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 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.

It comes as lawmakers on the committee seek to add to their narrative that Trump is at fault for the riot that forced hundreds of lawmakers into hiding and ...

The far-right Proud Boys and Oath Keepers groups, the aide said, will be central to the hearing, a committee aide said. Another hearing is expected next week though the details on that one are not yet clear. Meanwhile, the committee is also considering a recent offer to testify from former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who faces an upcoming trial on contempt of Congress charges. Tuesday's hearing, a committee aide said, will aim to connect the dots showing Trump was the catalyst that brought the mob to Washington, D.C. He told FOX31 that he "purged my life of that world years ago." FOX31 in Denver spoke with Van Tatenhove earlier this month about his planned appearance before the committee.

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.

Today's Jan. 6 hearing will reexamine the mob that stormed the capitol, a committee member told Face The Nation. Here is how and where to watch.

After a two-week pause, the Jan. 6 committee is resuming its public hearings this week. Jan. 6 committee hearing schedule: Here's when to expect next hearings on the Capitol riot Cable TV networks such as CNN, ABC News, MSNBC have also aired previous hearings. This week’s first hearing is slated for today. Where to watch the next Jan. 6 hearing What time is the next Jan. 6 hearing?

"He was the White House counsel at the time. He was aware of every major move I think Donald Trump was making to try to overthrow the 2020 election and ...

The House Jan. 6 committee has held seven public hearings in June and July to showcase the evidence they have gathered during the 11-month investigation. Bannon has cited executive privilege in his refusal to testify, but Trump sent a letter to Bannon's lawyers waiving executive privilege. On June 28, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified publicly in a hastily added hearing. "He was the White House counsel at the time. Raskin said in the middle of the night on Dec. 19, Trump sent a tweet "after a crazy meeting, one that has been described as the craziest meeting in the entire Trump presidency." "Donald Trump sent out the tweet that would be heard around the world, the first time in American history when a president of the United States called a protest against his own government, in fact, to try to stop the counting of electoral college votes in a presidential election he had lost," Raskin said. Documentary filmmaker Nick Quested, who was embedded with the Proud Boys on Jan. 6, has provided footage from his film to the committee, some of which was shown at the first public hearing on June 9. But against this 'Team Crazy' were an inside group of lawyers who essentially wanted the president at that point to acknowledge that he had lost the election, and were far more willing to accept the reality of his defeat at that point." Last week, Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone testified before the committee for more than eight hours. "And so, some of the people involved in that were Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani was around for part of that discussion, Michael Flynn was around for that. He and Rep. Stephanie Murphy, a Democrat from Florida, will play leading roles in the proceedings. Posted just before 2 a.m., the then-president teased in the tweet a "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th.

"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.

Today's Jan. 6 panel will focus on the role of extremists in the attack, first images from the Webb telescope show thousands of galaxies: 5 Things podcast.

Only about half of the people polled think having a college education or having more people college educated could improve the economy or the nation's democracy, but at the same time, that's about half of people who don't feel that way. But also at the same time, there's a desire to make college more affordable and make it such that more people can go. But at the same time, there's a lot of skepticism towards the value of the degree. The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday issued guidance to hospitals and doctors, reminding them of obligations to perform abortions and emergencies, regardless of state laws. And most experts that I talked to think that political pressure is unlikely to make such a thing happen. So in its biggest impact here, the court could say, all of these entities cannot act as a check on the state legislature when it comes to things like voting hours, early voting, absentee ballots and how those get cast, redistricting, and also by the way, which a slate of electors get sent to the electoral college for electing the president. And that includes the governor, which in most other instances, the governor would sign a law passed by the state legislature. And what conservatives say is like, "Look, you can't do that because the law is the law, and courts can't just interpret words out of the law." In the 2020 election, there were a bunch of state courts that weighed in to sort of change the rules in response to COVID. And they did things, most notably in Pennsylvania, like saying that if your absentee ballot was postmarked by Election Day, it'd be okay if it took three or four extra days to get to the clerk's office. - And the father of a teenager killed in the 2018 Parkland shooting interrupted President Joe Biden yesterday during an event at the White House marking new gun legislation. Plus, the Supreme Court could make a huge decision on elections this fall, and more. Plus, Supreme Court correspondent John Fritze looks at an upcoming case that could upend election laws, health officials tell hospitals they must perform abortions in emergencies, education reporter Chris Quintana looks at the cost of college and a space telescope brings back unprecedented images from the cosmos.

