I thought about this a couple months ago but it’s not going to happen. Republicans fuck their selves with the Abortion decision.
JAN 6 COMMITTEE FINAL PUBLIC HEARING MONDAY 12/19- They're making a list & Liz is checking it twice, criminal referrals on the way, MERRY XMAS BITCHES
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I thought about this a couple months ago but it’s not going to happen. Republicans fuck their selves with the Abortion decision.
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Jan. 6 committee chairman says panel has 'started producing information' for DOJ
Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., listens as Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks on Tuesday, July 12, 2022.
(CNN)Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi said Tuesday that the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, has "started producing information" for the Department of Justice relevant to its request for transcripts of interviews the committee has conducted.
"We have started producing information about who we have interviewed and that kind of thing pursuant to what they have requested. We are in the process, negotiating how that information will be viewed, whether it's an in camera review, or what," the panel's chairman told CNN.
Thompson said the request from the department was to look at the committee's transcripts and "that's the spirit in which we plan to work with them."
In May, the Justice Department asked the committee to hand over transcripts of the panel's witness depositions as part of its investigation.
The committee did not initially agree to the request because members felt protective of its work. But over time, the committee warmed up to developing a process with the department.
Last month, Thompson said the committee was hoping to establish a procedure with the DOJ at some point in July, once it finished its hearings, to help the department with its investigation.
"We are moving forward," Thompson said at the time when asked to characterize the talks. "We will probably do something in the month of July, but it probably will not be before we complete the hearings. We'll establish a procedure to look at some of the material."
Asked then if the committee would share its interview transcripts, the Mississippi Democrat said, "No, it won't be a shared transcript. We will keep the documents, you know they are our product. Now if they want to come and have an opportunity to sit and review them and that kind of thing, I think we can work that out."
Thompson said at the time that the panel would not start the process until July because "what we are trying to do right now is work through the hearings. And it's anticipated if we can complete the hearings, that will free up staff and other things to accommodate that request."
The committee on Tuesday held its seventh hearing since the public events began last month.
The latest fleshed out the links between former President Donald Trump and the far-right extremist groups that were at the vanguard of the violent effort to stop the transition of power and keep him in office, despite his 2020 election loss.
The committee walked through snippets of witness depositions, court documents, previously unseen emails and other materials to make the case that Trump coyly courted these militants and saw them as his troops on the ground to pressure Congress to overturn the election results.
"All of these efforts would converge and explode on January 6," Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat and committee member who led parts of Tuesday's hearing, said during his opening statements.
Jan. 6 committee chairman says panel has 'started producing information' for DOJ - CNNPolitics
Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., listens as Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks on Tuesday, July 12, 2022.
(CNN)Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi said Tuesday that the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, has "started producing information" for the Department of Justice relevant to its request for transcripts of interviews the committee has conducted.
"We have started producing information about who we have interviewed and that kind of thing pursuant to what they have requested. We are in the process, negotiating how that information will be viewed, whether it's an in camera review, or what," the panel's chairman told CNN.
Thompson said the request from the department was to look at the committee's transcripts and "that's the spirit in which we plan to work with them."
In May, the Justice Department asked the committee to hand over transcripts of the panel's witness depositions as part of its investigation.
The committee did not initially agree to the request because members felt protective of its work. But over time, the committee warmed up to developing a process with the department.
Last month, Thompson said the committee was hoping to establish a procedure with the DOJ at some point in July, once it finished its hearings, to help the department with its investigation.
"We are moving forward," Thompson said at the time when asked to characterize the talks. "We will probably do something in the month of July, but it probably will not be before we complete the hearings. We'll establish a procedure to look at some of the material."
Asked then if the committee would share its interview transcripts, the Mississippi Democrat said, "No, it won't be a shared transcript. We will keep the documents, you know they are our product. Now if they want to come and have an opportunity to sit and review them and that kind of thing, I think we can work that out."
Thompson said at the time that the panel would not start the process until July because "what we are trying to do right now is work through the hearings. And it's anticipated if we can complete the hearings, that will free up staff and other things to accommodate that request."
The committee on Tuesday held its seventh hearing since the public events began last month.
The latest fleshed out the links between former President Donald Trump and the far-right extremist groups that were at the vanguard of the violent effort to stop the transition of power and keep him in office, despite his 2020 election loss.
The committee walked through snippets of witness depositions, court documents, previously unseen emails and other materials to make the case that Trump coyly courted these militants and saw them as his troops on the ground to pressure Congress to overturn the election results.
"All of these efforts would converge and explode on January 6," Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat and committee member who led parts of Tuesday's hearing, said during his opening statements.
Jan. 6 committee chairman says panel has 'started producing information' for DOJ - CNNPolitics
That's because it was run by the RepubliCacs, desperate to find anything to smear the Democrats with...... this whole operation has been run methodically and efficiently, and has produced results
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More evidence... more people willing to come forward..... "have shared more"....
