Jan. 6 hearings

The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, is returning to prime time for its final planned hearing this month that will seek to show in ...

Matthews, the former deputy press secretary, was one of several White House aides calling for Trump to condemn the violence. That's where I knew that I was leaving that day," Pottinger said in the video deposition. Committee aides say that the panel will show how Trump "refused to act to defend the Capitol" while rioters were attacking it. Previous reporting from CNN and others, as well as excerpts from committee depositions that have been publicly released -- have detailed how Trump was watching television outside the Oval Office as rioters breached the Capitol walls. Pottinger, the former deputy national security adviser, served under Trump for four years. I think our members have all indicated there is potential for future hearings.

This is the final hearing planned so far for the summer but the committee has left the door open for additional hearings to be scheduled.

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House committee will hold its final scheduled hearing, making the case Donald Trump may have violated the law by not stopping Capitol attack.

The proportion of Republicans who think Trump shouldn’t stand for office again also increased, to 32 percent from 26 percent in early June. Forty percent of Republicans say Trump was at least partly to blame for the attack, an increase of about seven percentage points from before the hearings. Or he could have sent a tweet trying to stop the violence far earlier than he actually did, during the 187-minute duration of the Capitol attack. Today’s rulings indicates the special grand jury will continue to remain one potential avenue for allies of the former president, or perhaps Trump himself, to face criminal charges over his meddling in the 2020 election. “Donald Trump ignored and disregarded the desperate pleas of his own family, including Ivanka and Don Jr,” Thompson said. Photographers gathered beneath the dais to take close-up shots of the witnesses. During a previously aired clip of tesimony he gave, he said he decided to quit after seeing a Trump tweet saying that Mike Pence should have had more courage. Within 15 minutes of leaving the stage, President Trump knew that the Capitol was besieged and under attack.” Efforts to litigate and overcome immunity and executive privilege claims have been successful, and those continue. “In the course of these hearings, we have received new evidence and new witnesses have bravely stepped forward. Pottinger resigned as deputy national security adviser in response the January 6, the highest-ranking White House official (other than cabinet secretaries) to do so. She resigned, saying she was “was deeply disturbed by what I saw” on January 6.

The Jan. 6 House committee's hearings have drawn on more than 1000 interviews in its investigation of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. Take our quiz to see ...

He underscored that message in his live testimony. Then-White House counsel Cipollone was also witness to the chaotic Dec. 18, 2020, meeting in which a group of visitors promoting false claims about the election got an audience with Trump, alarming advisers who came running. Among their recommendations, according to White House advisers’ testimony, was that Trump should sign an executive order instructing the Defense Department to seize voting machines. Ex-Trump adviser Herschmann and others described a wild, profane White House meeting that unfolded shortly before Trump issued his infamous tweet urging supporters to come to D.C. on Jan. 6. “I think that it got to the point where the screaming was completely, completely out there. He doesn’t think they’re doing anything wrong.” …. I felt horrible for picking this job and being the one that always wants to help and always there, never missing not one election.” The valet had articulated that the president was extremely angry … and had thrown his lunch against the wall.” In a taped interview played last month, Barr, a former attorney general, said Trump seemed “ detached from reality” as he latched onto outlandish, false theories about election fraud. Edwards, an officer with the Capitol Police, recounted “carnage” on Jan. 6 in live prime-time testimony last month. Once the third-highest ranking Republican in the House, she was ousted from leadership after vocally criticizing Trump and has waged a lonely crusade against him ever since, while facing a tough fight for reelection in Wyoming. Not quite.

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol will hold the last of its summer series of hearings at 8 p.m. ET.

Some 29% said the hearings made them more likely to back a Democrat, while 19% said they were steered more toward a Republican candidate.\n\nThe survey was taken before the most recent House select committee hearing, which generated headlines when a former White House aide testified that Mr. Trump had been told that some of his supporters were armed when he urged them to march to the Capitol and sought to join them there.\n\nWhile some polls find that many Americans are worried about the future of U.S. democracy, surveys generally find that voters see inflation, the overall economy, crime, abortion or other matters as more pressing concerns. Committee members have suggested that their presentation will make the case that Mr. Trump failed to use his powers to call off the attack.\n\nIn the Quinnipiac poll, some 61% said they believed Mr. Trump deserved “a lot’’ or “some’’ blame for the attack, including 45% who said he deserved “a lot’’ of the blame. The poll was taken July 11-17.\n\nQuinnipiac University found similar results: 61% of Americans said they were following the committee’s work very closely or somewhat closely, a July 14-18 survey found. Americans on the whole are paying attention to the House select committee’s investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, but there is little sign that the committee has pushed the matter to the top of the list of voter concerns.\n\nThose are some of the conclusions from polls that have tested public opinion in recent weeks. Some 36% said he deserved “not much’’ or none of the blame. Here are some of the main findings about the committee's work from recent surveys:\n\nAmericans are paying attention.\n\nNearly six in 10 Americans, some 58%, say they are paying a lot of attention or some attention to the hearings, with 41% saying they are paying little or no attention, an NPR/PBS/Marist survey found.