The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack will present its seventh day of live presentations on Tuesday. The panel is due to deliver its ...

tweet sent in the early hours of December 19, 2020 urging his supporters to attend the election protest on January 6 was seen as an invitation by the militia groups. Trump had frequently been accused of emboldening the far-right during his presidency. Neither Stone nor Flynn has been charged or accused of any crime in connection with the January 6 attack. Cipollone, seen as one of the key witnesses in the January 6 investigation, frequently pushed backed at Trump's attempts to overturn the election, and is said to have expressed concerns to Hutchinson that if the former president marched to the Capitol the administration would be "charged with every crime imaginable." It is reported that Jason Van Tatenhove, a former spokesperson of the Oath Keepers, will talk under oath to the panel on Tuesday. The hearing will focus on how far-right groups including the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers planned to storm the Capitol on January 6, as well as their reported links to Trump's inner circle.

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.

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”.

The latest hearing from the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection fleshed out the links between former President Donald ...

This strong level of cooperation from Trump insiders made it possible for the panel to bring these details to light. Stephen Ayers, a convicted Capitol rioter who breached the building on January 6, returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday as a cooperating witness. He added that he no longer believes Trump's lies about the 2020 election, but warned that there are millions of people who still do, which poses a threat for future elections. The tweet claimed that it was "statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election," and said there would be a "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th." The committee played 14 clips from Cipollone's pivotal eight-hour interview last week, which highlighted the split that had grown between Trump and his highest-ranking legal adviser. And when that doesn't happen -- most likely will not happen -- they are going to go nuts," Lesko said. The committee showed a draft tweet -- which Trump did not send -- calling for marching to the Capitol. "I will be making a Big Speech at 10AM on January 6th at the Ellipse (South of the White House). Please arrive early, massive crowds expected. The audio was obtained by New York Times journalists Alex Burns and Jonathan Martin from their book "This Will Not Pass" and aired on CNN last month. Alexander, another organizer, sent a text message on January 5, 2021, that was obtained by the committee: "Tomorrow: Ellipse then US capitol. In addition, the panel provided new evidence showing how multiple members of Congress sought pardons from Trump after January 6. "Stop the Steal" leader Ali Alexander quickly registered the website WildProtest.com and used the site as a clearinghouse for information about the protest. The tweet, which the committee obtained from the National Archives, includes a stamp saying "President has seen."

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 ...

'Unhinged' December 2020 meeting saw outside advisers to Trump shouting insults at officials, according to testimony.

But the idea that the federal government come in and seize election machines and all that.” He said: “I opened the door and walked in. That was my view.” That happens all the time. When you got – people walk in, it was late at night, it’s been a long day, and what they were proposing I thought was nuts.” I’d sort of had it with him so I yelled back, ‘Either come over or sit your effing ass back down.’”

The seventh Jan. 6 hearing focused on right-wing extremist groups who stormed the Capitol. Follow Newsweek for the latest updates.

A majority of the respondents—59 percent—told pollsters they believe Trump was "very responsible" or "somewhat responsible" for the events leading up to the riot at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021. He knows you're loyal, and you're going to do the right thing when you go in for your deposition." "Non-aligned groups were aligning," he told the Committee in a previously recorded testimony. He said they were in a military formation as they ascended the steps of the Capitol. He said he followed Trump on all social media platforms and believed the 2020 presidential election was stolen. "He said in his speech that he was coming there with us." He referenced the "iconic images" of the day, specifically pointing to the gallows that were allegedly intended for former Vice President Mike Pence. Stephen Ayres said he did not plan to enter the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. "A President that's willing to try to instill and encourage, whip up a civil war amongst his followers using lies and deceit and snake oil, and regardless of the human impact—what else is he going to do if he gets elected again? He later pointed to the rhetoric Trump had used earlier in the day, writing, "If I was trump and knew my rhetoric killed someone." He would not order them to evacuate the Capitol and disperse." "He would not instruct the mob to leave or condemn the violence.

Former President Donald Trump placed a call to one of the January 6 committee's witnesses following its June 28 hearing, vice-chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) ...