Jan 6 committee heard more evidence from earlier witnesses after Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA), a member of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, revealed that since former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson appeared in a public hearing, more evidence has been gathered by witnesses willing to come forward.
Speaking to Raw Story, Aguilar explained that not only have they had more people willing to come forward, but "people who we had previously heard from have shared more."
He explained that they're continuing to gather evidence, adding kudos to the committee staff members working diligently to collect this additional information.
Rep. Liz Cheney's (R-WY) revealed Tuesday that former President Donald Trump called another witness, even after it was revealed others were intimidated by third-party individuals in Trump's circle. This could be an indication that Trump's lawyers don't have a hold on him the way that they thought. Aguilar didn't get the sense that Trump's lawyers ever had a hold on someone like Pat Cipollone the way that it appears they did on Hutchinson, who had Trump's PAC paying for her lawyer until she got a new one.
"We intend to share more," said Aguilar. "The scale and the scope, we're still working through. But, we want it to be something that people can digest and understand and find value in helping us protect democracy."
Exclusive: Jan. 6 committee heard more evidence from earlier witnesses after Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism
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Jan 6 committee heard more evidence from earlier witnesses after Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA), a member of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, revealed that since former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson appeared in a public hearing, more evidence has been gathered by witnesses willing to come forward.
Speaking to Raw Story, Aguilar explained that not only have they had more people willing to come forward, but "people who we had previously heard from have shared more."
He explained that they're continuing to gather evidence, adding kudos to the committee staff members working diligently to collect this additional information.
Rep. Liz Cheney's (R-WY) revealed Tuesday that former President Donald Trump called another witness, even after it was revealed others were intimidated by third-party individuals in Trump's circle. This could be an indication that Trump's lawyers don't have a hold on him the way that they thought. Aguilar didn't get the sense that Trump's lawyers ever had a hold on someone like Pat Cipollone the way that it appears they did on Hutchinson, who had Trump's PAC paying for her lawyer until she got a new one.
"We intend to share more," said Aguilar. "The scale and the scope, we're still working through. But, we want it to be something that people can digest and understand and find value in helping us protect democracy."
Exclusive: Jan. 6 committee heard more evidence from earlier witnesses after Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism
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This fool simp is already under the bus, and thinks that the warm oil dripping on his head is his sweat...
Trump: "I didn't know what Mark was doing a lot of the time."
Exclusive: Trump’s Lawyers Think Mark Meadows Is Going Down
The Jan. 6 Committee is probing the former chief of staff’s finances, Rolling Stone has learned, adding to a long list of legal headaches
Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows walks along the South Lawn
As she opened the House Jan. 6 committee hearing Tuesday, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney ticked through a list of names of people Donald Trump’s legal team have attempted to pin the blame for the Capitol attack, naming the president’s lawyers, MAGA-friend lawmakers, and others.
Mark Meadows, Trump’s former White House chief of staff, didn’t make the list — yet.
Trump’s inner circle increasingly views Meadows as a likely fall guy for the former president’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Members of Trump’s legal team are actively planning certain strategies around Meadows’ downfall — including possible criminal charges. Trump has himself begun the process of distancing himself from some of his onetime senior aide’s alleged actions around Jan. 6.
Meadows’ already bleak legal prospects could get even worse. Rolling Stone has learned that the Jan. 6 committee has been quietly probing his financial dealings, and any new revelations would add to an already long list of unethical and potential illegal actions he’s accused of taking on behalf of Donald Trump.
“Everyone is strategizing around the likelihood that Mark is in a lot of trouble,” says a lawyer close to the former president. “Everyone who knows what they’re doing, anyway.”
This reporting is based on Rolling Stone’s conversations with eight sources familiar with the matter, each of whom is still working in Trump’s political orbit, on his legal defense, or in Republican circles in regular contact with the ex-president. The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly discuss sensitive matters. A spokesperson for Meadows declined to comment.
For Meadows, it doesn’t help his case that he’s loathed by any number of his fellow Trumpworld veterans, some of whom view him as a two-faced man prone to double-dealing and simply telling people what they want to hear. Some of Meadows’ ex-colleagues and staff in the Trump administration continue to hold grudges against him, partly because they see him as responsible for putting their lives and health in danger when he oversaw a period of rapid coronavirus spread in Trump’s White House towards the end of the presidency. And the former president himself is not long on loyalty, particularly when facing legal peril of his own. Trump’s team has already explored possible legal gameplans about what would happen if Meadows faced additional criminal charges stemming from the events surrounding Jan. 6, according to three people familiar with the situation. And those discussions have at times focused on how to insulate Trump, should any significant charges against foot soldiers like Meadows actually materialize.
Indeed, in recent weeks, Trump himself has casually dropped into conversations with some of his longtime associates that he didn’t always know what Meadows was doing during the months leading up to the riot or after his time in office, two sources with knowledge of the matter tell Rolling Stone. (When Trump finds himself backed into a corner or a moment of legal jeopardy, he will often claim — however flimsily — that he barely knew a top aide who was doing his bidding, or that he didn’t know what his own personal lawyers were doing for him.)
