Chairman Bennie G. Thompson and Members of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol hold hearing to hear first-hand from members of the U.S. Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department.
Business Meeting on a Report Recommending that the House of Representatives Cite Stephen K. Bannon for Criminal Contempt of Congress.
Each one of the individuals who were subpoenaed yesterday had a role in raising money for or planning events that led up to the violent attack on the Capitol. We plan to follow the facts to help us get answers for the American people.
Business Meeting on a Report Recommending that the House of Representatives Cite Jeffrey B. Clark for Criminal Contempt of Congress
The Select Committee has gotten information from more than 275 witnesses with more interviews scheduled. For the outliers trying to stonewall our investigation: you will face consequences.
Business Meeting on a Report Recommending that the House of Representatives Cite Mark Randall Meadows for Criminal Contempt of Congress
We owe it to the American people to investigate what led up to and happened on January 6th, and to help ensure that nothing like this dark day happens again. History is watching.
"The committee believes that there is... good faith reason to conclude that the evidence we're seeking from Eastman's documents contain evidence showing crime or fraud." -Rep. Adam Schiff
John Eastman has claimed attorney-client privilege to attempt to conceal records from the Select Committee’s investigation. "The problem is that there was no evidence that he was acting as the president's attorney or that they formed an attorney-client relationship." -Rep. Jamie Raskin
The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol said the assault was not spontaneous but an “attempted coup” and a direct result of former president Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election.
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On the second day of the hearing, the committee showed former President Trump was consistently told by officials that his claims of a fraudulent election was baseless. This included recorded testimony by the former attorney general, William P. Barr, who said claims of widespread electoral fraud were nonsense.
Trump lost the election, knew he lost, yet continued to claim the election was ‘stolen’ and spread the Big Lie.
A message from Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney about Thursday's hearing.
The committee focused on the immense pressure that Trump and others including attorney John Eastman put on former Vice President Mike Pence to illegally overturn the 2020 election.
The fourth day of the hearings featured testimony by 3 Republican officials: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, his deputy Gabe Sterling and Arizona House of Representatives Speaker Rusty Bowers. All testified about their unwillingness to participate in legally dubious schemes including efforts to subvert the Electoral College with fake pro-Trump electors.
In its fifth public hearing, the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack detailed its findings of how former President Trump pressured the Department of Justice to overturn the 2020 election results.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to President Donald J. Trump’s final chief of staff, delivered explosive testimony to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, providing a vivid minute-by-minute account of heated confrontations she witnessed play out in the White House.
The seventh public hearing focused on how Donald J. Trump and his allies turned their efforts toward summoning supporters to Washington to protest the certification of the election after they had exhausted all legal avenues. 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.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol concluded its first round of public hearings with a nearly three-hour presentation centered on a crucial 187 minutes on that day featuring first-hand accounts inside the White House.
The ninth public hearing after an almost three month break. The hearing recapped former President Donald Trump's central role in efforts to subvert the 2020 presidential election. At the end of the hearing, the committee voted unanimously to subpoena the former president.