An anonymous witness told the committee prior to the hearing that Trump's team reached out to ensure they were "protecting who I need to protect." Cheney said at the end of the June 28 hearing that the committee obtained evidence suggesting Trump's team may have tried to tamper with witness testimony, which is a crime. "Let me say one more time: we will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously," Cheney said in her closing statement at the conclusion of Tuesday's hearing.

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

The most vivid of Hutchinson's statements was about Trump, angrily realizing he would not be taken to the Capitol on Jan. 6, trying to grab the wheel of the presidential vehicle from a Secret Service agent. Trump was warned about violence: Hutchinson said Trump was personally aware of the potential for violence, yet forged ahead on Jan. 6 with his attempts to rile up his supporters. 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. It suggests what the President was told, and what he was doing and not doing on Jan. 6 during those 187 minutes. 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 challenger in 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. Of the nine members of the committee, Luria is facing the toughest general election in the fall midterms. He also is connected to Ivan Raiklin, who the committee has already introduced as someone who has encouraged members of the Trump team to play the “Pence Card” — meaning pressuring former Vice President Mike Pence to stand in the way of the election certification. In addition to his role on the Jan. 6 committee, Aguilar has several high-profile committee assignments. This meeting will shed new light on the timeline of events leading up to the insurrection. Flynn spoke to the committee, and portions of his deposition are expected today.

Former President Donald Trump called a witness in the Jan. 6 committee probe after the panel's last hearing, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said Tuesday.

He did not call the military. During the sixth hearing on June 28 when former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified, the committee showed excerpts of statements from witnesses alleging that they had been contacted by someone who tried to influence their testimony. "That person declined to answer or respond to President Trump’s call, and instead alerted their lawyer to the call.

Read the full transcript from the July 12 House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack hearing.

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The January 6 Committee hearing this afternoon, the seventh public meeting, ended with a dramatic revelation. Vice Chair Liz Cheney said former President Trump ...

There is the potential for more hearings, and it's going to be focused specifically on the 187 minutes of when President Trump was not putting out any statements as the insurrection was ongoing. Now, that's because that would potentially prove that the president was trying to stop the lawful certification of the 2020 vote. But the committee asked him exactly why he did what he did on January 6, and here's what he said. Now, one important piece of context here, as the hearings are happening, as these talk of potential charges against the former president, is that President Trump just as recently as June said that he would, if elected again, pardon these January 6 rioters, people involved in the insurrection, because he believes that they are patriots. Another note, Judy, this was actually an emotional day, I think, for some of the Capitol Police officers who were in there today. I was not happy to see the people in the Oval Office. Steve Bannon, the president's adviser, longtime adviser, was on the phone with the president, they said White House call logs showed, the morning of January 5. There, you see video that we saw in the hearing today. Let's listen to how they played it out in the hearing today. It was all about whether and how to overturn the election. That began weeks earlier in a mid-December White House meeting that one former aide called unhinged, as allies of then-President Trump repeated baseless claims about election fraud and urged action to overturn the results. And there you also see four other — three other people, including Michael Flynn, former security adviser, but then he did not have a position in the White House.

Panel Vice Chair Liz Cheney said the witness has yet to appear in the hearings and didn't take the call from the former president but alerted their lawyer, ...

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The committee showed video clips and text messages to demonstrate how far-right groups were emboldened by Trump's false claims about the 2020 election.

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A video deposition from Rudy Giuliani is shown as the Jan. 6 committee holds a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. J. Scott ...

Dupree responded that the “people giving him this advice were coming pretty darn close to that line, if not going over it.” Neil Cavuto referred to Trump as “unstable” before asking former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Tom Dupree if the people close to Trump were engaging in “illegal, criminal behavior” by pushing to keep him in office. "You're in the Oval Office and people seem to be actually chest pounding.

The panel, which includes two Republicans, has been investigating the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, for about a year and has been holding a series of hearings ...

He did not call the military. He did not call his attorney general. He did not talk to the Department of Homeland Security. [Vice President] Mike Pence did all of those things." Separately, the Department of Justice -- which has prosecuted various cases related to Jan. 6 -- has been watching the hearings closely. He has also attacked the character of certain witnesses, many of whom are his former aides and attorneys. The panel, which includes two Republicans, has been investigating the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, for about a year and has been holding a series of hearings since early last month.

