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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then why go through all this then
Does he still sleep on a twin sized air mattress on the floor in their basement too? Fucking whelp
Trump adviser Stephen Miller sues to shield phone records from Jan. 6 panel, citing 'family plan'
The court filing says Miller, the architect of Trump's child separation policy, has been on his family's phone plan "for at least the last ten years."
Trump adviser Stephen Miller sues to shield phone records from Jan. 6 panel, citing 'family plan' (nbcnews.com)
Stephen Miller meets virtually with January 6 committee
(CNN)Former Trump White House adviser Stephen Miller on Thursday testified virtually for roughly eight hours before the House select committee investigating the US Capitol insurrection, a source familiar with the meeting told CNN.
"It got a little chippy," the source said, suggesting Miller was at times a difficult witness. Some executive privilege issues came up during the meeting, the source added.
Miller is under subpoena by the committee and had resisted attempts to appear, including by suing to block the committee from forcing him to hand over documents and meet for an interview. In its subpoena of Miller, the committee cited the role he had played in sharing false claims of voter fraud related to the 2020 election.
The Associated Press first reported on Miller's planned testimony. The committee declined to comment.
The interview comes after two Trump White House lawyers appeared before the committee: former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and his deputy Patrick Philbin. A source told CNN that former President Donald Trump authorized Cipollone's testimony to the panel. Cipollone is a key player in the 2020 election saga because he pushed back against some of Trump's more egregious attempts to overturn the results.
Miller is among the former Trump officials who could provide the committee with details about what was happening inside the White House on, and leading up to, January 6, 2021.
In its subpoena letter to Miller late last year, the committee noted that he, by his own account, "participated in efforts to spread false information about alleged voter fraud in the November 2020 election, as well as efforts to encourage state legislatures to alter the outcome of the November 2020 election by appointing alternate slates of electors."
Miller and his team also helped prepare for Trump's remarks prior to the riot at the Ellipse on January 6, 2021, had been at the White House that day and was with the President when he spoke at the "Stop the Steal" rally, the committee added.
Miller is just the latest senior Trump official to appear before the committee. Ivanka Trump, the former President's daughter and former senior adviser, sat for an hours-long interview in recent weeks. Her husband, Jared Kushner, also voluntarily appeared before the committee.
Stephen Miller meets virtually with January 6 committee - CNNPolitics
Trump adviser Stephen Miller sues to shield phone records from Jan. 6 panel, citing 'family plan'
The court filing says Miller, the architect of Trump's child separation policy, has been on his family's phone plan "for at least the last ten years."
Trump adviser Stephen Miller sues to shield phone records from Jan. 6 panel, citing 'family plan' (nbcnews.com)
Stephen Miller meets virtually with January 6 committee
(CNN)Former Trump White House adviser Stephen Miller on Thursday testified virtually for roughly eight hours before the House select committee investigating the US Capitol insurrection, a source familiar with the meeting told CNN.
"It got a little chippy," the source said, suggesting Miller was at times a difficult witness. Some executive privilege issues came up during the meeting, the source added.
Miller is under subpoena by the committee and had resisted attempts to appear, including by suing to block the committee from forcing him to hand over documents and meet for an interview. In its subpoena of Miller, the committee cited the role he had played in sharing false claims of voter fraud related to the 2020 election.
The Associated Press first reported on Miller's planned testimony. The committee declined to comment.
The interview comes after two Trump White House lawyers appeared before the committee: former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and his deputy Patrick Philbin. A source told CNN that former President Donald Trump authorized Cipollone's testimony to the panel. Cipollone is a key player in the 2020 election saga because he pushed back against some of Trump's more egregious attempts to overturn the results.
Miller is among the former Trump officials who could provide the committee with details about what was happening inside the White House on, and leading up to, January 6, 2021.
In its subpoena letter to Miller late last year, the committee noted that he, by his own account, "participated in efforts to spread false information about alleged voter fraud in the November 2020 election, as well as efforts to encourage state legislatures to alter the outcome of the November 2020 election by appointing alternate slates of electors."