The primetime Jan. 6 hearing on July 21 will focus on Trump's conduct as the Capitol was being stormed, exploring his response as rioters broke into the ...

Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) and Elaine Luria (D-Va.) — two military veterans — are expected to focus on Trump’s inaction and will question two witnesses in person: Sarah Matthews, Trump’s deputy White House press secretary, and Matthew Pottinger, a former National Security Council official. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol holds a prime-time hearing on Thursday focused on President Donald Trump’s defiant inaction as a mob stormed the Capitol, ransacked the seat of democracy, assaulted law enforcement and sought to carry out Trump’s demand to stop the confirmation of Joe Biden’s electoral college win.

The House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection will put on a prime-time show Thursday night to highlight then-President Donald Trump's ...

Key lines: So far, Bannon has been a peripheral figure in what the House hearings have presented, and could continue to be mentioned minimally, given he was not an administration official on January 6, 2021. The deletion of these text messages from some of the most consequential days in recent American history is clearly a suspicious coincidence. Federal prosecutors laid out their case in just a little more than a day of proceedings before the jury. Because I'm not sure who told him not only this was a good idea, but that calling Wisconsin ... having them undo the election, was even possible. Bannon's attorneys declined on Thursday to call any witnesses in his defense. But a conviction in the case could be a gust in the sails of the House's work ...

On Thursday night, the panel did exactly that, when a National Security witness revealed that the Secret Service agents assigned to protect Mike Pence were ...

“I simply did not want to be associated with the events that were unfolding at the Capitol,” he said Thursday. In recorded testimony in which, due to fear of retribution, his voice was scrambled, a security professional working at the White House was asked about a note he took during the riot, in which he wrote, “Service at the Capitol does not sound good right now.” Explaining what that meant, the staffer told the committee: “The members of the VP detail at this time were starting to fear for their own lives. On Thursday night, the panel did exactly that, when a National Security witness revealed that the Secret Service agents assigned to protect Mike Pence were terrified they were going to die.

Former President Donald Trump could not be compelled to call off the mob that nearly destroyed democracy.

Again and again, the panel has asserted that Trump was an instigator and a would-be participant in the charge, an unhinged leader who literally lunged for the wheel of the car that would take him to the Capitol. “The mob was accomplishing President Trump’s purpose,” Representative Adam Kinzinger said tonight. Sarah Matthews, a former deputy press secretary who testified at the hearing, told the panel that Trump could have delivered live remarks to the nation “within a matter of minutes” simply by walking down a hallway to the White House press-briefing room. Trump continued to resist urgent pleas to issue a forceful denunciation of the violence from members of Congress, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy; prominent Fox News commentators such as Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity; and two of his children, Ivanka and Don Jr. Even when he agreed to send tweets and film a video, aides testified that he haggled over the wording. Viewers tonight saw a mash-up of senior administration officials testifying that they were aware of no Trump calls to the secretary of defense, the attorney general, or the secretary of homeland security. After the Secret Service rebuffed his demands to join the crowd himself, the president settled into his seat at the head of the dining-room table. The mob came so close to Pence that, the committee revealed tonight, the Secret Service agents protecting him feared for their lives and wanted “to say goodbye” to their families.

Trump went through numerous takes while taping a video condemning rioters the day after the Capitol attack, recording the message as the threat of being ...

"I just want to say 'Congress has certified the results' without saying the election is over, OK?" Thursday night's primetime January 6 committee hearing largely focused on the 187 minutes between the conclusion of Trump's speech on the Ellipse prior to the riot and his tweet telling his supporters to go home. Trump made changes to the script of the address on several occasions, at one point taking the word "yesterday" out, in reference to the January 6 attack on the Capitol, saying "yesterday is a hard word for me."

