the Oath Keepers the day before the January 6 riot, according to the House committee investigating the event, which also alleged extremist groups unified in encrypted chats to plan actions on that day.

Witness declined phone call, Liz Cheney says, and panel 'will take any efforts to influence witness testimony very seriously'

March to the Capitol after. They’re a violent militia,” Van Tatenhove told the January 6 committee. Stop the Steal!!” “Basically, when President Trump put his tweet out, we literally left right after that come out,” Ayres said. (That is, of course, a baseless lie.) Trump refused to do so for hours. And others felt it was their obligation as well,” Cipollone said. “Who knows? John Bolton, the former national security advisor, had an interesting reaction to today’s revelations. I’d sort of had it with him so I yelled back, ‘Either come over or sit your effing ass back down.’” “American carnage: that’s Donald Trump’s true legacy. In testimony to the House January 6 committee played at the hearing, Giuliani said that at the meeting he had called the White House lawyers and aides who disagreed with that plan “a bunch of pussies”.

In its seventh public hearing, the Jan. 6 committee investigating the insurrection zeroed in on the connection between Trump and extremist groups as the mob ...

- Adam Kinzinger: Kinzinger of Illinois broke with his party by accepting the appointment from Pelosi. Kinzinger, once thought to have a bright future in GOP politics, has taken heavy criticism from his colleagues because of his criticism of Trump. He has placed much of the blame of inciting the violence that day on Trump and his allies. She has even gone as far to say that Trump's inaction to intervene as the attack unfolded was a "dereliction of duty." House Republicans have punished her for her public opposition to Trump by removing her as their party's conference chair in May of last year and she faces a Trump-endorsed challengerin the GOP primary in her reelection bid. She is a long-time ally and friend to Pelosi. The duo has served in the California Congressional delegation together for close to three decades and both represent different parts of the bay area in Northern California. - Rep. Jamie Raskin: Raskin is a Democrat from Maryland who previously served as the lead impeachment manager for Democrats during Trump's second impeachment trial. Of the nine members of the committee, Luria is facing the toughest general election in the fall midterms. "January 6 will be remembered as one of the darkest days in our nation's history. In addition to his role on the Jan. 6 committee, Aguilar has several high-profile committee assignments. - Rep. Pete Aguilar: Aguilar is a Democrat from Southern California. Before coming to Congress, he served as the mayor of Redlands, California. Aguilar is considered a rising star in the House Democratic Caucus. As vice chair of the House Democratic Caucus he is the highest-ranking Latino member in congressional leadership. Thompson views the work of the Jan. 6 committee in the same vein as his work in the civil rights struggle. Rep. Liz Cheney is one of two Republicans on the panel appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, after House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pulled all five of his selections because Pelosi would not accept two of his picks. As chair of the Homeland Security panel, Thompson introduced and oversaw the House's passage of the legislative recommendations after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

On Tuesday, the Jan. 6 committee held another hearing in which it attempted to tie former president Donald Trump to the most violent extremists leading the ...