Furthermore, investigators on Capitol Hill have shown a willingness to investigate Meadows’ private dealings, beyond the scope of how he directly aided Trump during his anti-democratic and violent crusade to cling to power. According to two sources familiar with the matter, the Jan. 6 committee has asked some witnesses specific questions about Meadows’ financial arrangements with other Trump advisers who sought to overturn President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory. The line of questioning made it clear to witnesses that the committee members were searching for signs of legally dubious payments. (The congressional Jan. 6 investigation is of course separate from the Biden Justice Department’s probe, though the House select committee does have the power to make criminal referrals to the feds.)
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Trump: "I didn't know what Mark was doing a lot of the time."
Exclusive: Trump’s Lawyers Think Mark Meadows Is Going Down
The Jan. 6 Committee is probing the former chief of staff’s finances, Rolling Stone has learned, adding to a long list of legal headaches
Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows walks along the South Lawn
As she opened the House Jan. 6 committee hearing Tuesday, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney ticked through a list of names of people Donald Trump’s legal team have attempted to pin the blame for the Capitol attack, naming the president’s lawyers, MAGA-friend lawmakers, and others.
Mark Meadows, Trump’s former White House chief of staff, didn’t make the list — yet.
Trump’s inner circle increasingly views Meadows as a likely fall guy for the former president’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Members of Trump’s legal team are actively planning certain strategies around Meadows’ downfall — including possible criminal charges. Trump has himself begun the process of distancing himself from some of his onetime senior aide’s alleged actions around Jan. 6.
Meadows’ already bleak legal prospects could get even worse. Rolling Stone has learned that the Jan. 6 committee has been quietly probing his financial dealings, and any new revelations would add to an already long list of unethical and potential illegal actions he’s accused of taking on behalf of Donald Trump.
“Everyone is strategizing around the likelihood that Mark is in a lot of trouble,” says a lawyer close to the former president. “Everyone who knows what they’re doing, anyway.”
This reporting is based on Rolling Stone’s conversations with eight sources familiar with the matter, each of whom is still working in Trump’s political orbit, on his legal defense, or in Republican circles in regular contact with the ex-president. The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly discuss sensitive matters. A spokesperson for Meadows declined to comment.
For Meadows, it doesn’t help his case that he’s loathed by any number of his fellow Trumpworld veterans, some of whom view him as a two-faced man prone to double-dealing and simply telling people what they want to hear. Some of Meadows’ ex-colleagues and staff in the Trump administration continue to hold grudges against him, partly because they see him as responsible for putting their lives and health in danger when he oversaw a period of rapid coronavirus spread in Trump’s White House towards the end of the presidency. And the former president himself is not long on loyalty, particularly when facing legal peril of his own. Trump’s team has already explored possible legal gameplans about what would happen if Meadows faced additional criminal charges stemming from the events surrounding Jan. 6, according to three people familiar with the situation. And those discussions have at times focused on how to insulate Trump, should any significant charges against foot soldiers like Meadows actually materialize.
Indeed, in recent weeks, Trump himself has casually dropped into conversations with some of his longtime associates that he didn’t always know what Meadows was doing during the months leading up to the riot or after his time in office, two sources with knowledge of the matter tell Rolling Stone. (When Trump finds himself backed into a corner or a moment of legal jeopardy, he will often claim — however flimsily — that he barely knew a top aide who was doing his bidding, or that he didn’t know what his own personal lawyers were doing for him.)
Furthermore, investigators on Capitol Hill have shown a willingness to investigate Meadows’ private dealings, beyond the scope of how he directly aided Trump during his anti-democratic and violent crusade to cling to power. According to two sources familiar with the matter, the Jan. 6 committee has asked some witnesses specific questions about Meadows’ financial arrangements with other Trump advisers who sought to overturn President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory. The line of questioning made it clear to witnesses that the committee members were searching for signs of legally dubious payments. (The congressional Jan. 6 investigation is of course separate from the Biden Justice Department’s probe, though the House select committee does have the power to make criminal referrals to the feds.)
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tell the truth, that there was no ketchup on
the wall that's all!!!"
First on CNN: Trump tried to call a member of the White House support staff talking with January 6 committee, sources say
(CNN)Former President Donald Trump tried to call a member of the White House support staff who was talking to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.
The support staffer was not someone who routinely communicated with the former President and was concerned about the contact, according to the sources, and informed their attorney.
The call was made after former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified publicly to the committee. The White House staffer was in a position to corroborate part of what Hutchinson had said under oath, according to the sources.
CNN was told the position of the witness Trump tried to call, but not the person's name. Details about the witness Trump tried to contact have not been previously reported.
The initial revelation about Trump's phone call was made in a dramatic moment at the end of this week's hearing by committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney. Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, revealed that Trump "tried to call" an unnamed witness in the committee's investigation. She said that witness "declined to answer or respond" to Trump's call and instead alerted their lawyer. The committee has since supplied that information to the Department of Justice.