Former President Donald Trump spent much of his time in the White House during the January 6 Capitol riot placing calls to senators urging them to delay the ...

Thursday night's hearing is the eighth held by the committee this summer, and the second in primetime. There are no White House call records dating to the time the riot took place, but former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a taped deposition that Trump asked for a list of senators to call–she testified she is not sure which senators he spoke with. Former President Donald Trump spent much of his time in the White House during the January 6 Capitol riot placing calls to senators urging them to delay the certification of the 2020 election, the House January 6 committee revealed Thursday, though it's unclear exactly who he spoke with because of a lack of records.

The Jan. 6 committee will hold its eighth public hearing on Thursday, focusing on Trump's actions during the riot.

That led to a heated argument with his detail that delayed the departure of the motorcade to the White House," Luria said. And he made targets out of his own vice president and the lawmakers gathered to do the people’s work," Thompson said. "And those on Capitol Hill, and across the nation, begged President Trump to help. "We know from the employee that the TV was tuned to Fox News all afternoon." And so I think in that moment for him to tweet out that message about Mike Pence was pouring gasoline in the fire and making it much worse." The tweet linked to a post from Matthews thanking Trump on the day he left office, on Jan. 20, 2021. The committee then aired a Fox News clip from that day, a channel Trump was "watching all afternoon," Luria said. "By that time, although the violence was far from over, law enforcement had started to turn the tide, reinforcements were on the way, and elected officials were in secure locations," Luria said. And I thought that he needed to include a call to action and to tell these people to go home, and a debate ensued over it," she said. "And as the video went on, I felt a small sense of relief because he finally told these people to go home," she said. I don’t think there was anything else to do," Herschmann said in video testimony that the committee showed. The committee played additional, never-before-seen footage of Trump struggling to refine a taped message to the country a day after the riot.

The January 6 committee, in its final public hearing until the fall, presented damning new evidence Thursday highlighting then-President Donald Trump's ...

We saw previously undisclosed outtakes of video statements that Trump released on January 6 and 7, which showed Trump struggling to condemn the rioters. After all, the panel hired a prominent former TV executive to produce the hearings, and has worked aggressively with subpoenas and court battles to obtain mountains of new material. The panel has conducted eight public hearings so far, and has seen impressive TV ratings while presenting substantial amounts of damaging new information about Trump and January 6. As mentioned, the hearing featured testimony from an unnamed White House security official and a DC police sergeant who provided more context on the Secret Service's activities. While the detail about Trump lunging toward a Secret Service agent was just one snippet of Hutchinson's testimony, the pushback likely contributed to the committee's decision to add additional testimony backing up her account during Thursday's hearing. Luria said the committee had information from two additional sources to partially corroborate Hutchinson's testimony that Trump lunged at his Secret Service detail. In this respect, the panel delivered on its promise to bring new material. "He was very animated, very direct, very firm to Secretary Miller: Get the military down here, get the Guard down here, put down this situation." The committee has previously gone after congressional Republicans for their role aiding Trump's efforts to overturn the election, including seeking pardons after January 6. In addition, the panel spotlighted Sen. Josh Hawley, the Missouri Republican who led the Senate's objection to the election results on January 6. "You know, you're the Commander in Chief. You've got an assault going on on the Capitol of the United States of America and there's nothing? The House select committee also revealed, for the first time, Secret Service radio traffic as agents assessed the Senate stairwell where Pence would be evacuated, while rioters were confronting police in a hallway downstairs at the same time.

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

Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson said in taped remarks at the beginning of the hearing, after testing positive for Covid-19, that the hearings will reconvene in September. In the testimony, the committee asked Trump Jr. about his texts with Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows during the insurrection. AsCNN has previously reported, Trump Jr. texted Meadows that his dad has “got to condemn this sh*t ASAP,” and that his tweets in the earlier afternoon weren’t enough. “To my mind, it was a day that should be remembered in infamy. The moments were so tense, "there were calls to say goodbye to family members," an unidentified national security professional told the committee in a recorded interview. They truly latch on to every word and every tweet that he says." Cipollone also implied Trump was alone in his opposition to taking further action to convince rioters at the US Capitol to disperse and go home. - Donald Trump Jr’s testimony: For the first time, the committee played audio of Trump Jr.’s closed-door deposition. - Trump’s outtakes: The committee played outtakes from footage of Trump’s video message to rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, showing that Trump wanted to claim that the vast majority of his supporters who had stormed the US Capitol were acting "peacefully." Ultimately, these remarks were not the remarks the President delivered in the Rose Garden, Rep. Luria said, referring to the video Trump eventually sent out telling his supporters, "We love you." She said “within 15 minutes of leaving the stage,” a White House aide told Trump the Capitol was under attack. The committee also revealed, for the first time, Secret Service radio traffic as agents assessed the Senate stairwell where Pence would be evacuated, while rioters were confronting police in a hallway downstairs at the same time. She also testified that Trump was resisting sending a message of peace to rioters.

