House Select Committee to Investigate January 6 attack on US Capitol will hold first of least six public hearings in rare prime-time session thursday evening before show American public what did they learn about the rebellion and former President Donald Trump role.
Chairman of the Committee, Rep. Benny Thompson, said last a week what lawmakers are planning use combination of witnesses, exhibits, things that we have through dozens of of thousands of we have exhibits […] looked, as well as hundreds of witnesses whom we have deposed or just talked to in general.”
CBS news will broadcast hearing as a special report on all CBS stations starting at 8:00 pm are hosted by “CBS Evening News” host Nora O’Donnell. She will be joined CBS News chief political analyst John Dickerson; major elections and campaign correspondent Robert Costa; Chief White House Correspondent Nancy Cordes; main national affairs as well as justice correspondent Jeff Peges; and Congressional Correspondents Nicole Killion and Scott McFarlane.
This was stated by the assistants of the committee. first hearing will be treated like introductory statement, with Committee members share their initial findings about attack. They will also preview in next hearing.
“We will disclose new details showing that violence on January 6th was result of coordinated, manystep efforts to overthrow results of 2020 election and stop transmission of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden and indeed that President Donald Trump was at the center of these efforts,” said an aide to the elected committee. – We will remind people of what’s happened on that day. We’ll bring an American people back to reality of that violence and remind them just how it was terrible.”
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Committee plans reveal a lot of new material”, including previously unknown documents, video and audio that he received. The hearing will feature both witnesses, as well as tape-recorded testimonies of witnesses questioned by the commission during the investigation. These witnesses include Trump White House officials, senior Trump administration officials, Trump campaign officials and trump family members.
The committee has interviewed more more than 1000 people gathered more more than 140,000 documents and received almost 500 “meaningful” tips on its tip line. Participants spent almost year familiarization with documents and hearing testimonies people starting from former Trump’s Capitol police officials are accused of rioting.
Thompson and Vice Chairman Liz Cheney will chair Thursday’s hearing, committee aides said. The assistant said that Thompson”place January 6 in wider historical context and talk about what an aberration that day was in in history of American Democracy”. Committee aides said there would likely be opening statements by Thompson and Cheney, followed by live witness’s testimonies.
The Committee will also give legislative advice on how to prevent another attack from what is happening.
panel It has also planned next two public hearings for Monday, June 13 at 10:00 AM ET and Wednesday, June 15 at 10:00 AM ET.
J. Michael Luttig, former judge on US court of Appeals for The Fourth District confirmed to CBS News that it has accepted an invitation to speak to the committee. next a week. “I will be honored to testify before the committee on January 6th,” he told CBS News.
greg jacob, who served as chief counsel to former Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of Georgia of State Brad Raffensperger will also appear at subsequent hearings.
Cheney, one of only two Republicans on Committee, said “CBS Sunday Morning” she is sure that they found how the committee will make the American people wake up up and pay attention.
“You know we don’t in the situation when former President Trump made some sense of remorse for what happened,” Cheney said. – We in fact in situation where he continues use even more extreme language to be honest than language what caused in attack. So that, people should pay attention. People must look and they must understand how easy our democratic system could fall apart if we don’t protect it.”
selection committee announced Tuesday night he planned call two witnesses on Thursday: Nick Quested, director who followed the proud boys on January 6, and Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, first law enforcement officer wounded by rioters who stormed the Capitol grounds. Edwards suffered a head injury injury and could not return to work has since attacked, according to the committee.
Polled most likely face questions about the footage he filmed both on in the days leading up until January 6 and on day of in attack, when he followed group of Proud boys during the storming of the Capitol. Leader and four members of which is far right group are facing accusations of seditious conspiracy.
James Goldston, who worked for nearly two decades at ABC News as executive producer and eventual president of in news division helps the committee create a presentation that is expected to include audio and video elements.
Committee member Rep. Jamie Ruskin told CBS News “Red & Blue” in Let the committee split material up into chapters “which will allow for unfolding of narration.”
The committee consists of nine people. of seven Democrats and two Republicans. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi created committee, despite Republican resistance to investigate the origins of in attackwhich the took place after then-President Trump urged his supporters to “walk downto the US Capitol while the Electoral College votes were counted. “If you not fight like hell, you won’t have a country anymore,” he said. people died, including a Capitol police officer.
Democratic control House of Representatives votes to impeach Trump one a week later, but he was acquitted by the Senate.
Several of Trump’s closest supporters appeared before the committee, including his children Ivanka Trump as well as Donald Trump Jr. as well as son-in-Law Jared Kushner. But others refused to obey with agendas, including former main of employees Mark Meadows and former advisor Steve Bannon, who was accused with contempt of Congress for refusal to obey with subpoena.
Zach Hudak contributed to his report.
