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January 6 hearings: What to expect as focus turns to Trump election lies
Monday marks the second day of public hearings for the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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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 then-President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election that inspired his supporters to lay siege to the Capitol in an attempt to block the formalization of President Joe Biden's victory. The panel is seeking to build on its prime-time presentation last week of never-before-seen video of interviews with Trump’s inner circle and graphic images of the attack.
The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. ET. Catch up quickly on the first hearing here.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-hearing-committee-takeaways-day-one-rcna32656
Two members of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot said Sunday that they've gathered enough evidence for the Justice Department to explore an indictment against Trump.
"I would like to see the Justice Department investigate any credible allegation of criminal activity on the part of Donald Trump or anyone else," Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said on ABC News’ “This Week.” "They need to be investigated if there’s credible evidence, which I think there is."
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said the committee has laid out in various legal pleadings "the criminal statutes that we think have been violated," adding that it also has evidence that Trump knew Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
"I think we can prove to any reasonable, open-minded person that Donald Trump absolutely knew because he was surrounded by lawyers," Raskin said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” "He continues to spread it to this very day. He continues to foist that propaganda on his followers."
One person more than any other set in motion the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the committee investigating the riot argued at its first public hearing Thursday. And that person is Donald Trump.
He sparked the riot at the Capitol and nearly shredded American democracy in pursuit of power, the House Jan. 6 committee contended in what served as the opening argument in a weekslong effort to make a case to the public.