The Jan. 6 committee revealed how Trump supporters' anger built into the violence during the riot, and showed how Trump and some of his closest allies used ...

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The House Jan. 6 committee holds its seventh hearing on its months-long investigation Tuesday, focusing on the involvement of extremist groups like the Oath ...

At that hearing, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that she heard the words "Proud Boys" and "Oath Keepers" more often on the days leading up to Jan. 6 and there were intelligence reports warning of the potential for violence that week. Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, attempted to be put in contact with the White House leading up to Jan. 6, according to NBC. Both Stone and Flynn have come up at past hearings as links between Trump and the people beyond the White House wanting to keep him in power after he lost the legal 2020 presidential election. That first panel hearing featured testimony from Nick Quested, a documentary filmmaker who was following the Proud Boys in the days leading up to the insurrection. The committee showed an undated draft tweet that went unsent from Trump where he would have publicly said that there would be a march to the Capitol and a text message from rally organizer Kylie Kramer on Jan. 4 in which she told My Pillow CEO and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell that Trump would “call for it unexpectedly” but that they didn’t want word to get out so there wouldn’t be a counter march. “Now the argument seems to be that President Trump was manipulated by others outside the administration,” Cheney said. But they went ahead by January 6 anyway” and, second, Trump’s deception of Americans across the country who did not have access to the same data that he did. In response, Ayers agreed that the entire incident was “definitely planned out,” according to the FBI report. It also showed texts from two people involved in the rally to others, saying that there were plans to order protesters to march to the Capitol, but that they had to be kept under wraps. They aired testimony from Katrina Pierson, a former Trump campaign spokesperson and an organizer of the Jan. 6 rally. The word “peacefully” was in the written version and used only once, Murphy pointed out, adding that this rhetoric stoked tensions and riled up supporters even more. The hearing also looks at a Dec. 19 tweet from the former president that read: “Big protests in D.C. on January 6.

The House Jan. 6 committee focused Tuesday on what it says are clear ties between allies of former President Donald Trump and the extremist groups that led ...

“In the wee hours of Dec. 19, dissatisfied with his options, Donald Trump decided to call for a large and ‘wild’ crowd on Wednesday, Jan. 6, the day when Congress would meet to certify the electoral votes,” Raskin said. Scalia, Trump's labor secretary at the time and the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, said he had spoken to Trump on the phone at around the time the presidential electors officially cast their votes on Dec. 14, 2020. Raskin said that a December 2020 email from Bernie Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner and close ally of Rudy Giuliani, shows that they had no evidence of fraud in the lead-up to Jan. 6. Cipollone testified that "we were pushing back and we were asking one simple question as a general matter, where is the evidence?" "First, he asked Pat Cipollone if he had the authority to name me special counsel, and he said yes. “The evidence confirms that this was not a spontaneous call to action, but rather was a deliberate strategy decided upon in advance by the President.” Please," Pierson said in a text to Meadows, shown at the hearing. The person said they were "on pins and needles." But later on the morning of Jan. 6, Trump spoke by phone with Pence — a call during which, as the committee has outlined previously, was tense and heated. "And Stewart was very intrigued by that notion and influenced by it, I think, and he wanted me to create a deck of cards." “While this may come as a surprise to some, many of the true motivations of this group revolve around raising funds, and not the propaganda they push. Their lawyer alerted us, and this committee has supplied that information to the Department of Justice," Cheney said.

New evidence and testimony showed the president's tweet promoting a protest on Jan. 6 united extremist groups and led to calls for violence.

