Liz Cheney was called "a compelling central character" with "steely resolve and understated intensity" who "is hard to look away from." [266][267] Politico reported two days after Hutchinson's testimony that members of the committee were skeptical of Ornato's credibility due to assertions made in his January and March depositions. Here's what she meant", "The committee is arguing Trump had a "seven-part plan" to overturn the election. Jacobs characterized much of Pences thought process during the time when Trump was pressuring him. The following Committees from the 117th Congress are no longer standing. C-SPAN 2 will air replays starting at 8 p.m. They closed the meeting by unanimously voting to subpoena the embattled former president in order to fill in the gaps left by uncooperative witnesses. [87], The committee panel observed that Donald Trump attempted to overturn a free and fair democratic election by promoting a seven-part conspiracy. The plan was to file a lawsuit and have a pending case with the Supreme Court, thus delaying the Senate's count of Biden's electors. En cliquant sur Accepter tout, vous acceptez que Yahoo et nos partenaires traitent vos informations personnelles et utilisent des technologies telles que les cookies pour afficher des publicits et des contenus personnaliss, et des fins de mesure des publicits et des contenus, dtude des audiences et de dveloppement de produit. As the attack lasted several hours, the video contained timestamps to illustrate the timeline. The committee revealed attempts to organize fake slates of alternate electors and established that "Trump had a direct and personal role in this effort. Members of the committee are also still debating how aggressively to pursue testimony from Trump and Pence. That's that's a big risk to you and to Ryan, your lawyer. Another bit of unfinished business is the committees subpoenas to five House Republicans, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Another witness yet to be heard from is Trump advisor and former White House aide Stephen K. Bannon, who was convicted in July on charges of contempt of Congress for defying the panels subpoena last year. The fifth hearing focused on former Justice Department officials who faced down a relentless pressure campaign from Trump over the election results while suppressing a bizarre challenge from within their own ranks. Rep. Luria recapped Trump's 187 minutes of inaction and dereliction of duty. [231] As the mob became more vocal, calling for Pence to be hanged, Hutchinson overheard a conversation between Cipollone and Meadows, in which Cipollone argued that they needed to act urgently to prevent violence. Pak testified. A bipartisan group of senators has reached agreement on proposed changes to the Electoral Count Act in an attempt to prevent another Jan. 6 attack from occurring. [292] Kellye SoRelle, a lawyer who assists the Oath Keepers and a volunteer attorney for the Trump campaign, named Stone, Info War's Alex Jones, and pro-Trump organizer Ali Alexander as the people who organized the January 2021 Stop the Steal rallies. In one exchange, Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro wrote "We want to frame things so that Thomas could be the one to issue some sort of stay or other circuit justice opinion saying Georgia is in legitimate doubt", and posited that Justice Thomas would be their "only chance to get a favorable judicial opinion by Jan. 6, which might hold up the Georgia count in Congress". July 21: Two former White House aides described how Trump ignored pleas from advisors, family members and Republicans in Congress to call off the rioters. French wrote that "Hutchinson's sworn testimony closes a gap in the criminal case Trump is closer to a credible prosecution than ever before. In advance of the hearings, congressional Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, began to organize themselves to defend Trump. An Executive Summary[7] of the committee's findings was published on December 19, 2022; a Final Report[8] was published on December 22, 2022.[9]. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) will provide a website archive for these Committee websites in the Spring of 2023. Tuesday's hearing, the seventh and penultimate hearing this summer, began with a tweet Trump sent at 1:42 a.m. on Dec. 19, 2020, which said, "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. That report is expected by the end of the year. The seventh hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol detailed how former President Donald Trump summoned protesters to Washington and encouraged a mob. The conspiracy theory was relayed by Congressman Scott Perry to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who then asked Rosen and Donoghue to investigate on behalf of the Department of Justice. The women and their family members were subjected to anti-Black racist smears and death threats and were warned by the FBI that they would not be safe in their home. [288] One notable example came from Kelly Meggs, the head of the Florida Oath Keepers, who posted a message on Facebook pledging that his group would "work together" with the Three-Percenters and Proud Boys, two other right-wing extremist groups, just hours after the tweet was posted. The letter falsely asserted that the Justice Department found election irregularities in that state and others, in an effort to persuade the state legislature to rescind Biden's certified