Miller and his team also helped prepare for Trump's remarks prior to the riot at the Ellipse on January 6, 2021, had been at the White House that day and was with the President when he spoke at the "Stop the Steal" rally, the committee added.
Miller is just the latest senior Trump official to appear before the committee. Ivanka Trump, the former President's daughter and former senior adviser, sat for an hours-long interview in recent weeks. Her husband, Jared Kushner, also voluntarily appeared before the committee.
Stephen Miller meets virtually with January 6 committee - CNNPolitics
Fearing a Trump Repeat, Jan. 6 Panel Considers Changes to Insurrection Act
WASHINGTON — In the days before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, some of President Donald Trump’s most extreme allies and members of right-wing militia groups urged him to use his power as commander in chief to unleash the military to help keep him in office.
Now, as the House committee investigating last year’s riot uncovers new evidence about the lengths to which Trump was willing to go to cling to power, some lawmakers on the panel have quietly begun discussions about rewriting the Insurrection Act, the 1807 law that gives presidents wide authority to deploy the military within the United States to respond to a rebellion.
The discussions are preliminary, and debate over the act has been fraught in the aftermath of Trump’s presidency. Proponents envision a doomsday scenario in which a rogue future president might try to use the military to stoke — rather than put down — an insurrection, or to abuse protesters. But skeptics worry about depriving a president of the power to quickly deploy armed troops in the event of an uprising, as presidents did during the Civil War and the civil rights era.
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While Trump never invoked the law, he threatened to do so in 2020 to have the military crack down on crowds protesting the police killing of George Floyd. Stephen Miller, one of his top advisers, also proposed putting it into effect to turn back migrants at the southwestern border, an idea that was rejected by the defense secretary at the time, Mark Esper.
And as Trump grasped for ways to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, some hard-right advisers encouraged him to declare martial law and deploy U.S. troops to seize voting machines. In the runup to the Jan. 6 attack, members of right-wing militia groups also encouraged Trump to invoke the law, believing that he was on the brink of giving them approval to descend on Washington with weapons to fight on his behalf.
“There are many of us who are of the view that the Insurrection Act, which the former president threatened to invoke multiple times throughout 2020, bears a review,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., a member of the Jan. 6 committee.
While no evidence has emerged that Trump planned to invoke the act to stay in office, people close to him were pushing for him to do so. Michael T. Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, attended a meeting in the Oval Office on Dec. 18, 2020, in which participants discussed seizing voting machines, declaring a national emergency and invoking certain national security emergency powers. That meeting came after Flynn gave an interview to right-wing television network Newsmax in which he talked about a purported precedent for deploying troops and declaring martial law to “rerun” the election.
The idea was also floated by Roger Stone, the political operative and longtime confidant of Trump, who told conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in an interview that Trump should consider invoking the Insurrection Act.
In the weeks before the riot, the notion was prevalent among militia members and other hard-right supporters of Trump. It has surfaced repeatedly in evidence that federal prosecutors and the House committee have obtained during their investigations into the Capitol attack.
In December 2020, Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia group, wrote an open letter to Trump in which he called on the president to “use the Insurrection Act to ‘stop the steal,’” begin seizing voting data and order a new election.
“Clearly, an unlawful combination and conspiracy in multiple states (indeed, in every state) has acted to deprive the people of the fundamental right to vote for their representatives in a clear, fair election,” Rhodes wrote, adding, “You, and you alone, are fully authorized by the Insurrection Act to determine that such a situation exists and to use the U.S. military and militia to rectify that situation.”
In text messages and social media posts before the Capitol riot, other Oath Keepers members also discussed the possibility of Trump invoking the Insurrection Act. Two of them, Jessica Watkins and Kelly Meggs, the head of the militia’s Florida chapter, have been charged in connection with the attack.
And Rhodes sent armed men to a hotel in Virginia on Jan. 6 to await Trump’s order, which the militia leader said would nullify Washington gun restrictions and allow the group to take up arms and fight for the president.