Stone, in a text message, said, “Any claim assertion or implication that I knew in advance about, was involved in or condoned any illegal act at the Capitol on Jan. 6 is categorically false.” He defended his decision to give a speech on Jan. 5 “consistent with my constitutional free-speech rights to skepticism about the anomalies and irregularities in the 2020 election. But a person familiar with Parscale’s thinking said he was angry with Trump at the time for dismissing him as campaign manager and thought the president should have commented hours before he did to tell people to leave the Capitol. The person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter, said Parscale has since made peace with Trump. The two spoke Tuesday after the texts were revealed, the person said, adding that Parscale would be involved in a prospective 2024 campaign. “Many of his supporters’ lives will never be the same.” “We went with the flow and were focused on compliance.” “And many headed towards the Capitol. As a result, people died. Some of the messages were “openly homicidal,” Raskin said, and littered with racist and genocidal rallying cries. The committee presented evidence showing that Trump’s tweet on Dec. 19 altered planning for the protest activity that would ultimately bring deadly mayhem to the Capitol. Originally, a pro-Trump group called Women for America First had been preparing for a rally after the inauguration of Joe Biden on Jan. 20. Another user said volunteers were needed “for the firing squad.” Jim Watkins, the owner of the online message board where the extremist QAnon ideology took root, told the House panel he was moved by Trump’s tweet. … every last democrat ….” Another said, “white revolution is the only solution.” A clip of new testimony from White House counsel Pat Cipollone showed he was among those pushing back on baseless conspiracy theories launched by pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and former national security adviser Michael Flynn, demanding during an extended encounter in the White House on Dec. 18, 2020, “Where is the evidence?” “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” wrote the president. She said the committee had notified the Justice Department of the episode, promising, “We will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously.”

We will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously,” Rep. Liz Cheney said.

The Jan. 6 hearing centered mostly around testimony from former Trump administration staffers and allies, including former White House Counsel Pat ...

"Their lawyer alerted us, and this committee has supplied that information to the Department of Justice." The evidence confirms that this was not a spontaneous call to action but rather was a deliberate strategy decided upon in advance by the president," Murphy concluded. The committee did note that both Roger Stone, a Republican operative close with Trump, and Flynn had ties to the Oath Keepers and used members for security on various occasions. After the contentious Oval Office meeting, Trump sent out a Twitter post at nearly 2 a.m. on Dec. 19, 2020, to his millions of followers that read: "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. The committee then aired the reaction to Trump's tweet from his supporters and right-wing media personalities. (Trump has called Hutchinson a "phony.") Ayres, who recently admitted to participating in the insurrection, said he left once Trump told rioters to go home on Jan. 6. Cipollone finally sat for a deposition last week, and clips of his testimony were aired for the first time in Tuesday's hearing. Cipollone said the group showed a "general disregard for backing what you actually say with facts." "Pres. Trump is a 76-year-old man. "President Trump is a 76-year-old man. She noted that fingers are being pointed at advisers like John Eastman or Powell as people who wielded significant influence over the president at the time.

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.

— Kevin Breuninger "He was the White House counsel at the time. — Kevin Breuninger — Kevin Breuninger — Kevin Breuninger Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the group, and some other members have been charged with seditious conspiracy in relation to the Capitol riot. — Kevin Breuninger — Kevin Breuninger

Former President Trump knew there was no evidence of widespread election fraud because people close to him told him so on multiple occasions.

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The hearing relied on testimony from Trump aides, right-wing media commentators and militia members to illustrate key events leading up to the Capitol riot.

Ms. Powell testified that she thought Mr. Trump had appointed her as a special counsel to investigate the election fraud claims. Ms. Craighead testified that Mr. Trump was saying, “We should go up to the Capitol. What’s the best route to the Capitol?” Mr. Cipollone testified that he turned to one of the advisers he did not know and asked his identity. He said that the crowd believed Mr. Trump was going to meet them at the Capitol. It wasn’t just people sitting around on a couch chitchatting,” said Derek Lyons, who was then the White House staff secretary. No — I don’t understand why I even have to tell you why that’s a bad idea,” Mr. Cipollone testified. And in many cases, the online commentary that followed what Mr. Trump’s supporters heard as a call to arms was infused with talk of violence. Relying on testimony from Trump aides, right-wing media commentators and militia members, the committee demonstrated how Mr. Trump’s public statements led his supporters to believe the election had actually been stolen and storm the Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification. “You know, he said in his speech, you know, kind of like he’s going to be there with us. The rally organizer, Kylie Kremer, wrote: “It cannot get out about the second stage because people will try and set up another and Sabotage it. “We know the rules of engagement. “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” Mr. Trump tweeted.

A woman sits at a desk behind the nameplate "Ms. Cheney." Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) during a Jan. 6 committee hearing on Tuesday in Washington, D.C..

