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Post by Admin on Jun 13, 2022 17:01:21 GMT
LIVE: January 6th Committee Holds Public Hearing On 2021 Capitol Attack | NBC News 25,761 watching now Started streaming 2 hours ago The second public hearing held by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot will have witness testimony and video footage surrounding last year's attack on the Capitol.
Monday marks the second day of public hearings for the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The committee said it will focus on establishing that then-President Donald Trump knowingly spread the lies about the 2020 election that ultimately inspired his supporters to lay siege to the Capitol in an attempt to block the formalization of Joe Biden's victory.
Witness Bill Stepien, former Trump campaign manager, had a family emergency and will no longer testify – his wife went into labor — but the committee played clips of his recorded testimony in which he paints a picture of how he and other campaign officials attempted to prepare Trump for an uncertain outcome on election night, and urged him not to declare victory. (Trump ignored that advice.)
The committee laid out the volume of Trump advisers who were telling him that he had lost the election. In the weeks that followed Biden clinching the presidency, Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, told former Attorney General William Barr that aides were "working on" getting Trump to stop pushing election falsehoods.
Vice chair Liz Cheney described former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani as "apparently inebriated" when he was advising Trump. The committee played video of advisor Jason Miller testifying that Giuliani was "intoxicated" on election night. Kushner testified he told Trump not to listen to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's advice.
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Post by Admin on Jun 13, 2022 17:45:04 GMT
Former Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt testifies before Jan. 6 committee 3,835 views Jun 14, 2022 Stirewalt recalls how the cable news network reached the conclusion that Arizona would be called for Biden.
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Post by Admin on Jun 13, 2022 18:42:45 GMT
WATCH LIVE: Jan. 6 Committee hearings - Day 3 6 waiting Scheduled for Jun 15, 2022 The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack will hold its third public hearing June 15, focused on former President Donald Trump's efforts to replace then-Attorney General Bill Barr, who refused to support the president's false claims of election fraud.
The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ET on Wednesday, June 15.
Barr resigned in December 2020, weeks before the insurrection at the Capitol. In Barr's closed-door testimony to the committee, video of which has been played throughout the hearings this month, he said that he told the president multiple times that he saw “absolutely zero evidence” of fraud. He also said he told Trump that the claims, particularly of "rigged" voting machines, were doing a “great disservice” to the country, and in a separate conversation reminded him that his office was not an extension of the president’s legal team.
Members of the committee said this week they thought they had evidence to indict Trump for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election. That is part of the argument they are making in several public hearings this month. Another hearing this week, scheduled for June 16, will focus on Trump's pressure on Pence to reject Congress' certification of electoral college votes.
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Post by Admin on Jun 13, 2022 23:42:18 GMT
New Trump statement “bogus nonsense” says Jan. 6 committee member 1,165 views Jun 14, 2022 Former President Donald Trump released a statement attacking the House select committee investigating the January 6 riots. Committee member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) responded to Trump’s words after CNN’s Erin Burnett read them live on air. #CNN #News
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Post by Admin on Jun 14, 2022 6:14:02 GMT
Top GOP attorney: Trump campaign did not produce any credible claims of fraud 285,064 views Jun 14, 2022 Top Republican election attorney Benjamin Ginsberg testifies in the January 6 Special Committee hearing, discussing the credibility of the Trump campaign's election fraud claims. #CNN #News
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