Michael Fanone, who suffered a heart attack while defending the Capitol, has heavily criticized lawmakers who downplay the violence of the riot.

He answered a citywide emergency on Jan. 6, 2021, and rushed to the Capitol to fend off the pro-Trump rioters. “I hope from the bottom of my heart that he suffers” in prison, the former officer told a federal judge. As he was leaving the hearing, Fanone sharply criticized Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), using colorful language while speaking to a reporter. Then a man wearing a black hat and holding a large banner with an image of former president Donald Trump and the words “toxic loser” uses the banner to separate Fanone from the people following him. He tells nearby police officers that the man with the anti-Trump banner “just hit me with his pole.” And [Fanone] was trying to get away.”

The committee, across eight hearings, has built a case – more political than legal – that Trump, who continues to lie about the election and teases he'll ...

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The January 6 committee examined what Trump did as staff pleaded for him to intervene during the attack on the Capitol.

It showed the now-infamous picture of Hawley walking into the Senate that day with his fist raised to a crowd of Trump supporters outside the Capitol. A Capitol Police officer who was present said the gesture "riled up the crowd." In a series of outtakes from taped remarks he delivered the day after the attack on the Capitol, Trump could not bear to admit defeat. On Thursday, they reminded viewers of how critical minority leader Kevin McCarthy was of Trump immediately after the attack, before quickly resuming his status as a Trump loyalist. Sen. Josh Hawley raised his fist to protesters outside the Capitol on Jan. 6. "I just want to say Congress has certified the results." "I don't want to say the election is over," Trump says in outtakes from his speech on Jan. 7. USA demands the truth!” said Trump on his since-deleted account. And it aired new footage of a still-defiant Trump from the day after the attack. “I see the impact that his words have on his supporters,” said Matthews, who had previously worked on Trump’s 2020 election campaign. “It looked like fuel being poured on the fire. That matched previous press reports about Trump’s activities at the time.

DANIELLE KURTZLEBEN, BYLINE: Vicki Nelson is busy. She's a school principal in Maryland. But she has been making time to watch the January 6 hearings. VICKI ...

And I am hungry for a leader who will use the full force of our laws to protect our democracy. But that definitely was, like, the last nail in the coffin. SHARON ANDERSON: I personally feel like the trial is just a dog and pony show. Eighty percent of Democrats are paying at least some attention to the hearings, compared to around 4 in 10 Republicans. For Bill Hastie, an Alabama Republican, the testimony of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson stood out as a sign the hearings are biased. So just that sequence made an impression on me and, again, reinforced, you know, what I would call a certain amount of unfairness to the proceedings. NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben spoke with some respondents to get a fuller picture of their reactions.

We hear from people in Los Angeles, Houston, Seattle and Lancaster, Pa., about their reaction to the Jan. 6 hearings. There have been eight hearings so far.

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Six weeks of televised hearings by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol have not collapsed Donald Trump's support, ...

Moving on from Trump doesn’t necessarily mean repudiating Trumpism. The former president didn’t invent the political attitudes associated with his name — opposition to immigration, suspicion of liberal elites, a desire to turn back the clock on racial and gender diversity. There’s also the behavior of other ambitious Republicans, who have grown bolder in their challenges to him. Whoever wins the 2024 nomination will resemble Trump much more than Sen. Mitt Romney, the party’s 2012 candidate and exemplar of the GOP establishment of yore. The share of Americans who say that Trump bears “a great deal” or a “good amount” of the blame for what happened stood at 57% in the latest survey, up slightly from 53% in December, Marist found. Currently, 55% of Americans have a negative view of Trump, compared with 41% who see him positively, according to the average of polls maintained by the Fivethirtyeight website. That 14-point deficit compares with 10 points in May — not a huge shift, but movement in the wrong direction for a person hoping to mount a political comeback. Trump and people close to him also could face charges from a grand jury in Georgia examining efforts to overturn the election results in that state, according to court filings. Views are more dug in on the question of Trump’s personal culpability, the poll found. Instead, the accusation served as a convenient way to deflect questions from senators about whether Trump knew in advance about the potential for violence and what, if anything, he did to stop it. Thursday’s hearing showed that for hours, Trump did nothing to stop the violence. But even before the hearings, losses by Trump-endorsed candidates in other primaries showed the limits of his power to reward or punish. Yes, Trump remains the most powerful figure in the Republican Party, able to exact revenge against political figures who openly fight him.

