The January 6th Hearings: The House Investigates

A look at highlights from the January 6th hearings. From false claims of election fraud to the pressure campaign against Vice President Pence, the Select Committee explores the origins of the January 6th attack, as well as key moments from that day. In this hour-long program, witnesses tell the story of what they saw and heard, including members of Trump’s inner circle.

 

Jan. 6 Committee Presents Final Key Evidence of Trump & Republican’s Plot to Overturn the 2020 Election – Dec 19, 2022

 

Jan. 6 House Hearings | Day 1

 

Jan. 6 House Hearings | Day 2

Jan. 6 committee investigating the U.S. Capitol attack holds second day of testimony — 6/13/22

A bipartisan House select committee on Monday begins detailing the initial findings from its investigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, keeping its focus squarely on former President Donald Trump.

The second hearing will center on the push by Trump and his allies to spread false claims of sweeping election fraud following the then-president’s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 contest. The committee said it will demonstrate that Trump knew he lost the race, but nevertheless worked to falsely convince “huge portions of the U.S. population that fraud had stolen the election from him,” Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said last week.

Witnesses will testify on two panels during Monday’s hearing. The first will feature Chris Stirewalt, the former Fox News political editor who came under fire from Trump’s supporters after Fox called Arizona for Biden before other outlets on Election Day 2020.

Former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien was slated to speak, as well — but less than an hour before the hearing was set to start at 10 a.m. ET, the committee announced that Stepien would not attend “due to a family emergency.”

Stepien’s lawyer will appear and make a statement on his behalf, the committee said, adding that the event would be delayed by about 30 to 45 minutes as a result. Stepien is reportedly currently advising Cheney’s Trump-endorsed Republican primary challenger Harriet Hageman.

The second panel is set to include testimony from election attorney Benjamin Ginsberg, former Philadelphia city commissioner Al Schmidt and BJay Pak, former U.S. attorney for the northern district of Georgia.

 

Jan. 6 House Hearings | Day 3

Jan. 6 investigators detail how Trump pressured Pence to overturn 2020 election — 6/16/22

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot on Thursday details how former President Donald Trump pressured then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject the 2020 election results —and how that contributed to the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a violent mob of Trump supporters.

The committee’s presentation marks the third public hearing laying out the initial findings from its nearly year-long investigation into the Capitol riot. The panel has accused Trump of leading a multi-pronged conspiracy to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 contest.

 

January 6 Committee Hearings – Day 4

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol committee holds its fourth public hearing, this time focused on President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign against state election officials to overturn the election results.  6/21/2022

 

Jan. 6 House Hearings | Day 5

In its fifth public hearing, the congressional committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack detailed its findings of how former President Donald Trump pressured the Department of Justice to overturn the 2020 election results.

Three of Mr. Trump’s top Justice Department officials, the acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, the Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue, and Assistant Attorney General Steven Engel, all recounted how Mr. Trump wanted the department to undermine and overturn the election and how, when that effort failed, Mr. Trump nearly installed a loyalist who would carry out his demands. Streamed live on Jun 23, 2022

 

Former Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson testifies during Jan. 6 hearing — 6/28/2022

A former top aide to ex-President Donald Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows is set to testify Tuesday before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol during a surprise hearing announced just a day earlier, NBC News reported.

Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide, made waves last week when the committee shared video of her naming multiple Republican lawmakers who allegedly sought presidential pardons in the wake of the Capitol riot.

The revelations from her taped deposition marked the climax of the panel’s fifth public hearing on its initial findings from a nearly yearlong investigation into the attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6, 2021. The committee said last week that its final two hearings would come in July, but on Monday afternoon it abruptly announced the latest hearing “to present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony.”

The committee blames Trump for conjuring the violent crowd and sending them toward the Capitol, and has strongly suggested he broke the law in doing so. The panel has placed the former president at the center of a multifaceted conspiracy to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

 

Jan. 6 House Hearings | Day 6

Jan. 6 committee hearing examines the role extremist groups played in the Capitol riot—7/12/22

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot is poised Tuesday to show how domestic violent extremist groups helped fuel the attack on the U.S. Capitol as part of former President Donald Trump’s campaign to try to overturn his loss to President Joe Biden.

The committee’s seventh public hearing focuses on how Trump’s attention turned toward the pivotal date of Jan. 6, 2021, after his other efforts to challenge the 2020 election outcome — by pressuring state-level officials, Department of Justice leaders and others — failed to secure a win.

The latest hearing comes four days after the committee received what it called “critical testimony” from former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, a highly sought-after witness at the center of the panel’s yearlong investigation into the riot at the Capitol by a violent pro-Trump mob.