"We will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously," Cheney said Tuesday during the hearing.
A spokesperson for the House select committee declined to comment. A Trump spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request to comment.
Rep. Pete Aguilar, a California Democrat who serves on the committee, told CNN on Tuesday that the individual Trump tried to call has been speaking with the panel.
"Trump himself had called someone who has been talking with us," Aguilar said.
A source familiar with the panel's investigation added that the committee has spoken to the person Trump tried to call, but not as part of a deposition.
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I keep telling you guys they are on Trump ass and he is getting mighty nervous basically what he did in this article was witness tampering.
"I just wanted to make sure that they were going to
tell the truth, that there was no ketchup on
the wall that's all!!!"
First on CNN: Trump tried to call a member of the White House support staff talking with January 6 committee, sources say
(CNN)Former President Donald Trump tried to call a member of the White House support staff who was talking to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.
The support staffer was not someone who routinely communicated with the former President and was concerned about the contact, according to the sources, and informed their attorney.
The call was made after former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified publicly to the committee. The White House staffer was in a position to corroborate part of what Hutchinson had said under oath, according to the sources.
CNN was told the position of the witness Trump tried to call, but not the person's name. Details about the witness Trump tried to contact have not been previously reported.
The initial revelation about Trump's phone call was made in a dramatic moment at the end of this week's hearing by committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney. Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, revealed that Trump "tried to call" an unnamed witness in the committee's investigation. She said that witness "declined to answer or respond" to Trump's call and instead alerted their lawyer. The committee has since supplied that information to the Department of Justice.
"We will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously," Cheney said Tuesday during the hearing.
A spokesperson for the House select committee declined to comment. A Trump spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request to comment.
Rep. Pete Aguilar, a California Democrat who serves on the committee, told CNN on Tuesday that the individual Trump tried to call has been speaking with the panel.
"Trump himself had called someone who has been talking with us," Aguilar said.
A source familiar with the panel's investigation added that the committee has spoken to the person Trump tried to call, but not as part of a deposition.
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This would be illegal for anyone except him. He'll have an army of attorneys explain twelve different ways why it wasn't what we all know it was, witness tampering. Nothing will happen, cause the DOJ don't want that smoke.
"I just wanted to make sure that they were going to
tell the truth, that there was no ketchup on
the wall that's all!!!"
First on CNN: Trump tried to call a member of the White House support staff talking with January 6 committee, sources say
(CNN)Former President Donald Trump tried to call a member of the White House support staff who was talking to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.
The support staffer was not someone who routinely communicated with the former President and was concerned about the contact, according to the sources, and informed their attorney.
The call was made after former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified publicly to the committee. The White House staffer was in a position to corroborate part of what Hutchinson had said under oath, according to the sources.
CNN was told the position of the witness Trump tried to call, but not the person's name. Details about the witness Trump tried to contact have not been previously reported.
The initial revelation about Trump's phone call was made in a dramatic moment at the end of this week's hearing by committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney. Cheney, a Wyoming Republican, revealed that Trump "tried to call" an unnamed witness in the committee's investigation. She said that witness "declined to answer or respond" to Trump's call and instead alerted their lawyer. The committee has since supplied that information to the Department of Justice.
"We will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously," Cheney said Tuesday during the hearing.
A spokesperson for the House select committee declined to comment. A Trump spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request to comment.
Rep. Pete Aguilar, a California Democrat who serves on the committee, told CNN on Tuesday that the individual Trump tried to call has been speaking with the panel.
"Trump himself had called someone who has been talking with us," Aguilar said.
A source familiar with the panel's investigation added that the committee has spoken to the person Trump tried to call, but not as part of a deposition.
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Trump tried to call a member of the White House support staff talking with January 6 committee, sources say - CNNPolitics
I am going to bring this back up next week just watch and see
Former Overstock CEO To Meet With Jan. 6 Committee on Friday in person
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The Jan. 6 committee won't rule out more hearings this summer
New revelations, particularly in the wake of bombshell testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, have likely pushed the panel's conclusion to the fall.
House Jan. 6 committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., speaks to reporters after the committee’s hearing Tuesday.
WASHINGTON — House Jan. 6 committee Chairman Bennie Thompson said Wednesday he hopes next week’s prime-time hearing will be the last in its series of high-profile televised presentations.
But Thompson, D-Miss., isn’t ruling out holding more this summer, saying new evidence uncovered by the committee could prompt additional surprise hearings like the one last month that featured key witness Cassidy Hutchinson.
Asked whether he could promise that the July 21 public hearing — the panel’s eighth this year — will be the last, Thompson told reporters: “No, I can’t. I’m hoping it is, but something could come up, just like the Hutchinson situation that warranted what we felt was an immediate hearing.”
