Promising never-seen video, new audio and testimony, the U.S. congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol begins televised hearings beginning tonight.
The panel of 7 Democrats, 2 Republicans present findings in series of hearings beginning tonightSupporters of then-U.S. President Donald Trump storm the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021. The House committee investigating the riot will look into the planning and financing of a rally that descended into chaos, among other topics.
It will reconstruct how Trump refused to concede the 2020 election, spread false claims of voter fraud and orchestrated an unprecedented public and private campaign to remain in power up to and including the day on which vice-president Mike Pence performed his ceremonial role in certifying the election.On Thursday night, the panel is expected to present wrenching accounts from police who engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the mob, including testimony from U.S.
The committee divided the investigation into different subject teams that are expected to provide structure to the hearings. Other subjects of the investigation include those who organized and financed the rally on Jan. 6, as well as social media disinformation and the current state of domestic extremism in the U.S.The committee has conducted more than 1,000 depositions and interviews, with most subjects not known.
Peter Navarro, former trade adviser to president Donald Trump, complained bitterly to reporters on June 3 after being briefly jailed that day after an indictment on two counts of contempt of Congress was handed down.While there are two Republicans on the nine-member panel — Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger — overall, there is not the bipartisan spirit seen in the 9/11 Commission and Watergate hearings.
Congress doesn't have the power to press charges, but it could make criminal referrals based on what they unearth to the Justice Department — perhaps even for Trump. Such a referral would put Attorney General Merrick Garland and his prosecutors on the spot.The panel is expected to produce a report by year's end. If the November midterms see the House flipped to Republican control, it is highly likely that inquiries into the Trump administration and Jan. 6 will end.
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