Cipollone, whose interview is expected to play a role in Tuesday’s hearing, also “corroborated key elements” from the bombshell testimony of ex-White House

 

Jan. 6 House Hearings | Day 7

(7/12/22) Here are the key takeaways:

• Trump’s Dec. 19 tweet: Trump’s December tweet urged his followers to come to Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, 2021 for a “wild” and “big” protest. The tweet attracted some of his most extreme supporters, including followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory, White supremacists and other proponents of violence, according to witness interviews released by the committee. A former Twitter employee also testified that he was concerned that Trump seemed to be talking directly to extremists, but remained unchecked on the platform.
  Planning for the march: Trump planned days ahead of Jan. 6, 2021, to tell his supporters to march to the US Capitol from his rally on the National Mall, according to an unsent tweet intended for Trump’s account.
• The committee used the tweet to show how the former President and his advisers were interested in sending crowds to Capitol Hill. Lawyers for Trump since the Jan. 6 attack have tried to argue his encouraging supporters to walk to the Capitol was political speech, and that he was not in control of the crowd nor responsible for the riot at the Capitol. “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,” Rep. Stephanie Murphy said.
• Concerns about plans: A text message between a key organizer of the Jan. 6 rally and a top Trump ally — Kylie Kremer and Mike Lindell respectively — shows Kremer was concerned about making public well-established plans for a march from the Ellipse to the Capitol. “It can also not get out about the march because I will be in trouble with the national park service and all the agencies but POTUS is going to call for it ‘unexpectedly,’” she wrote to Lindell. Separately, Brad Parscale, Trump’s former campaign manager, privately said on Jan. 6, 2021, that Trump was “asking for civil war” and that he felt “guilty for helping him win,” according to text messages.
• Roger Stone and extremist groups: The committee zeroed in on Roger Stone’s connections to the far-right organizations, saying that “leaders in both the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers worked with Trump allies.” Figures in Trump’s circle, including Roger Stone and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, hired the Oath Keepers as private security details and rallied with the Proud Boys, Raskin said. Stone also used encrypted chats to communicate with the leaders of both groups, according to the committee.
• Conceding the election: In clips from Cipollone’s deposition, he agreed with other Trump officials that there was not sufficient evidence of election fraud. Cipollone specifically testified that he believed Trump should’ve conceded the election. Many other Trump White House officials shared the view that once the litigation on alleged voting fraud ended and the Electoral College met, the election was over — including Ivanka Trump and former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.

 

Jan. 6 House Hearings | Day 8

Jan. 6 committee hearing scrutinizes Former President Trump’s actions during riot — 7/21/22

The Jan. 6 committee held its eighth public hearing Thursday, the latest in a series of high-profile productions laying out the case that the deadly riot was the result of then-President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the election.

The prime-time hearing focused on what happened during the 187 minutes between Trump’s speech, during which he encouraged supporters to march to the Capitol, and his tweet encouraging rioters to head home.

Key highlights:

• Trump refused to say the election was over in a Jan. 7 speech, according to never-before-seen outtakes aired Thursday.
• New footage shows Sen. Josh Hawley fleeing the mob after he “riled up” the crowd with a fist pump.
• Trump resisted calling for peace until Ivanka Trump convinced him, a former White House aide said in live testimony.
• Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone said in recorded testimony that White House staff wanted rioters to go home and suggested Trump did not.
• Witnesses corroborated a “heated exchange” between Trump and his security detail.

 

CNBC Jan. 6 House Hearings | Day 9

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is set to take a broader look Thursday at the plot to overturn former President Donald Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

The committee’s ninth public hearing could be its last investigative presentation in the ongoing probe. The hearing comes less than four weeks before the Nov. 8 midterm elections.

The panel is investigating the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when a violent mob of Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, where a joint session of Congress had convened to confirm Biden’s electoral victory over Trump. The rioters fought through lines of police officers and entered the building, forcing lawmakers to flee their chambers for safety.

A committee aide said Thursday’s hearing will examine events that took place before, during and after the riot itself, with a particular focus on Trump’s state of mind and his level of involvement with the scheme to challenge the election results, NBC News reported. The nine-member panel will seek to contextualize those plans, while providing new information and witness testimony, the aide said.

 

 

The Truth, Trump Knew The Election Wasn’t Stolen

Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards described a ‘war scene’ during the first night of prime time hearings for the January 6 Committee. Joe Scarborough shares his reactions to Edwards’ testimony and to the footage aired during the hearing.

 

Jan. 6 Committee Seeking Newt Gingrich Testimony On False Election Claims

January 6 committee is seeking a transcribed interview with former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Gingrich reportedly “in contact with senior advisors to President Trump” over false election claims. Former Federal Prosecutor Renato Mariotti adding that he is surprised to hear Gingrich is being sought out, and that “my first question would be ‘what conversations he was in with Eastman, Clark and others regarding those fake electors.’”