The House committee, which has interviewed more than 850 witnesses, is charged with writing an authoritative report about the events that led to the violence of Jan. 6 and coming up with legislative recommendations to try to protect American democracy from a repeat. Although the committee's recommendations are likely to garner widespread attention, they are not guaranteed to become law.
One such recommendation is almost certainly to be an overhaul of the Electoral Count Act, which Trump and his allies tried to use to overturn the 2020 election. In recent weeks, the panel has begun discussing whether to call for revisions to the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy troops to suppress “any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination or conspiracy.”
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Fearing a Trump Repeat, Jan. 6 Panel Considers Changes to Insurrection Act (yahoo.com)
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WASHINGTON — In the days before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, some of President Donald Trump’s most extreme allies and members of right-wing militia groups urged him to use his power as commander in chief to unleash the military to help keep him in office.
Now, as the House committee investigating last year’s riot uncovers new evidence about the lengths to which Trump was willing to go to cling to power, some lawmakers on the panel have quietly begun discussions about rewriting the Insurrection Act, the 1807 law that gives presidents wide authority to deploy the military within the United States to respond to a rebellion.
The discussions are preliminary, and debate over the act has been fraught in the aftermath of Trump’s presidency. Proponents envision a doomsday scenario in which a rogue future president might try to use the military to stoke — rather than put down — an insurrection, or to abuse protesters. But skeptics worry about depriving a president of the power to quickly deploy armed troops in the event of an uprising, as presidents did during the Civil War and the civil rights era.
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While Trump never invoked the law, he threatened to do so in 2020 to have the military crack down on crowds protesting the police killing of George Floyd. Stephen Miller, one of his top advisers, also proposed putting it into effect to turn back migrants at the southwestern border, an idea that was rejected by the defense secretary at the time, Mark Esper.
And as Trump grasped for ways to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election, some hard-right advisers encouraged him to declare martial law and deploy U.S. troops to seize voting machines. In the runup to the Jan. 6 attack, members of right-wing militia groups also encouraged Trump to invoke the law, believing that he was on the brink of giving them approval to descend on Washington with weapons to fight on his behalf.
“There are many of us who are of the view that the Insurrection Act, which the former president threatened to invoke multiple times throughout 2020, bears a review,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., a member of the Jan. 6 committee.
While no evidence has emerged that Trump planned to invoke the act to stay in office, people close to him were pushing for him to do so. Michael T. Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, attended a meeting in the Oval Office on Dec. 18, 2020, in which participants discussed seizing voting machines, declaring a national emergency and invoking certain national security emergency powers. That meeting came after Flynn gave an interview to right-wing television network Newsmax in which he talked about a purported precedent for deploying troops and declaring martial law to “rerun” the election.
The idea was also floated by Roger Stone, the political operative and longtime confidant of Trump, who told conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in an interview that Trump should consider invoking the Insurrection Act.
In the weeks before the riot, the notion was prevalent among militia members and other hard-right supporters of Trump. It has surfaced repeatedly in evidence that federal prosecutors and the House committee have obtained during their investigations into the Capitol attack.
In December 2020, Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia group, wrote an open letter to Trump in which he called on the president to “use the Insurrection Act to ‘stop the steal,’” begin seizing voting data and order a new election.
“Clearly, an unlawful combination and conspiracy in multiple states (indeed, in every state) has acted to deprive the people of the fundamental right to vote for their representatives in a clear, fair election,” Rhodes wrote, adding, “You, and you alone, are fully authorized by the Insurrection Act to determine that such a situation exists and to use the U.S. military and militia to rectify that situation.”
In text messages and social media posts before the Capitol riot, other Oath Keepers members also discussed the possibility of Trump invoking the Insurrection Act. Two of them, Jessica Watkins and Kelly Meggs, the head of the militia’s Florida chapter, have been charged in connection with the attack.
And Rhodes sent armed men to a hotel in Virginia on Jan. 6 to await Trump’s order, which the militia leader said would nullify Washington gun restrictions and allow the group to take up arms and fight for the president.