Continuing with the timeline, the committee then showed how Trump pivoted from dead-end legal avenues to inciting the masses behind his effort to stay in power, withseveral examples of how he weaponized social media to that effect. Former Trump supporter Stephen Ayres, who was arrested after he breached the Capitol during the attack, explained how he believed it when the president told him the election was stolen — and now feels deceived. And of course Giuliani was nearby, describing White House officials who wouldn’t go along with the scheme to overturn the election as “a bunch of .…” Well, you know what he said. The gathering included Trump, Cipollone and attorney and advisor Eric Herschmann, along with Powell, QAnon convert Michael Flynn and, for some reason, the former chief executive of Overstock.com. Trump was still looking for ways to invalidate the election results; there were heated arguments and it lasted for hours. It played a role Tuesday as well, with depositions about an “unhinged” Oval Office meeting in the weeks before the riot that recounted events both shocking and laughable. In what other world but Trump’s are “the Overstock.com guy,” a disgraced general and the White House chief of staff together in anything but a punchline? This disciplined approach has allowed the hearings to shift with breaking news and new testimony as needed without losing momentum (see last month’s questioning of Cassidy Hutchinson), while also organizing the chaos around the 2020 election and its aftermath into a gripping chronology of events. Like the penultimate episode of an intense TV drama, Tuesday’s hearing opened with a “previously on ...” montage of flashbacks, advanced the narrative, then closed with a staggering cliffhanger. Remaining on track sometimes means recapping what’s come before, as was the case at the start of Tuesday’s broadcast. President Trump is a 76-year-old man. This of course is nonsense. In the final minutes of the three-hour hearing, Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) dropped the hearings’ most tantalizing bombshell yet, saying former President Trump attempted to call a committee witness, and that the committee submitted that information to the Department of Justice. Stay tuned.

As their final act nears, the House January 6 hearings have evolved from documenting a stain on history to warning of a violent and tyrannical future that ...

The panel's case is that Trump gathered the crowd, gave it a grievance with his election lies and incited its march on Congress, even with the knowledge that many of its members were armed. The Wyoming Republican's latest sharp warning sounded like a veiled suggestion to the Justice Department that Attorney General Merrick Garland should consider a criminal investigation of the former President over his actions on January 6. Arguing that political leaders who incited mobs often turned into tyrants, he posed a question for Americans as Trump is apparently about to seek a return to power. That absence of proof of intent will play into the raging debate over whether the committee has produced a case that could stand up in criminal court after any Justice Department inquiry. between the then-President and outside advisers, including lawyer Sidney Powell, that descended into a profane shouting match with West Wing officials about schemes to overthrow the election. This continuing effort to undermine American institutions and the rule of law is showing that Trump's threat to democracy didn't end in 2021. Tuesday's hearing also implicitly raised the question of why members of such extremist groups have faced justice for their actions on January 6 in multiple court cases while the former President continues to evade legal sanctions for inciting the riot. And there's no sign that the ex-President would abandon this stew of extremism in a future political campaign. And it raised the question -- especially since more mainstream members of his inner circle have now broken with him to testify -- about the caliber of people who would surround the ex-President if he succeeds in a quest to reclaim power in 2024. in December 2020 -- was not just that Trump was in the thrall of fanatics with ridiculous plans to steal the election. In the latest episode of its limited season television event, the House select committee on Tuesday traced Trump's links to and inspiration for far right-wing groups that came to Washington to help his mob smash its way into Congress in early 2021. former Oath Keepers spokesman Jason Van Tatenhove asked during testimony in which he warned that the ex-President would "whip up a civil war among his followers, using lies and deceit" if he launches another campaign for the White House in 2024.

“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” Trump wrote. “When Donald Trump sent out his tweet, he became the first president to call for a ...

He picked a fight with a colleague on the House floor that night, which nearly turned into a brawl. The committee referred it to the Justice Department as possible witness intimidation. “I was not happy to see the people who were in the Oval Office,” Cipollone said. He called the Oath Keepers “a very dangerous organization” controlled personally by Rhodes. Ayres told the panel he’d been interested in his family affairs and ordinary hobbies but was “pretty hardcore into the social media,” he said. “We literally left right when that come out,” he told the panel. “What they were proposing, I thought was nuts.” “I did not think any of these people were providing the president with good advice. Several of the lawmakers have denied doing so. Many dispersed only when Trump asked them to do so, hours after mayhem broke out. “When Donald Trump sent out his tweet, he became the first president to call for a crowd to descend on the capital city to block the constitutional transfer of power,” Raskin said. Members of the violent extremist groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and other Trump supporters interpreted a Dec. 19 tweet from Trump to attend a “wild” Jan. 6 rally in Washington as a call to arms to fight election certification, according to testimony at the wide-ranging hearing, the seventh by the panel.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack is laying out evidence that could allow prosecutors to indict former President Donald J. Trump, ...

