[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." The committee publicly voted on December 19, 2022[37] to make criminal referrals for Donald Trump and John Eastman to the DOJ, and ethics referrals for four members of Congress (Representatives McCarthy, Jordan, Biggs, and Perry) to the House Ethics Committee. The first hearing featured both video and in-person testimony from U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards and Nick Quested, a British documentary filmmaker who was embedded with the far-right group the Proud Boys on Jan. 6 and the night before. I doubt that. Updated: Feb 27, 2023 / 10:28 PM EST. 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[175], According to a timeline presented by the committee, by 2:10pm the Capitol had been breached and the mob began swarming in. You could litigate or investigate for a thousand years and never see anything as mind-blowing as this. What you witnessed is what a coordinated and planned effort would look like. [67] The hearings are part of the select committee's investigation. When she reported this to her boss, Meadows, he "didn't look up from his phone and said something to the effect of 'things might get real, real bad'." [227][228] Ms. Hutchinson obtained her own security prior to her public appearance,[229] and the committee enhanced its security for the sixth hearing at which she testified. Trump is heard to tell Raffensperger he had won Georgia by at least 400,000 votes, though he actually lost by 11,779 votes. 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. Chairman Bennie Thompson has called the legal effort a "delay tactic". 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". Moss had worked elections in Georgia for over a decade alongside her mother, Ruby Freeman, and told the committee she was taught by her grandmother how important it is to vote and how people before me a lot of people, older people, my family did not have that.. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md. Wandrea ArShaye Shaye Moss, a former Georgia elections worker targeted by Trump and his allies in the wake of the election, recalled the ways in which Trumps lies still impact her day-to-day life. Insiders have said former president Trump was not necessarily pleased with this strategy and felt there was "no one to defend" him.[70]. [180][181], The fourth televised hearing examined a scheme to refuse and return certified Biden elector slates back to seven key states, which had Republican-controlled legislatures. Former Trump attorney general Bill Barr remarked, "the department is clearly looking into all this, and this hearing definitely gave investigators a lot to chew on. "[258] Fox News host Bret Baier said her "testimony was very compelling from beginning to end"; conservative commentator George Conway said "This is the most astonishing testimony I have ever seen or heard or read. "[295][296], The eighth televised hearing was held July 21, 2022, at 8 PM Eastern time,[297][298] after being postponed from the original date of July 14, 2022. We are going to get charged with every crime imaginable. That report is expected by the end of the year. Both had resigned shortly after the attack on the Capitol. Not only would it be a politically risky move, but it is unclear what eventual recourse the panel would have against its own colleagues. "[213], Ultimately, the effort to appoint Clark, send the letter to Georgia officials, and attempt to decertify election results was averted when a majority of the DOJ Assistant Attorneys General threatened to resign en masse if the scheme went forward. Members of the committee are also still debating how aggressively to pursue testimony from Trump and Pence. She texted with Meadows and contacted lawmakers in Arizona and Wisconsin in the weeks after the election. During the Raffensperger testimony, the committee played audio excerpts of the phone call he had with Trump on January 2, 2021, and another call with Frances Watson, the chief investigative officer for Raffensperger's office. Whats the TV schedule for the final Jan. 6 committee hearing? Trump told Watson, "when the right answer comes out you'll be praised." [3] In June 2022, the committee held highly publicized hearings intended for live broadcast. Its fourth public hearing centered on Trump's efforts to pressure state officials to overturn the 2020 election, either by pressuring election officials in battleground states to reject ballots or submit slates of fake electors to Congress. Early in the investigation, the committee held a preliminary hearing in 2021. The select committee, formed in May 2021, has nine members: seven Democrats, including Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, and two Republicans, Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. [36] As used by the committee, labels such as "first hearing", "second hearing", et cetera refers to this series of televised hearings. 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. repeat itself. Throughout the hearing, graphic video footage captured during the attack was shown. [173], A video was shown of testimony by Marc Short, former Pence chief of staff. When the committee held its last hearing in July, Thompson said lawmakers would reconvene in September to continue laying out our findings to the American people, adding that the committee was still receiving new information every day.. July 27, 2021 The select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is holding its first hearing Tuesday. The next hearing of the January 6 committee is set to begin at 1pm EST on Thursday, 13 October. Thompson said earlier this summer that there may be an interim report in the fall. Fox News was the first network to declare Biden as having won Arizona in the 2020 election; Stirewalt testified that as the vote count wrapped up, he saw Trump's statistical chances of winning shrink to essentially zero. [315] Although the committee had already interviewed Ginni Thomas, it didn't feature any of her testimony in this public hearing. Rep. Aguilar reviewed Trump's pressure campaign on state officials, Congress, and even Vice-President Pence to take "unlawful action" in overturning the election results. Pence responded that he knew and trusted his security chief, but that he was not the one driving the car. Finally, the resolution passed by the House to create the panel instructed it to explore how the nations security apparatus got blindsided by the assault on the Capitol and to recommend ways to prevent such violence in the future. We have substantial footage of what occurred that we havent used, Thompson said of the hearing, adding that lawmakers have decided on a topic but not elaborating on what it might be. This was not addressed in the July hearings because it was first reported on August 2. PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) - A Portsmouth man was charged with crimes connected to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, and the FBI tied him to it through his shoes . [17] She testified that White House