What the committee has learned about the financial story behind the Jan. Where did the money come from and where did it go? The efforts have also drawn the attention of prosecutors in multiple states. Giuliani also has testified before the committee. The committee also obtained details that then-Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani pressured state lawmakers to reject election results in Michigan. For example, Finchem said he had to deliver 'evidence' to then-Vice President Mike Pence to postpone the certification of the election results. The effort continued up to the day of the attack. In some cases, state officials helped organized events where members of Trump's legal team and others shared false claims of voter fraud. Committee demands for testimony and records were also issued to the Republican nominee to be Pennsylvania's next governor, Doug Mastriano, and the GOP candidate Mark Finchem, who is running to be the next secretary of state in Arizona. The subpoenas included Kelli Ward, the chair of the Arizona Republican Party, in addition to two GOP political candidates in swing states. The committee issued at least 20 publicly announced subpoenas tied to a wide-ranging scheme across several states to submit a slate of fake electors to Congress as a way of altering the results of the 2020 presidential election in the hopes of keeping Trump office. These will be video clips of taped depositions. They've also subpoenaed documents, including the president's daily schedule and phone log.Īccording to select committee aides, Thursday's hearing will feature testimony from those inside the White House and the Trump campaign, including family members. They have worked to fill in the gap through interviews with multiple witnesses, including Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner. Several committee members point to 187 minutes that afternoon where it's unclear what the president was doing as a key focus of their investigation. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.' Trump suggested he would walk with his supporters to the Capitol but instead returned to the White House. Hours earlier he told his supporters on the Ellipse outside the White House 'we fight like hell.

The rioters threatened lawmakers, and the vice president, chanting to 'hang Mike Pence,' and there was a period of time with no response from Trump. What were President Trump, his friends, staff, and family members doing?Ĭheney has repeatedly raised questions about the lack of information about what President Trump was doing at the White House when violent protestors breached the Capitol. Here are key areas the committee will discuss during the hearings. While the committee has the power to make legislative recommendations, it cannot bring any criminal charges and can only make a criminal referral to the Justice Department. Some members have already indicated they back changes to the Electoral Count Act, the law governing the process for Congress to count and certify electoral votes. The committee is expected to issue a voluminous report with recommendations in September. Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wy., will make opening statements and the panel will also show videotaped depositions from senior Trump White House, campaign, and administration officials. Capitol police officer and the first law enforcement member injured by rioters on the West Front plaza, and Nick Quested, a filmmaker who accompanied those who breached the building and captured the chaotic scene. Thursday's hearing, the first of six, will feature two live witnesses - Caroline Edwards, a U.S.

The majority-Democrat committee, charged with investigating the insurrection that pro-Trump extremists hoped would help overturn the 2020 election, has interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses, including members of former President Donald Trump's family and administration, as well as law enforcement officials and aides who were under siege for hours on Jan. We're in the business of trying to communicate to the American people the gravity and the immensity of these events.' Pressed about the risk of overhyping the news, given that many details have already leaked out, committee member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., told reporters this week: 'We're not in the business of entertainment. Some committee members have teased that there will be 'bombshells' and that the public will be surprised by what is revealed. EST, promising to weave together a narrative from the findings of its year-long probe with 'previously unseen material' about the attack on the Capitol. The House select committee on January 6 holds its first hearing on Thursday, in prime time at 8 p.m.

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