Another member, Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., also would not rule out additional hearings this summer, saying, “It depends on where the evidence takes us.”
Aguilar and others investigating the attack on Jan. 6, 2021, view Hutchinson’s bombshell public testimony — that President Donald Trump knew the supporters he sent to the Capitol that day were armed, that he refused to act as rioters stormed the Capitol and that he approved of their chanting that they wanted to hang Vice President Mike Pence — as a critical turning point in their yearlong inquiry that could lead to further revelations.
Panel members argue her damning, fly-on-the-wall testimony turned up the pressure on other Trump officials, compelling greater cooperation from former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and perhaps others.
“The Cassidy Hutchinson piece was newsworthy and important,” Aguilar told NBC News on Wednesday, “and to the extent that that has led or will continue to lead to people coming forward and sharing what they know about Jan. 6, that will guide the decisions that we make” about future hearings.
Aguilar declined to get into details about whether any future hearings might come in August — when lawmakers typically leave Washington for vacations or the campaign trail — or in September. “That’s a lot of hypotheticals,” he said.
Speaking to reporters after Tuesday’s hearing, Thompson said the committee will soon need to shift from “hearing, fact-finding mode to producing a document to return to Congress.”
The final congressional report on Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election, which culminated in the deadly attack on the Capitol, will come sometime in the "early fall," he said, in late September or October, before the November midterm elections.
And Thompson confirmed that the committee is likely to hold a public hearing when it releases the sweeping report, which is expected to include many details not covered in the hearings, as well as policy recommendations to try to prevent future disruptions in the peaceful transfer of power.
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The Jan. 6 committee won't rule out more hearings this summer
New revelations, particularly in the wake of bombshell testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, have likely pushed the panel's conclusion to the fall.
House Jan. 6 committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., speaks to reporters after the committee’s hearing Tuesday.
WASHINGTON — House Jan. 6 committee Chairman Bennie Thompson said Wednesday he hopes next week’s prime-time hearing will be the last in its series of high-profile televised presentations.
But Thompson, D-Miss., isn’t ruling out holding more this summer, saying new evidence uncovered by the committee could prompt additional surprise hearings like the one last month that featured key witness Cassidy Hutchinson.
Asked whether he could promise that the July 21 public hearing — the panel’s eighth this year — will be the last, Thompson told reporters: “No, I can’t. I’m hoping it is, but something could come up, just like the Hutchinson situation that warranted what we felt was an immediate hearing.”
Another member, Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., also would not rule out additional hearings this summer, saying, “It depends on where the evidence takes us.”
Aguilar and others investigating the attack on Jan. 6, 2021, view Hutchinson’s bombshell public testimony — that President Donald Trump knew the supporters he sent to the Capitol that day were armed, that he refused to act as rioters stormed the Capitol and that he approved of their chanting that they wanted to hang Vice President Mike Pence — as a critical turning point in their yearlong inquiry that could lead to further revelations.
Panel members argue her damning, fly-on-the-wall testimony turned up the pressure on other Trump officials, compelling greater cooperation from former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and perhaps others.
“The Cassidy Hutchinson piece was newsworthy and important,” Aguilar told NBC News on Wednesday, “and to the extent that that has led or will continue to lead to people coming forward and sharing what they know about Jan. 6, that will guide the decisions that we make” about future hearings.
Aguilar declined to get into details about whether any future hearings might come in August — when lawmakers typically leave Washington for vacations or the campaign trail — or in September. “That’s a lot of hypotheticals,” he said.
Speaking to reporters after Tuesday’s hearing, Thompson said the committee will soon need to shift from “hearing, fact-finding mode to producing a document to return to Congress.”
The final congressional report on Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election, which culminated in the deadly attack on the Capitol, will come sometime in the "early fall," he said, in late September or October, before the November midterm elections.
And Thompson confirmed that the committee is likely to hold a public hearing when it releases the sweeping report, which is expected to include many details not covered in the hearings, as well as policy recommendations to try to prevent future disruptions in the peaceful transfer of power.
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They did a good job the presentation was easy to follow and they put the pieces together very clearly.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger says the January 6 committee is considering asking Trump and Pence for testimony
Kinzinger told the Wall Street Journal about the committee's discussions ahead of a meeting.The committee has held seven hearings so far featuring testimony from Trump officials.
The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack is considering asking former Vice President Mike Pence and former President Donald Trump for testimony, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a committee member, told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
Ahead of a committee meeting, Kinzinger told the news outlet that the panel is weighing whether to subpoena Pence to testify. The committee could also seek a written interview from the former vice president, Kinzinger told the WSJ.
Besides Pence, the committee is also considering whether to request testimony from Trump himself, Kinzinger told the Journal.
Secret Service agents rushed to evacuate Pence out of the Senate chamber, where he was presiding over the certification of then President-elect Joe Biden's 2020 victory, to a secure location during the riot on January 6, 2021.
Trump, at the time, had pressured Pence to toss out Electoral College votes in battleground states that Biden won in an effort to overturn the results. Pence rejected his bid, arguing that he had no constitutional authority to do so.