 

Ted Cruz Plotted Election Overthrow While Hiding In Closet During Capitol Riot

Republican Senator Ted Cruz has admitted that he hid with other Republicans in a broom closet during the Capitol Riot, and while in the closet, he and his friends discussed ways that they could put up challenges to the electoral college certification. This was happening DURING the Capitol Riot itself, so they were all afraid for their lives but that still didn’t stop them from plotting their coup. Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.

 

“Trump Was Told Election Workers He Terrorized Was Innocent, Hearings Show”

“Trump and his supporters terrorized Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, by falsely accusing them of rigging the state’s election against him even though former Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue told him the accusations were bogus”.

 

Lawrence On The ‘Unhinged’ Meeting Leading To January 6th Riotuse aide Cassidy Hutchinson, the committee said.

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains what we learned from the seventh public hearing held by the January 6th Committee which revealed new details about an Oval Office showdown that preceded the Capitol riot.

 

Barr: Trump was ‘detached from reality’

Jun 13, 2022 In a hearing of the committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, former Attorney General William Barr testified he worried former President Donald Trump was “detached from reality.”

 

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Four Former Trump Aides Subpoenaed in Jan. 6 Capitol Riot Investigation

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, adviser Steve Bannon, former deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino and former Defense Department official Kashyap Patel were subpoenaed by The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol

 

19 shocking questions Republicans don’t want answered about January 6

 

Jan. 6 Committee Challenged By Trump’s Missing Call Logs During Capitol Riot

New York Times Washington correspondent Michael Schmidt, former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal, and national correspondent for Politico Betsy Woodruff Swan discuss investigators finding gaps in records of Trump’s Jan. 6 calls

 

Top Pence aide will cooperate with Jan. 6 committee

Marc Short, the former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, is cooperating with the January 6 committee, a significant development that will give investigators insight from one of the highest-ranking Trump officials.

 

10-4-21 UPDATE: Trump Aides Face Possible ‘Criminal Referrals’

The four Trump aides who were slapped with subpoenas from the January 6th Committee have until Thursday to hand over documents. Politico also reports that “the deadline for Trump to ask President Joe Biden to shield his records” is expected to come up this week. MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber is joined by former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade to discuss.

 

Former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal and former Republican Congresswoman Barbara Comstock react to the subpoenas issued to four top Trump advisers as the Jan. 6 committee ramps up its investigation

 

New Round Of Trump Insiders Subpoenaed By January 6th Committee

Rachel Maddow shares audio of Donald Trump campaign staffer Angela McCallum encouraging a Michigan state legislator to reject the state’s 2020 election results and send pro-Trump electors to Congress instead, and other details from new subpoenas issued by the January 6th Committee to people in Trump’s campaign who tried to overturn the 2020 election results.

 

1/6 Committee Finds Trump White House Metadata On Letter Pressing GA On Election

Rachel Maddow shares part of a public transcript from the January 6th Committee’s attempt to depose former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark in which it is revealed that the letter Clark sent to pressure Georgia to overturn Donald Trump’s election loss contained document metadata from the White House Communications Agency.

 

Steve Bannon Admitted to Helping Plan January 6th Insurrection

 

Listen to Steve Bannon’s from his War Room podcast the day before the storming of the Capitol on January 5, 2021 – “All hell is going to break loose”.

 

Four Trump Lackeys Subpoenaed by the Select Committee Investigating the Insurrection!

Jesse talks about the latest breaking news related to the announcement of the House Select Committee investigating the events surrounding the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building. Rep Benny Thompson has revealed that FOUR top people in Donald Trump’s orbit have now been issued subpoenas to testify before the committee. Steve Bannon, Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino, and Kash Patel.

 

Bannon’s admission creates a huge problem for Trump loyalists

Description from CNN / YouTube: “The select committee investigating the January 6 riot at the US Capitol issued its first round of subpoenas Thursday, targeting close aides and allies of former President Donald Trump.

The subpoenas come as the select committee seeks to investigate efforts the Trump White House took to potentially overturn the 2020 presidential election and how the spread of misinformation fueled the anger and violence that led to the Capitol insurrection.

The four subpoenas are going to former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, former adviser Steve Bannon and Kash Patel, a former chief of staff to then-acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller who had also served as an aide to Republican Rep. Devin Nunes.

Bannon appeared to admit on his podcast to talking with former President Trump about “killing” Biden’s presidency “in the crib” in the days before the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol”.

 

Trump World ‘Furious’ As House Jan. 6 Committee Issues Subpoenas

 

 

Democrats investigation into January 6 was done to expose the TRUTH and FACTS about the January 6 riots and insurrection, Republicans conducted 8 Investigations into Benghazi for Political purposes.