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Post by Admin on Jun 20, 2022 17:36:52 GMT
Jan. 6 Committee To Focus On State-Level Efforts To Overturn 2020 Presidential Election 3,390 views Jun 21, 2022 The House January 6 committee is set to resume its public hearings into the Capitol riot on Tuesday and will focus on efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results at the state-level. NBC News’ Julie Tsirkin has the details.
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Post by Admin on Jun 20, 2022 19:56:45 GMT
Capitol riot, Trump’s false election claims among biggest issues in primary races 3,438 views Jun 21, 2022 ABC News contributor Mike Muse discusses Trump’s influence on primary elections and the political climate as nation celebrates Juneteenth.
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Post by Admin on Jun 21, 2022 17:05:37 GMT
WATCH LIVE: Jan. 6 Committee hearings - Day 4 Fundraiser 75,130 watching now Started streaming 62 minutes ago Warning: This hearing may include footage of violence and strong language.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack will hold its fourth public hearing June 21, focused on former President Donald Trump's efforts to pressure state legislators and local election officials to change the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The hearing is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. ET on Tuesday, June 21.
The hearing comes after the committee on Thursday, June 16 laid out evidence on how Trump pressured his then- vice president, Mike Pence, to overturn the election, even as the Capitol insurrection was underway. The June 16 hearing played out testimony from several aides and close Trump allies that all testified to the pressure that the president was putting on Pence. The vice president is charged with overseeing the Electoral College vote count -- already certified by individual states -- in a joint session of Congress following a presidential election-- that is what was taking place on Jan. 6, 2021. Pence said on that day that he did not have the constitutional authority to do what the president had asked.
Members of the committee said last week they thought they had evidence to indict Trump for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which they will lay out as part of several public hearings this month.
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Post by Admin on Jun 22, 2022 0:16:20 GMT
WATCH LIVE: Jan. 6 Committee hearings - Day 5 Fundraiser 13 waiting Scheduled for Jun 24, 2022
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Post by Admin on Jun 22, 2022 17:31:44 GMT
In the end, just a handful of people decisively thwarted former President Donald Trump’s maneuvering to subvert the 2020 election. The pivotal pushback by a core few players willing to defy Trump is emerging as a central theme of the Jan. 6 select committee’s case in its first four public hearings — without those people, the panel clearly believes, the former president would have achieved his goal of overturning Joe Biden’s victory. Committee members have unspooled a case that Trump sought to corrupt state legislatures, the Justice Department and Congress in his quest to remain in power, and then sat by as a mob tried to do what his allies in government wouldn’t. And at every juncture in that complex effort, the actions of a single person or small group staved off even greater catastrophe. “The system held, but barely,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said at the select committee’s Tuesday hearing. “And the question remains, will it hold again?” Nearly every component of Trump’s plan revolved around then-Vice President Mike Pence succumbing to pressure. In Trump’s view, Pence — who presided over the counting of state electors on Jan. 6, 2021 — could single-handedly reject Biden’s electors or postpone the count altogether and let GOP state legislatures approve pro-Trump electors instead. Pence, relying on the advice of his counsel Greg Jacob, balked at Trump’s strategy. Jacob and other White House lawyers repeatedly told Trump the scheme was illegal. Even that could’ve gone differently. Jacob has also made clear that there was one scenario in which Pence might have been obligated to flip the outcome: if any state legislatures had actually pulled the trigger and adopted Trump electors. In that scenario — where a state legislature and governor have certified competing slates, with one saying Biden won and the other declaring the state for Trump — Jacob said it would be reasonable to defer to the text of the Constitution, which gives state legislatures the ultimate power to choose electors.
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