Here are the main themes that have emerged in each hearing → Key Revelations From the Jan. 6 Hearings Key Revelations From the Jan. 6 Hearings

We watched Tuesday's Jan. 6 hearings with a Georgetown Democrat, Howard University students and a Trump documentarian to hear their reactions.

“If you have to describe what the committee is doing, it’s almost a synopsis of our film,” Holder says. “I wasn’t going to do a hatchet job or a hit piece on Donald Trump. I wanted to understand who these people were,” he says. The 33-year-old British documentarian captured important scenes of the insurrection, and he just released “Unprecedented” on Discovery Plus, a three-part film about the former president’s reelection campaign and what happened after he lost. Knowing now what it’s like to be both in front and behind the camera, he’s dressed sharp but casually, down to a pair of John Lennon sunglasses. Fittingly, he and Azevedo watch Tuesday’s hearing (well, part of it) from a luxury suite sofa at the Conrad Hotel in Lower Manhattan, where he isn’t staying, while a reporter and photographer watch them watching. “I feel like my eyes got opened to a whole new world.” — Jada Yuan There’s also a heaviness, a feeling of being witnesses to history and not in a good way. Hill, who’s wearing a T-shirt that reads “All We Ever Did Was Be Black” and “Black By Popular Demand,” may not be a tech expert, but she is a campus legend. This is a man who cheats all the time and has gotten away with it.” “It’s like watching ‘Dateline’! Fact, fact, fact!” Hill says. “Win or lose, you’re a good sport – and you don’t cheat,” she explains. Ellen Charles is watching Tuesday’s hearing surrounded by an audience of four: Hazel, a toy poodle and the alpha dog; Harry, a champion standard poodle; Porter, another standard poodle; and Cashew, a toy poodle and Hazel’s son.

Former Trump White House advisor Steven Bannon previously lost a bid to delay his contempt trial, which relates to Jan. 6 Capitol riot panel subpoenas.

"All converging and now we're on, as they say, the point of attack. And all I can say is strap in." "All hell is going to break loose tomorrow," Bannon said on that video. Right? The point of attack tomorrow. Bannon's lawyers also said in a court filing Wednesday that "the defense learned just today" that CNN will air a one-hour documentary on Bannon on Sunday evening, the day before his trial for contempt of Congress is set to begin in Washington, D.C. - Lawyers also said they learned that CNN will air a one-hour documentary on Bannon on Sunday evening, the day before his trial is set to begin in Washington, D.C., for contempt of Congress.

At every hearing, the panel has played video testimony from White House aides and Trump associates who said they told Trump that Biden won the election and ...

On Tuesday, the committee revealed more evidence that Trump had planned to call for his supporters to march to the Capitol, and that he would go with them. The committee has focused in particular on Trump’s efforts to go to the Capitol with his supporters after his speech. But Jacob said that as he and Pence reviewed the constitution, the law, “and frankly just common sense,” they confirmed that Pence did not have that authority. At a hearing with state officials, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, told of Trump’s phone call in which he asked him to “find 11,780 votes” that could give him a win. “This stays only between us, we are having a second stage at the Supreme Court” after Trump’s rally, wrote one of the rally’s organizers, Kylie Kremer, to a Trump confidant. The committee is planning to hold its eighth hearing next week. That could come before the November midterm election, said the committee’s chairman, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, in an interview on Tuesday. Stephen Ayres, who broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6 and pleaded guilty last month to a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct, testified in person at Tuesday’s hearing. At a hearing last month, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Trump knew that some of his supporters gathered for the event were armed because they had been turned away at security checkpoints. The committee showed a montage of videos and social media posts after the tweet as supporters reacted and planned trips to Washington, some of them using violent rhetoric and talking about killing police officers. Eugene Scalia, Trump’s labor secretary, said he told Trump it was time for him to say Biden had won after states certified the electors on Dec. 14. Many were emboldened by former Attorney General Bill Barr’s declaration in early December 2020 that there was no evidence of mass fraud that could change the election outcome.