officials anticipated violence days in advance of January 6; that Trump knew supporters at the Ellipse rally were armed with weapons including AR-15s yet asked to relax security checks at his speech; and that Trump planned to join the crowd at the Capitol and became irate when the Secret Service refused his request. If theres only one, its not clear how the panel will be able to address all the questions it has raised about the events surrounding the attack. The solicitation raised some $250 million in total, nearly $100 million in the first week. The House Select Committee Investigating the January 6 Insurrection at the US Capitol worked to showcase its findings from a year's worth of work with a series of public hearings that began this summer. We just don't have the evidence. [288] During his live testimony, Ohio resident Stephen Ayres, who participated in the riot despite not being affiliated with any extremist organization, noted how Trump "got everybody riled up, told everybody to head on down" and that "We basically were just following what he said. He also testified that Arizona Congressman Andy Biggs called him on the morning of January 6, asking him to overturn the Arizona results. "[191], Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea "Shaye" Moss testified about their experiences. Here are the most notable moments from each hearing so far: Hearing 1: 'An absolute war zone' Learn More. President Trump rejected the advice of his campaign experts on election night, and instead followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani to just claim he won and insist the vote-counting stop, to falsely claim everything was fraudulent, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the panels vice chair, said at the hearing. She also revealed that Meadows and Giuliani sought pardons from the former president before he left office. "[354], According to CNN, "the committee has certainly succeeded in keeping the attention of America's political junkies. [263] According to Rep. Zoe Lofgren, "Some of the officers said that they would be coming and talking under oath [But] they have not come in" and instead, Ornato, Engel, and the unnamed driver of the president's armored vehicle have all retained legal counsel. Informations sur votre appareil et sur votre connexion Internet, y compris votre adresseIP, Navigation et recherche lors de lutilisation des sites Web et applications Yahoo. According to Time, "[it] garnered a reaction that no other had received to date. In early September, Thompson announced the committee was seeking information from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich about his communications with senior advisers to Trump in the days leading up to the attack on the Capitol. [287], In videotaped testimony, former White House officials testified about an extremist rally which was held outside the White House at Freedom Plaza the night before the U.S. Capitol attack, which Sarah Matthews described as bringing Trump a good mood. But members have left a number of clues. The fourth hearingfocused on Trump and his allies' efforts to pressure and intimidate state legislators and election officials to overturn his loss in the 2020 election and their ploy to assemble unofficial slates of Trump electors in states that voted for Biden. June 16: A top aide to Vice President Mike Pence told of the pressure campaign by Trump and conservative California lawyer John Eastman to get Pence to reject electoral votes from seven states Joe Biden won even though they knew their actions were illegal. While it remains unclear what the hearing will reveal, The Guardian reported that the committee may put forward a direct connection between Mr Trump, his close associates and far-right extremist groups. The House select committee investigating the failed insurrection at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 initially only planned to hold six public hearings, according to a draft schedule. In June 2022, the committee held highly publicized hearings intended for live broadcast. The eighth hearing revealed how the insurrection unfolded from the perspective of the White House. [234][235], Hutchinson testified that on the day before the Capitol attack, Trump directed Meadows to contact Flynn and Roger Stone, who both had extensive ties to extremist groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, leaders of which would later be indicted for seditious conspiracy for their alleged roles in the attack. In its third public hearing, the House Select Committee focused on efforts to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election. The second hearing focused on Trump's lies that the 2020 election was tainted by massive fraud and Trump's refusal to accept defeat, using testimony from former Trump officials to detail how Trump preemptively declared victory and doubled down on his election lies despite being advised otherwise. There were no votes from underage or unregistered voters. Here are the witnesses who have testified so far. There were officers on the ground. Times staff writer Sarah D. Wire contributed to this report. I've never seen anything like it." The hearings have typically lasted between two and two-and-a-half hours, with one of the committee members leading each of the hearings, but attorneys who know the sensitive material involved well conduct most of the questioning of witnesses. We are still investigating how [the deleted messages] came about and why that came about, Schiff said during his interview with CNN. [231] She said that White House counsel Pat Cipollone tried to prevent anyone from the White House from marching to the Capitol and told her personally: "Please make sure we don't go up to the Capitol, Cass. "[308] A newly disclosed January 6 text message between Donald Trump Jr. and Mark Meadows revealed that Trump Jr. wanted his father to "condemn this shit" and "go to the mattresses," a film reference which Trump Jr. claimed during video testimony he thought meant "go all in. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 10:00 AM (EST) | 538 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. Meeting: Hearings to examine advancing national security and foreign policy through sanctions, export controls, and other economic tools, including S. 168, to amend the Defense Production Act of 1950 to include the Secretary of Agriculture on the Committee on Foreign . "[309] Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney stated, "Every American must consider this Can a president who is willing to make the choices Donald Trump made during the violence of Jan. 6 ever be trusted with any position of authority in our great nation again?". The video began with scenes of roughly 200 Proud Boys leading the assault on the Capitol. That's a you know, that's a criminal that's a criminal offense. as well as other partner offers and accept our. [332], On November 2, 2022, Politico reported that they had obtained some of John Eastman's e-mail correspondences. 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