The bipartisan panel has been revealing its findings to the public from a year-long investigation into the Capitol riot. Over seven hearings so far, the committee has shown prominent former Trump officials and allies saying that the 2020 election was not stolen, efforts by Trump's inner circle to pressure Pence to challenge the results, testimony that several Trump allies and Republicans sought presidential pardons, among other evidence.
The next hearing is slated for Thursday, July 21.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger says the January 6 committee is considering asking Trump and Pence for testimony | Business Insider Africa
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Kinzinger told the Wall Street Journal about the committee's discussions ahead of a meeting.The committee has held seven hearings so far featuring testimony from Trump officials.
The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack is considering asking former Vice President Mike Pence and former President Donald Trump for testimony, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a committee member, told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
Ahead of a committee meeting, Kinzinger told the news outlet that the panel is weighing whether to subpoena Pence to testify. The committee could also seek a written interview from the former vice president, Kinzinger told the WSJ.
Besides Pence, the committee is also considering whether to request testimony from Trump himself, Kinzinger told the Journal.
Secret Service agents rushed to evacuate Pence out of the Senate chamber, where he was presiding over the certification of then President-elect Joe Biden's 2020 victory, to a secure location during the riot on January 6, 2021.
Trump, at the time, had pressured Pence to toss out Electoral College votes in battleground states that Biden won in an effort to overturn the results. Pence rejected his bid, arguing that he had no constitutional authority to do so.
The bipartisan panel has been revealing its findings to the public from a year-long investigation into the Capitol riot. Over seven hearings so far, the committee has shown prominent former Trump officials and allies saying that the 2020 election was not stolen, efforts by Trump's inner circle to pressure Pence to challenge the results, testimony that several Trump allies and Republicans sought presidential pardons, among other evidence.
The next hearing is slated for Thursday, July 21.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger says the January 6 committee is considering asking Trump and Pence for testimony | Business Insider Africa
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Considering tRump's response to not having any rpubs testify favorably for him he should welcome the chance to defend his self to the committee personally.
I forgot about that ho... she was passing that cat to a few desperate and gullible dumbasses... what does the CIA call ho's like her ?... honeypots
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Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 -- after oversight officials asked for them, watchdog says
(CNN)The US Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, shortly after they were requested by oversight officials investigating the agency's response to the US Capitol riot, according to a letter given to the House select committee investigating the insurrection and obtained by CNN.
The letter, which was originally sent to the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General, says the messages were erased from the system as part of a device-replacement program after the watchdog asked the agency for records related to its electronic communications.
"First, the Department notified us that many US Secret Service text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, were erased as part of a device-replacement program. The USSS erased those text messages after OIG requested records of electronic communications from the USSS, as part of our evaluation of events at the Capitol on January 6," the letter from DHS IG Joseph Cuffari stated.
"Second, DHS personnel have repeatedly told OIG inspectors that they were not permitted to provide records directly to OIG and that such records had to first undergo review by DHS attorneys," Cuffari added. "This review led to weeks-long delays in OIG obtaining records and created confusion over whether all records had been produced."
The Intercept was first to report the DHS IG letter.
The US Secret Service and the Homeland Security inspector general did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, chairs both the House Homeland Security and January 6 committees. He acknowledged in a statement Thursday evening that the panel had gotten the letter.
"The Committee on Homeland Security received a letter from the DHS Inspector General regarding the Secret Service deleting text messages the Office of Inspector General requested as part of its investigation into the January 6th attack on the Capitol," Thompson said. "The Committee will be briefed about this extraordinarily troubling destruction of records and respond accordingly."
While the letter does not say whether the DHS watchdog believes these text messages were erased intentionally or for a nefarious reason, the incident adds to growing questions about the Secret Service's response to the US Capitol attack.
The Secret Service has been in the spotlight since witnesses have described how former President Donald Trump angrily demanded that his detail take him to the Capitol following his speech at the White House Ellipse -- shortly before rioters breached the building.
A former adviser to then-Vice President Mike Pence also referenced the Secret Service in his testimony. Greg Jacob, Pence's former counsel, told the panel that Pence refused to get into the vice presidential vehicle after being evacuated from the Capitol, raising concerns that the driver would have taken him to a secure location and thus prevent him from certifying the electoral results.
More than a year after the riot, the Homeland Security inspector general review of the Secret Service and its actions on January 6 remains ongoing.
This story has been updated with additional developments Thursday.
Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 -- after oversight officials asked for them, watchdog says - CNNPolitics
(CNN)The US Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, shortly after they were requested by oversight officials investigating the agency's response to the US Capitol riot, according to a letter given to the House select committee investigating the insurrection and obtained by CNN.
The letter, which was originally sent to the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General, says the messages were erased from the system as part of a device-replacement program after the watchdog asked the agency for records related to its electronic communications.
