Jan. 6 hearings

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday focused on ways violent far-right extremists answered Donald Trump's tweet for a big Washington rally as a "call to arms," ...

In vulgar and often racist language the messages beaming across the far-right forums planned for the big day that they said Trump was asking for in Washington. It would be a "red wedding," said one, a reference to an episode of the television show Game of Thrones that featured mass killing. When he sent this tweet, Trump became the first president in American history to call for a protest against the peaceful transfer of power. An attorney for Rhodes recently told the committee that he wants to testify publicly. Federal authorities have explicitly linked at least 38 rioters to the pro-Trump conspiracy theory, according to an Associated Press review of court records. At the witness table to testify in person was Jason Van Tatenhove, an ally of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes. Another witness was Stephen Ayres, who pleaded guilty last month to disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building. The Oath Keepers have denied there was any plan to storm the Capitol. As night turned to morning, Trump tweeted the call for supporters to come to Washington on Jan. 6, when Congress would be tallying the Electoral College results. After the Capitol siege, Rhodes called someone with an urgent message for Trump, another group member has said. The panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is delving into what it calls the final phase of Trump's multi-pronged effort to halt Joe Biden's victory. It all culminated with the attack on the Capitol, the committee says. Cipollone demanded about the false claims of voter fraud. Tuesday's hearing is the seventh for the Jan. 6 committee.

Members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers groups, who are now facing rare sedition charges, readily answered Donald Trump's rally invitation.

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, one of two Republicans on the panel, said at the beginning of the hearing that the committee had observed “a change in how witnesses and lawyers in the Trump orbit approach this committee and their strategy” over the past few weeks. Eugene Scalia, the Labor Secretary at the time, said he told the president in a call that it was time to say that Biden had won. The aides described a chaotic six hours of back and forth, starting with Trump talking to a group of the informal advisers with no White House aides present. Other aides described “screaming” as the advisers floated wild theories of election fraud with no evidence to back them up, and as White House lawyers aggressively pushed back. “For millions of Americans, that may be painful to accept. Many said they were firmly convinced Biden’s victory was a done deal after the states certified the electors on Dec. 14 and after dozens of Trump’s campaign lawsuits failed in court. He is not an impressionable child,” Cheney said. Powell said sarcastically that she thought Cipollone set a new “ground speed record” getting there. “And just like everyone else in our country, he is responsible for his own actions and his own choices.” Raskin said Trump emboldened the groups around a common goal. Florida Rep. Stephanie Murphy said the tweet “served as a call to action and in some cases as a call to arms.” She said the president “called for backup” as he said Vice President Mike Pence and other Republicans didn’t have enough courage to try to block President Joe Biden’s win at the Jan. 6 joint session. House investigators are laying out the origins of the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, using video testimony and live witnesses to describe former President Donald Trump’s “call to action” in a December tweet and how White House advisers urged the president to drop his false claims of election fraud.

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.

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 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.

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.

"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.

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

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 ...