The House committee, which has interviewed more than 850 witnesses, is charged with writing an authoritative report about the events that led to the violence of Jan. 6 and coming up with legislative recommendations to try to protect American democracy from a repeat. Although the committee's recommendations are likely to garner widespread attention, they are not guaranteed to become law.
One such recommendation is almost certainly to be an overhaul of the Electoral Count Act, which Trump and his allies tried to use to overturn the 2020 election. In recent weeks, the panel has begun discussing whether to call for revisions to the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy troops to suppress “any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination or conspiracy.”
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Fearing a Trump Repeat, Jan. 6 Panel Considers Changes to Insurrection Act (yahoo.com)
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They need to put a law in for that just in case someone else pops up like him
Trump walks out of explosive Piers Morgan interview after being pressed on 2020 election
Former President Donald Trump blasted Piers Morgan as “very dishonest” while walking out of an interview after being pressed on the 2020 presidential election.
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CNN obtains 2,319 texts that Mark Meadows gave to Jan. 6 panel
January 6 committee to hold 8 hearings beginning on June 9th, chairman says
By Annie Grayer, Daniella Diaz and Ryan Nobles, CNN
Updated 4:39 PM ET, Thu April 28, 2022
Rep. Bennie Thompson, chair of the select committee investigating the January 6 attack, speaks to reporters after the conclusion of a business meeting on Capitol Hill in December.
(CNN)Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, who chairs the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill insurrection, told reporters Thursday that the committee will hold eight hearings spread out through the month of June.
Thompson said the hearings will be a "mixture of some prime time and some regular" and they "will tell the story about what happened." Thompson also said he expects "at this point the first hearing is June 9th," though that date did not appear to be finalized.
When and how many public hearings the committee would have has been an open question as the panel has ramped up its investigation over the past year.
Thompson also said the committee will be reaching out to more members of Congress as soon as this week that they want to speak to -- including Republicans in both the House and the Senate.
"Some other members will be sent letters," Thompson said Thursday, emphasizing that these were members who the panel has not reached out to yet. "And we plan to provide the press copies of the letters."
Thompson also said the committee will be reaching back out to the three lawmakers it initially asked to speak with by the end of the week. Those three are: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and GOP Reps. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Jim Jordan of Ohio.
The news of public hearings comes as the committee continues to seek witnesses. Rudy Giuliani is expected to appear next month before the committee, according to sources familiar with the matter, CNN reported Wednesday. That expected appearance comes after months of negotiations between lawmakers and the former mayor of New York, who served as former President Donald Trump's personal attorney for much of his presidency.
Multiple sources previously told CNN that the committee is planning to produce a multimedia presentation and hire a writer as part of its effort to turn its largely secretive work into a compelling narrative. The online presentation, which would include links to key video evidence, would be in addition to a traditional written report, according to a source familiar with the committee's work. The online multi-media presentation, which would include links to key video evidence, would be in addition to a traditional written report, according to a source familiar with the committee's work.
This story has been updated with additional developments Thursday.
January 6 committee to hold 8 hearings in June, chairman says - CNNPolitics
By Annie Grayer, Daniella Diaz and Ryan Nobles, CNN
Updated 4:39 PM ET, Thu April 28, 2022
Rep. Bennie Thompson, chair of the select committee investigating the January 6 attack, speaks to reporters after the conclusion of a business meeting on Capitol Hill in December.
(CNN)Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, who chairs the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill insurrection, told reporters Thursday that the committee will hold eight hearings spread out through the month of June.
Thompson said the hearings will be a "mixture of some prime time and some regular" and they "will tell the story about what happened." Thompson also said he expects "at this point the first hearing is June 9th," though that date did not appear to be finalized.
When and how many public hearings the committee would have has been an open question as the panel has ramped up its investigation over the past year.
Thompson also said the committee will be reaching out to more members of Congress as soon as this week that they want to speak to -- including Republicans in both the House and the Senate.