victory in Georgia. The fifth hearing focused on Trump's attempts to meddle with the Department of Justice and install loyalists at the Department who would back up his false election claims, featuring in-person testimony from three former DOJ officials. Herschmann also warned against making negative references to Mike Pence. [22] A ninth hearing was convened in October. [248], While the committee questioned Hutchinson, they showed brief clips of the videotaped testimony of others. In the first hearing, lawmakers laid out new information about Trump and his allies' efforts to overturn the election, displayed clips from recorded video depositions from those close to Trump and showed a harrowing video montage laying out the timeline of the January 6 attack, including never-before-seen security camera and bodycam footage. The hearing, which was carried live by . After the election, Trump and Giuliani amplified a video that was taken out of context, and used the footage to make baseless claims that Freeman and Moss had committed election fraud. Leonnig said there was a large contingent of Trump's Secret Service detail that wanted Biden to fail and some "took to their personal media accounts to cheer on the insurrection and the individuals riding up to the Capitol as patriots. [19][20][21], The eighth hearing on July 21, 2022, presented evidence and details of Trump's refusal to call off the attack on the Capitol, despite hours of pleas from officials and insiders. Stay up to date with what you want to know. A former Twitter employee whose identity was kept anonymous by the House committee testified feeling growing dread that Trump was using the social media platform to galvanize dangerous extremists. This messaging presented a challenge for them, in part because they did not know in advance what information the committee would reveal at the hearings. '"[352] Conway, in her testimony, claimed that she briefly spoke with Trump the day after the Capitol attack and that he said his supporters were upset. At one point, Trump told them that voting machines had been hacked and the election stolen. White House counsel Pat Cipollone told the committee that the lawyers kept asking Mr Giuliani and Ms Powell for evidence but never received any credible answers. In the weeks after the election, Giuliani, Trumps personal attorney,shared a video of Moss and Freeman counting ballots on One America News Network, falsely alleging they tampered with the ballots. Jon Healey is currently senior editor on the Utility Journalism team, which tries to help readers solve problems, answer questions and make big decisions about life in and around Los Angeles. Edwards, who was one of the first law enforcement officers injured that day, described falling behind a line of Metropolitan Police Department officers, when she first saw the scale of the chaos unfolding around her. [336][337], On November 11, 2022, Trump sued the House select committee and challenged the subpoena, seeking to block testimony and submission of documents. [186] (Biden had won the Georgia election by 11,779 votes.) June 23: Three former top Justice Department officials recounted the former presidents efforts to have the department support his unfounded claims about a tainted election, as well as his aborted effort to install an acting attorney general who backed those claims. Cheney said Trump's efforts were part of a "sophisticated seven-part plan", which the committee hearings would establish. Heres what you need to know. Hutchinson testified that both Trump and Meadows were warned on the morning of Jan. 6 that supporters gathered on the National Mall brought weapons with them, yet they failed to take action to stop the ensuing violence. She said a witness, whom she did not name, told the committee they had received multiple such messages prior to giving testimony to the committee: "What they said to me is, as long as I continue to be a team player, they know that I'm on the team, I'm doing the right thing, I'm protecting who I need to protect, you know, I'll continue to stay in good graces in Trump world. Thursday, Oct. 13 at 1 p.m. EDT - After a summerlong series of hearings over the U.S. Capitol insurrection - and with three months left in the year - the House Jan. 6 committee plans to resume. Although details differed, agents confirmed there was an angry confrontation, with one agent relating that Trump "tried to lunge over the seat for what reason, nobody had any idea," but no one asserted Trump assaulted Engel. At times he could not control his laughter at the absurdity of some fraud allegations, such as the ", John Wood Investigative counsel for the Select Committee, Wandrea "Shaye" Moss Employee of the Department of Registration and Elections in, "Lady" Ruby Freeman Mother of Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, present in person but heard via pre-recorded testimony, Josh Roselman investigative counsel for the Select Committee, Casey Lucier investigative counsel for the Select Committee, Matt Morgan General counsel, Trump campaign, "Lady" Ruby Freeman mother of Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, present in person but heard via pre-recorded testimony, Bradley Johnson retired CIA Chief of Station, Nick Luna White House special assistant to the President, Jason Van Tatenhove Former national media director for the. Kinzinger's wife received a handwritten letter that threatened to execute her, her husband and