Testimony on Tuesday showed that the criterion at issue for Donald Trump was power. The law, evidence and truth were beside the point.

They were selling Trump a path to retention of power, and Trump was investing them with the authority to carry out their plans, which became his plans. Team Crazy and the likes of Stewart Rhodes deserve our contempt. The dramatic centerpiece of the hearing was a meeting in the White House on Dec. 18, 2020. They arrived at the rally at the Ellipse on Jan. 6, where Trump played out one more scene that is highly probative for prosecutors. But as we’ve heard from the committee, Meadows was something between a cipher and a co-conspirator by December of that year. (I prosecuted some of them when I was the U.S. attorney in western Pennsylvania.) Typically they are a ragtag bunch posturing to one another under the whip hand of a charismatic leader, like Stewart Rhodes — as Tuesday’s hearing revealed. At the same time, he was divesting advisors such as Cipollone and U.S. Atty. Gen. William Barr of power. Details such as the law, evidence and truth were beside the point. Outsiders don’t just wander into the Oval Office and, unscheduled, get a sit-down with the leader of the free world. You have to show strength.” Shouting, screaming, profanity and even an overture to fisticuffs. (Said Powell in her taped testimony: “I bet Pat Cipollone set a land speed record.”)

Aymann Ismail: Yesterday's hearing set out to connect Trump with the extremist groups that sacked the Capitol. Do you think the panel succeeded in doing so?

I treat a lot of the stuff with a grain of salt. And I think there are some who want to see true acceleration, true anarchy and chaos in the United States. They think that incidents like Jan. 6 are exactly the kind of touch point that their movement needs to advance that goal. They’re going to learn from these mistakes and they’re likely going to be a lot more surreptitious in the way that they organize now that they see the consequences are real. You see some gloating, some veiled threats and some more explicit threats saying this is just the beginning. Some of my colleagues monitor it on the daily. I’d say a lot of the folks saying these things are a bit unhinged. The immediate impact has been that they’re a lot more quiet and more careful. That’s the dark underbelly of geopolitics in the modern era. Although most of the rioters there that day were not affiliated with any particular extremist group, this small sect operated with chilling efficiency, and it was clear they knew what they were there to do. There’s a professor at the University of Albany named Sam Jackson who wrote a book about the Oath Keepers. Everything Jackson has said about the Oath Keepers we know to be true, it’s really good research. And then the usual kind of conspiracy stuff, basically saying this is all an Antifa plot. Testimony came from a former Oath Keeper and an unaffiliated rioter on how the attack unfolded.

At every hearing, the panel has played video testimony from White House aides and Trump associates who said they told Trump that Biden won the election and ...

On Tuesday, the committee revealed more evidence that Trump had planned to call for his supporters to march to the Capitol, and that he would go with them. The committee has focused in particular on Trump’s efforts to go to the Capitol with his supporters after his speech. But Jacob said that as he and Pence reviewed the constitution, the law, “and frankly just common sense,” they confirmed that Pence did not have that authority. At a hearing with state officials, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, told of Trump’s phone call in which he asked him to “find 11,780 votes” that could give him a win. “This stays only between us, we are having a second stage at the Supreme Court” after Trump’s rally, wrote one of the rally’s organizers, Kylie Kremer, to a Trump confidant. That could come before the November midterm election, said the committee’s chairman, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, in an interview on Tuesday. The committee is planning to hold its eighth hearing next week. Stephen Ayres, who broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6 and pleaded guilty last month to a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct, testified in person at Tuesday’s hearing. At a hearing last month, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Trump knew that some of his supporters gathered for the event were armed because they had been turned away at security checkpoints. The committee showed a montage of videos and social media posts after the tweet as supporters reacted and planned trips to Washington, some of them using violent rhetoric and talking about killing police officers. Eugene Scalia, Trump’s labor secretary, said he told Trump it was time for him to say Biden had won after states certified the electors on Dec. 14. Many were emboldened by former Attorney General Bill Barr’s declaration in early December 2020 that there was no evidence of mass fraud that could change the election outcome.