"Some other members will be sent letters," Thompson said Thursday, emphasizing that these were members who the panel has not reached out to yet. "And we plan to provide the press copies of the letters."
Thompson also said the committee will be reaching back out to the three lawmakers it initially asked to speak with by the end of the week. Those three are: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and GOP Reps. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Jim Jordan of Ohio.
The news of public hearings comes as the committee continues to seek witnesses. Rudy Giuliani is expected to appear next month before the committee, according to sources familiar with the matter, CNN reported Wednesday. That expected appearance comes after months of negotiations between lawmakers and the former mayor of New York, who served as former President Donald Trump's personal attorney for much of his presidency.
Multiple sources previously told CNN that the committee is planning to produce a multimedia presentation and hire a writer as part of its effort to turn its largely secretive work into a compelling narrative. The online presentation, which would include links to key video evidence, would be in addition to a traditional written report, according to a source familiar with the committee's work. The online multi-media presentation, which would include links to key video evidence, would be in addition to a traditional written report, according to a source familiar with the committee's work.
This story has been updated with additional developments Thursday.
January 6 committee to hold 8 hearings in June, chairman says - CNNPolitics
House Jan. 6 committee requests interviews with 3 more lawmakers
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three more House Republicans received requests Monday to voluntarily appear before the congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection, weeks after investigators revealed new evidence of their involvement in former President Donald Trump’s desperate attempt to stay in power.
The select committee sent letters to Reps. Andy Biggs, Mo Brooks and Ronny Jackson — three members of the ultra-right House Freedom Caucus that have in recent years aligned themselves with Trump.
The nine-member panel is asking for the members of Congress to testify about their involvement in meetings at the White House, direct conversations with Trump as he sought to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election as well as the planning and coordination of rallies on and before Jan. 6, 2021.
“The Select Committee has learned that several of our colleagues have information relevant to our investigation into the facts, circumstances, and causes of January 6th,” committee chairman Bennie Thompson and vice-chair Liz Cheney said in a statement. “We urge our colleagues to join the hundreds of individuals who have shared information with the Select Committee to get to the bottom of what happened on January 6th.”
House Jan. 6 committee requests interviews with 3 more lawmakers (cbs7.com)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Three more House Republicans received requests Monday to voluntarily appear before the congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection, weeks after investigators revealed new evidence of their involvement in former President Donald Trump’s desperate attempt to stay in power.
The select committee sent letters to Reps. Andy Biggs, Mo Brooks and Ronny Jackson — three members of the ultra-right House Freedom Caucus that have in recent years aligned themselves with Trump.
The nine-member panel is asking for the members of Congress to testify about their involvement in meetings at the White House, direct conversations with Trump as he sought to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election as well as the planning and coordination of rallies on and before Jan. 6, 2021.
“The Select Committee has learned that several of our colleagues have information relevant to our investigation into the facts, circumstances, and causes of January 6th,” committee chairman Bennie Thompson and vice-chair Liz Cheney said in a statement. “We urge our colleagues to join the hundreds of individuals who have shared information with the Select Committee to get to the bottom of what happened on January 6th.”
House Jan. 6 committee requests interviews with 3 more lawmakers (cbs7.com)
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Looks like they got quite a few questions for the goofy once Trump doctor now Congressman Ronnie Jackson....shit from an oath keeper encrypted communication that said that he needed protection.... for the data he had
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you got a source LB?
Deadline Whitehouse was talking about it in their opening.... and I'm sure that Ari Melber will be talking about it, as well as Maddow an O'Donnel
I Tivo'd it and went back to this on screen... a quote from the committee in a letter to him requesting his appearance before them..... do a search for it
".... while the Jan 6th attack on the Capitol was underway, members of the Oath Keepers, including it's leader, Stewart Rhodes, exchanged encrypted messages asking members of the organization to provide you personally with security assistance, suggesting that you have "critical data to protect"
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@dbluesun The article I posted two posts above yours talks about it....If you find it and the letters to Cong. Andy Biggs and Mo Brooks
This also.....