The former president has caught clips of daytime hearings on cable news or been filled in on specific pieces of testimony by other people.

The decision not to tune in has created room for some of those close to Mr. Trump to further their influence. 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. It’s not clear what Mr. Trump will do for Thursday’s hearing, which is taking place in prime time, just like the opening hearing. Other than the first hearing, which aired during prime time, they have been held during the day, when Mr. Trump is golfing. For the daytime hearings, Mr. Trump has largely caught the highlights on cable news or been filled in on specific pieces of testimony by other people.

The panel will document how former President Donald J. Trump did nothing for more than three hours as his supporters stormed the Capitol.

The forthcoming hearing is expected to focus on the 187 minutes during which President Donald J. Trump stood by while a mob of his supporters overran the Capitol, resisting repeated calls from those in his inner circle to tell the rioters to stand down. Since it began holding its series of hearings in June, the Jan. 6 committee has kept its schedule fluid, reflecting the evolving nature of its investigation. When the panel kicked off its series of summer hearings, tentative plans called for six sessions in the month of June and a final report to be issued by September. But the schedule slipped, and lawmakers found that as soon as they began to air the findings of their more than 1,000 interviews, even more witnesses emerged. The hearing is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Eastern time. A committee aide said Wednesday that the Thursday hearing was unlikely to be the last. Mr. Thompson has been one of the primary faces of the committee, but he is not the highest profile Democrat to test positive this week. The anchor Shannon Bream will devote her nightly show at that time to the topic. Mr. Kinzinger is an Air Force veteran who flew missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. One of the witnesses they plan to question in person, Matthew Pottinger, who was deputy national security adviser under Mr. Trump and the highest-ranking White House official to resign on Jan. 6, 2021, is a Marine Corps veteran. Thursday’s hearing, scheduled for 8 p.m., could be the final session for the committee this summer. It also plans to play recorded testimony from Pat A. Cipollone, the former White House counsel, and others to document Mr. Trump’s inaction on Jan. 6. The panel has already started detailing some of its evidence of Mr. Trump’s inaction. The committee has also said it received testimony from Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general who was Mr. Pence’s national security adviser.

Fox News's primetime stars chided Biden for contracting the virus they say he alleged couldn't be caught with a vaccine.

And then heasked why no Secret Service agents were called to testify, conveniently leaving out the part where they submitted a single text message to the committee after deleting all their exchanges from that day. He skewered the committee for not calling the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, or Washington mayor Muriel Bowser to testify about the lack of security at the Capitol while suggesting a slew of crude reinforcements that might’ve kept the mob at bay. Science, and the left’s supposed efforts to monopolize it, was a consistent theme on both Carlson’s and Hannity’s shows. He had Yale School of Public Health epidemiologist Harvey Risch on the show to tout ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as far more effective defenses against Covid – despite considerable medical assertions to the contrary. Carlson opened his hour-long show with a spirited takedown of Biden, scolding him for spreading the virus during his Middle East trip and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for dismissing the question of where the president might have contracted the virus. On Thursday night, as the Congressional hearings into the January 6 Capitol riot drew to a close, Tucker Carlson directed his outrage at a president he felt had lied and was not being held accountable for falsehoods that shook popular faith in the American democratic system.

“I wanted an excuse to look into and research topics,” Overstreet said. “And I realized like, oh, if I have to go explain this to someone else … then I have to ...

She also tries to use clips of videos of the hearings she finds on Congress.gov to help add credibility to her recaps. “I think it’s really important to talk about it on the app, because the more people who are aware of what’s going on, the more interested they become in it,” Silverman said. One of her recent videos is about the boycotting of Walgreens over reports that the pharmacy was denying birth control to some customers. Many of the creators say they work hard to avoid that. One compared the ratings of the hearings to regularly scheduled programming. “Believe it or not, that’s not even the most unhinged thing Trump does that she describes,” Silverstreet adds.