their five-month-old baby. [174], Former White House lawyer Eric Herschmann had told the committee that Rudy Giuliani privately admitted on the morning of January 6 that Pence didn't have authority to overturn the election, even though Giuliani gave a speech at the Ellipse that afternoon telling the opposite to the crowd. The paper's board wrote, in part, "Cassidy Hutchinson's Tuesday testimony ought to ring the death knell for former President Donald Trump's political career Trump is a disgrace. ", "Were going to be going through, really, some of what weve already found, but augmenting with new material that weve discovered through our work throughout this summer," Lofgren said, specifically referring to "what the president's intentions were, what he knew what he did, what others did. Shortly before the committee hearing, Trump released a statement saying that Bowers had privately agreed with him in November 2020 that the Arizona election was rigged and stolen, but Bowers specifically denied Trump's allegation during the hearing while under oath. Mike Pence said no, Thompson said. California Rep. Zoe Lofgren told CNN on Tuesday that the hearing will feature information about "close ties" between far-right extremist groups and those in the former president's orbit, but "thats not the only thing the hearing will be about. [268] Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig, author of the 2021 book Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, characterized Engel and Ornato as "very, very close to President Trump." [13] In his legal opinion, he said, those who wrote the Constitution wouldn't have "put it in the hands of one person to determine who would be the president of the United States". Vice Chair Cheney elaborated on the history and importance of the peaceful transfer of power. "[259] The Lawfare blog editorialized, "Cassidy Hutchinson's Testimony Changed Our Minds about Indicting Donald Trump". The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection plans to hold eight public hearings in June, the panel's chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, told reporters Thursday The. For example, when asked whether the next session would be the last, Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) Attorney Mark Paoletta said Thomas is eager to answer the committees questions to clear up any misconceptions about her work relating to the 2020 election.. [230], Hutchinson said that Rudy Giuliani told her on January 2 that Trump and his allies planned to go to the Capitol on January 6. June 9: Illustrating just how violent the Jan. 6 attack was, Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards testified that she was slipping in peoples blood as she fought to defend the lawmakers inside. And Brad, we just want the truth. "[360] Chris Hayes, of MSNBC, condemned Fox News saying they "went to great lengths" by not airing the hearing and that the network simultaneously countered the findings of the House Select Committee investigation by doing "everything in their power to make sure their viewers were shielded from the brutal truth about the violent coup that Donald Trump fomented. You can watch it here. Bowers said that Eastman told him: "Just do it and let the courts sort it out." [239] Trump knew the crowd was armed yet wanted security checks loosened; he specifically wanted the magnetometers removed. There must be stiff consequences for those responsible. The committee also heard from Stephen Ayres, one of the rioters who broke into the Capitol that day and pleaded guilty last month to a misdemeanour count of disorderly conduct. [293], Jason Van Tatenhove, who was first hired by the Oath Keepers in 2014, gave live testimony about the group's radicalization and how Stewart Rhodes, the group's founder, used conspiracy theories to increase membership and funding, stating that Oath Keepers drifted "further and further right into the alt-right world, into White nationalists and even straight-up racists and it came to a point where I could no longer continue to work for them". The House Jan. 6 investigation committee has conducted over 1,000 interviews with insurrectionists and Trump aides. "[22], The ninth hearing on October 13, 2022,[23][24] presented video of Roger Stone and evidence that some Trump associates planned to claim victory in the 2020 election regardless of the official results. "[355], The first public hearing of 2022 was carried live by all the major networks except Fox News. Until those official archives are public, the links below provide access to the official documents of the committees no longer standing and access to known archival copies of the sites . Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies, The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol hold a prime-time hearing in the Cannon House Office Building on July 21, 2022 in Washington, DC. [335] Under the subpoena, the committee demanded that Trump hand over documents related to communications with Roger Stone, John Eastman, and others by November 4, and requested testimony by November 14. Trump became aware of the breach and at 2:24pm tweeted, "Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what was necessary." I'm telling you what's going to happen. Jacob said Pence did not want the world seeing him fleeing and giving the insurgents any satisfaction from it. ET on C-SPAN 3 and C-SPAN Radio. 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