"Why would these individuals have an interest in your specific location. Why would they believe that you "have critical data to protect?" Why would they direct their members to protect your personal safety? With whom did you speak by cell phone that day?"
This also.....
"Why would these individuals have an interest in your specific location. Why would they believe that you "have critical data to protect?" Why would they direct their members to protect your personal safety? With whom did you speak by cell phone that day?"
Goofy bitch boy is already running scared and refuses to appear calling them illegitimate.... the fool is too stupid to realize that they already got half the story and more.... they just giving that idiot a chance to explain it away
@dbluesun ..Oath Keeper encrypted messages
User 1 (3:00pm): Ronnie Jackson(TX) office inside Capitol-he needs Oath Keepers help. Anyone inside?
User 2(3:03pm): Hopefully they can help Dr. Jackson
User 1(3:08pm): Dr, Ronnie Jackson-on the move. Needs protection. If anyone inside cover him. He has critical data to protect.
Stewart Rhodes(3:10pm): Give him my cell.
User 1 (3:00pm): Ronnie Jackson(TX) office inside Capitol-he needs Oath Keepers help. Anyone inside?
User 2(3:03pm): Hopefully they can help Dr. Jackson
User 1(3:08pm): Dr, Ronnie Jackson-on the move. Needs protection. If anyone inside cover him. He has critical data to protect.
Stewart Rhodes(3:10pm): Give him my cell.
thanks dawg@dbluesun ..Oath Keeper encrypted messages
User 1 (3:00pm): Ronnie Jackson(TX) office inside Capitol-he needs Oath Keepers help. Anyone inside?
User 2(3:03pm): Hopefully they can help Dr. Jackson
User 1(3:08pm): Dr, Ronnie Jackson-on the move. Needs protection. If anyone inside cover him. He has critical data to protect.
Stewart Rhodes(3:10pm): Give him my cell.
BREAKING: Donald Trump Jr. Testifies Virtually Before Jan. 6 Committee
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January 6 committee finalizing witness list and topics ahead of high-stakes hearings in June
By Annie Grayer, Ryan Nobles, Jamie Gangel and Zachary Cohen, CNN
Updated 8:55 PM ET, Wed May 11, 2022
Washington (CNN)A month before it kicks off a series of high-profile public hearings, the House select committee investigating January 6 is still finalizing its witness list and preparing to reach out to people it wants to testify publicly.
The first hearing, set for June 9, will be a broad overview of the panel's 10-month investigation and set the stage for subsequent hearings, which are expected to cover certain topics or themes including what President Donald Trump was doing as the riot unfolded, the pushing of baseless election fraud claims that motivated rioters, how law enforcement responded to the attack, and the organizing and financing behind the January 6 rallies, sources tell CNN.
While the setup of the hearings is still a work in progress and evolving, sources note, the presentations will likely feature video clips from January 6, as well as some of the nearly 1,000 interviews the committee has conducted behind closed doors. That could help the committee share more testimony, as well as deal with potentially recalcitrant witnesses.
The committee may begin reaching out to potential witnesses as soon as next week, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Among the witnesses whose testimony was videotaped were members of Trump's family, including recent interviews with Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
A representative for Donald Trump Jr. declined to comment. A representative for Ivanka Trump and Kushner did not respond to a request for comment, and a spokesperson for the committee also declined to comment about next month's hearings.
Multiple people who have been interviewed by the committee tell CNN they expect to be called as first-hand fact witnesses to the events on or around January 6, though none of them say they've been notified by the committee yet. Those people include former members of the Trump administration, former White House officials and rally planners.