"First, the Department notified us that many US Secret Service text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, were erased as part of a device-replacement program. The USSS erased those text messages after OIG requested records of electronic communications from the USSS, as part of our evaluation of events at the Capitol on January 6," the letter from DHS IG Joseph Cuffari stated.
"Second, DHS personnel have repeatedly told OIG inspectors that they were not permitted to provide records directly to OIG and that such records had to first undergo review by DHS attorneys," Cuffari added. "This review led to weeks-long delays in OIG obtaining records and created confusion over whether all records had been produced."
The Intercept was first to report the DHS IG letter.
The US Secret Service and the Homeland Security inspector general did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, chairs both the House Homeland Security and January 6 committees. He acknowledged in a statement Thursday evening that the panel had gotten the letter.
"The Committee on Homeland Security received a letter from the DHS Inspector General regarding the Secret Service deleting text messages the Office of Inspector General requested as part of its investigation into the January 6th attack on the Capitol," Thompson said. "The Committee will be briefed about this extraordinarily troubling destruction of records and respond accordingly."
While the letter does not say whether the DHS watchdog believes these text messages were erased intentionally or for a nefarious reason, the incident adds to growing questions about the Secret Service's response to the US Capitol attack.
The Secret Service has been in the spotlight since witnesses have described how former President Donald Trump angrily demanded that his detail take him to the Capitol following his speech at the White House Ellipse -- shortly before rioters breached the building.
A former adviser to then-Vice President Mike Pence also referenced the Secret Service in his testimony. Greg Jacob, Pence's former counsel, told the panel that Pence refused to get into the vice presidential vehicle after being evacuated from the Capitol, raising concerns that the driver would have taken him to a secure location and thus prevent him from certifying the electoral results.
More than a year after the riot, the Homeland Security inspector general review of the Secret Service and its actions on January 6 remains ongoing.
This story has been updated with additional developments Thursday.
Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 -- after oversight officials asked for them, watchdog says - CNNPolitics
All of this is theater. Not a thing will come of this.
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The Jan. 6 committee won't rule out more hearings this summer
New revelations, particularly in the wake of bombshell testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, have likely pushed the panel's conclusion to the fall.
House Jan. 6 committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., speaks to reporters after the committee’s hearing Tuesday.
WASHINGTON — House Jan. 6 committee Chairman Bennie Thompson said Wednesday he hopes next week’s prime-time hearing will be the last in its series of high-profile televised presentations.
But Thompson, D-Miss., isn’t ruling out holding more this summer, saying new evidence uncovered by the committee could prompt additional surprise hearings like the one last month that featured key witness Cassidy Hutchinson.
Asked whether he could promise that the July 21 public hearing — the panel’s eighth this year — will be the last, Thompson told reporters: “No, I can’t. I’m hoping it is, but something could come up, just like the Hutchinson situation that warranted what we felt was an immediate hearing.”
Another member, Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., also would not rule out additional hearings this summer, saying, “It depends on where the evidence takes us.”
Aguilar and others investigating the attack on Jan. 6, 2021, view Hutchinson’s bombshell public testimony — that President Donald Trump knew the supporters he sent to the Capitol that day were armed, that he refused to act as rioters stormed the Capitol and that he approved of their chanting that they wanted to hang Vice President Mike Pence — as a critical turning point in their yearlong inquiry that could lead to further revelations.
Panel members argue her damning, fly-on-the-wall testimony turned up the pressure on other Trump officials, compelling greater cooperation from former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and perhaps others.
“The Cassidy Hutchinson piece was newsworthy and important,” Aguilar told NBC News on Wednesday, “and to the extent that that has led or will continue to lead to people coming forward and sharing what they know about Jan. 6, that will guide the decisions that we make” about future hearings.
Aguilar declined to get into details about whether any future hearings might come in August — when lawmakers typically leave Washington for vacations or the campaign trail — or in September. “That’s a lot of hypotheticals,” he said.
Speaking to reporters after Tuesday’s hearing, Thompson said the committee will soon need to shift from “hearing, fact-finding mode to producing a document to return to Congress.”
The final congressional report on Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election, which culminated in the deadly attack on the Capitol, will come sometime in the "early fall," he said, in late September or October, before the November midterm elections.
And Thompson confirmed that the committee is likely to hold a public hearing when it releases the sweeping report, which is expected to include many details not covered in the hearings, as well as policy recommendations to try to prevent future disruptions in the peaceful transfer of power.
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The Jan. 6 committee won't rule out more hearings this summer (nbcnews.com)
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Doing too many will make them irrelevant, depending on what is presented that nobody was aware of.
They should do one hearing in August, one in September and one a week prior to early voting for the Mid-terms to keep the Democratic electorate motivated.
U-M Law Professor McQuade's Bold Idea: Charge Trump With Manslaughter In 5 Capitol Riot Deaths
Local legal commentator Barbara McQuade suggests that the U.S. Justice Department -- her past employer -- use an imaginative approach to charge President Trump with a street-level offense.