At least one fact witness who has been deposed by the committee behind closed doors already told the panel they will refuse to testify publicly if asked, according to a source familiar with the matter. Other witnesses, including rally organizers, have indicated they may be willing to participate in public hearings under a certain set of ground rules, two additional sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
Among the key witnesses who sources say are likely to be called for the public hearings are former Justice Department officials Jeff Rosen and Richard Donoghue, the interim attorney general and deputy attorney general during the final month of the Trump administration. Both have testified to the committee about Trump's efforts to pressure the Justice Department to investigate unfounded allegations of voter fraud after the 2020 election.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/09/politics/media-lawsuit-house-january-6-transparency/index.html
Neither Rosen nor Donoghue have been asked to testify at a public hearing, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Also expected to be on the final witness list for public hearings are top aides to former Vice President Mike Pence, including his former chief of staff Marc Short and former general counsel Greg Jacob.
It's unclear if the committee will ask Pence to appear for public hearings, but two people familiar with the investigation say they would be very surprised if he testified.
"We understand the interest in talking to the vice president, and we haven't made decisions at this point," committee member Democratic Rep. Pete Aguilar of California told CNN's John Berman on Tuesday morning. "But I can tell you that we continue to receive ample evidence that will help us in this discussion.
In January, the committee's chairman, Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, told CNN the panel wanted to hear directly from Pence, but last month Thompson walked that back.
"There's no effort on the part of the committee to get him to come in" Thompson said.
Former President Trump is also not expected to be asked to testify, according to two sources familiar with the investigation. Both sources indicated that they did not think Trump would cooperate in a productive manner, and doubt that he would agree to testify under oath in a public setting.
However, the committee is interested in calling back for the public hearings former White House staffers who observed Trump during the attack. The committee has long sought to determine what the former president did and did not do during the riot.
All-day meetings to sort through mountains of evidence
Members of the House Select committee Rep. Zoe Lofgren, left, Rep. Bennie Thompson, center, and Rep. Liz Cheney, right, during a business meeting in Washington, D.C., on Monday, March 28, 2022.
Along with its nearly 1,000 witness interviews, the committee has issued hundreds of subpoenas, obtained thousands of phone records and text messages, and poured over stacks of documents won in hard-fought court battles, including the White House records secured from the National Archives after a lawsuit went to the Supreme Court. Turning that work into compelling hearings for the American public will be critical to the committee's overall success.
Planning sessions have become so demanding, committee staffers have been locked in all-day meetings to sort through key details including witnesses and hearing topics. Some of the panel's nine members have instructed their personal offices to clear their schedules for the whole month of June.
Each of the committee's nine members has been assigned to lead presentations of different topic areas, similar to how impeachment managers led certain portions of the two impeachment proceedings against Trump.
One source close to the committee told CNN that the panel has drawn on experiences from Trump's two impeachment proceedings. Those hearings have served as a model of both what to do and not to do.
A key difference to typical committee proceedings is that the January 6 hearings will not feature the voices of prominent Trump supporters in Congress. The panel's only two Republican members, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, are both outspoken critics of Trump.
The committee is still considering whether to subpoena any House Republicans who have refused to cooperate voluntarily, and if the list of lawmakers it wants to talk to should expand.
Hearings will feature different teams' work
The June hearings will incorporate the work of the panel's investigative teams, which have been designated different colors.
One of those teams, the gold team, has examined efforts by Trump and his allies to pressure Justice Department officials, as well as those at the state level, to overturn the results of the election. Thompson told CNN in January that the hearings would likely include testimony from state election officials, as well as former top members of the Trump Justice Department.
"They will be a combination of exhibits, staff testimony and outside witnesses," Thompson told CNN last week. "Some of them will be people that people have not heard from before, and I think their testimony will be on point as to why this investigation was so important."
The committee's blue team has been examining how government agencies and law enforcement prepared for and responded to the January 6 attack. The green team was tasked with tracking money connected to January 6, including the funding behind the rallies.
The main goal of the committee in holding the hearings is to show that even though Trump was told repeatedly there was no election fraud, he continued to push forward with his campaign to overturn the election.
Looming over the June hearings will be a number of questions. Chief among them is whether the panel intends to make criminal referrals to the Justice Department, either for Trump or anyone else.