In 10 tweets, she describes "a crime I have not yet heard discussed much: manslaughter."
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Barbara L. McQuade, University of Michigan
Local legal commentator Barbara McQuade suggests that the U.S. Justice Department -- her past employer -- use an imaginative approach to charge President Trump with a street-level offense.
In 10 tweets, she describes "a crime I have not yet heard discussed much: manslaughter."
U-M law Professor McQuade's bold idea: Charge Trump with manslaughter in 5 Capitol riot deaths
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Barbara L. McQuade, University of Michigan
This is the shit people did fed time for. The Watergate break in people got minimal time. The people who went down or had to resign in disgrace were those involved in the cover ups.
DC police officer in Trump Jan. 6 motorcade corroborates details of heated Secret Service exchange to committee
(CNN)A Washington, DC, police officer has corroborated to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, details regarding a heated exchange former President Donald Trump had with his Secret Service detail when he was told he could not go to the US Capitol after his rally, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.
The officer with the Metropolitan Police Department was in the motorcade with the Secret Service for Trump on January 6 and recounted what was seen to committee investigators, according to the source.
A spokesperson for the committee declined to comment. A spokesperson for Metropolitan Police Department did not immediately respond to comment.
The description of the angry exchange between Trump and his Secret Service detail was a striking moment during the June testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Hutchinson said that she heard a secondhand account told to her by then-White House deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato that Trump was so enraged at his Secret Service detail for blocking him from going to the Capitol on the day of the insurrection that "he reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel" and "then used his free hand to lunge towards" his Secret Service lead agent Robert Engel. Hutchinson testified that Ornato told her the story in front of Engel and he did not dispute the account
Neither of the agents named in the testimony have commented publicly on Hutchinson's testimony. But soon after it, a Secret Service official who would only speak on background, said Engel would deny parts of the story regarding Trump grabbing at the steering wheel and lunging toward an agent on his detail. The agency has said the agents involved would testify to that effect, though they have not yet gone back to the committee to testify.
The committee is also engaging with the driver who was in the presidential SUV regarding possible testimony, the source said. A lawyer for the driver did not respond to a request for comment.
CNN has previously reported that two Secret Service sources have said they heard about Trump angrily demanding to go to the Capitol and berating his detail when he didn't get his way. The sources told CNN that stories circulated about the incident in the months after January 6 -- including details that are similar to what Hutchinson described to the committee.
CLARIFICATION: This story has been updated to clarify the type of vehicle in which the reported incident between Trump and his Secret Service detail took place.
DC police officer in Trump Jan. 6 motorcade corroborates details of heated Secret Service exchange to committee - CNNPolitics
(CNN)A Washington, DC, police officer has corroborated to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, details regarding a heated exchange former President Donald Trump had with his Secret Service detail when he was told he could not go to the US Capitol after his rally, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.
The officer with the Metropolitan Police Department was in the motorcade with the Secret Service for Trump on January 6 and recounted what was seen to committee investigators, according to the source.
A spokesperson for the committee declined to comment. A spokesperson for Metropolitan Police Department did not immediately respond to comment.
The description of the angry exchange between Trump and his Secret Service detail was a striking moment during the June testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Hutchinson said that she heard a secondhand account told to her by then-White House deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato that Trump was so enraged at his Secret Service detail for blocking him from going to the Capitol on the day of the insurrection that "he reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel" and "then used his free hand to lunge towards" his Secret Service lead agent Robert Engel. Hutchinson testified that Ornato told her the story in front of Engel and he did not dispute the account
Neither of the agents named in the testimony have commented publicly on Hutchinson's testimony. But soon after it, a Secret Service official who would only speak on background, said Engel would deny parts of the story regarding Trump grabbing at the steering wheel and lunging toward an agent on his detail. The agency has said the agents involved would testify to that effect, though they have not yet gone back to the committee to testify.
The committee is also engaging with the driver who was in the presidential SUV regarding possible testimony, the source said. A lawyer for the driver did not respond to a request for comment.
CNN has previously reported that two Secret Service sources have said they heard about Trump angrily demanding to go to the Capitol and berating his detail when he didn't get his way. The sources told CNN that stories circulated about the incident in the months after January 6 -- including details that are similar to what Hutchinson described to the committee.
CLARIFICATION: This story has been updated to clarify the type of vehicle in which the reported incident between Trump and his Secret Service detail took place.
DC police officer in Trump Jan. 6 motorcade corroborates details of heated Secret Service exchange to committee - CNNPolitics
This feels like bullshit. Why would a "device replacement" include deletion of messages? Stupid texts I sent from 10 years ago are probably on a server backed up somewhere, but records from a date of contention just get wiped without a trace. No way.
Watching Don Lemon now...... Elie Honig, former Federal & State Prosecutor:
"You don't just throw phones in the garbage.... you back them up first.... no excuses."
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There is a good chance those records can be recovered, unless someone went to extreme efforts to make sure they couldn't.