In March, a federal judge said that it was "more likely than not" that Trump attempted to corruptly disrupt the January 6 congressional certification of the 2020 election. A key goal for the hearings, sources say, will be shedding light on what Trump was doing as the riot unfolded, including establishing a timeline for the 187 minutes between when the violence began and when Trump finally released a video telling rioters to go home.
Asked by CNN's Berman on Tuesday if he believes Trump's inaction during the riot constitutes a dereliction of his duty as commander in chief, Aguilar said that he did.
"Yes. I think that the president had every opportunity to walk into the press room, to tweet, to talk to the American public, and to tell these insurrectionists to go home, to tell them we're going to have a peaceful transition of power," Aguilar told Berman. "That's a hallmark of democracy. And each and every step of the way he chose not to do that."
January 6 committee finalizing witness list and topics ahead of high-stakes hearings in June - CNNPolitics
By Annie Grayer, Ryan Nobles, Jamie Gangel and Zachary Cohen, CNN
Updated 8:55 PM ET, Wed May 11, 2022
Washington (CNN)A month before it kicks off a series of high-profile public hearings, the House select committee investigating January 6 is still finalizing its witness list and preparing to reach out to people it wants to testify publicly.
The first hearing, set for June 9, will be a broad overview of the panel's 10-month investigation and set the stage for subsequent hearings, which are expected to cover certain topics or themes including what President Donald Trump was doing as the riot unfolded, the pushing of baseless election fraud claims that motivated rioters, how law enforcement responded to the attack, and the organizing and financing behind the January 6 rallies, sources tell CNN.
While the setup of the hearings is still a work in progress and evolving, sources note, the presentations will likely feature video clips from January 6, as well as some of the nearly 1,000 interviews the committee has conducted behind closed doors. That could help the committee share more testimony, as well as deal with potentially recalcitrant witnesses.
The committee may begin reaching out to potential witnesses as soon as next week, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
Among the witnesses whose testimony was videotaped were members of Trump's family, including recent interviews with Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
A representative for Donald Trump Jr. declined to comment. A representative for Ivanka Trump and Kushner did not respond to a request for comment, and a spokesperson for the committee also declined to comment about next month's hearings.
Multiple people who have been interviewed by the committee tell CNN they expect to be called as first-hand fact witnesses to the events on or around January 6, though none of them say they've been notified by the committee yet. Those people include former members of the Trump administration, former White House officials and rally planners.
At least one fact witness who has been deposed by the committee behind closed doors already told the panel they will refuse to testify publicly if asked, according to a source familiar with the matter. Other witnesses, including rally organizers, have indicated they may be willing to participate in public hearings under a certain set of ground rules, two additional sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
Among the key witnesses who sources say are likely to be called for the public hearings are former Justice Department officials Jeff Rosen and Richard Donoghue, the interim attorney general and deputy attorney general during the final month of the Trump administration. Both have testified to the committee about Trump's efforts to pressure the Justice Department to investigate unfounded allegations of voter fraud after the 2020 election.
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Neither Rosen nor Donoghue have been asked to testify at a public hearing, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Also expected to be on the final witness list for public hearings are top aides to former Vice President Mike Pence, including his former chief of staff Marc Short and former general counsel Greg Jacob.
It's unclear if the committee will ask Pence to appear for public hearings, but two people familiar with the investigation say they would be very surprised if he testified.
"We understand the interest in talking to the vice president, and we haven't made decisions at this point," committee member Democratic Rep. Pete Aguilar of California told CNN's John Berman on Tuesday morning. "But I can tell you that we continue to receive ample evidence that will help us in this discussion.
In January, the committee's chairman, Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, told CNN the panel wanted to hear directly from Pence, but last month Thompson walked that back.
"There's no effort on the part of the committee to get him to come in" Thompson said.
Former President Trump is also not expected to be asked to testify, according to two sources familiar with the investigation. Both sources indicated that they did not think Trump would cooperate in a productive manner, and doubt that he would agree to testify under oath in a public setting.
However, the committee is interested in calling back for the public hearings former White House staffers who observed Trump during the attack. The committee has long sought to determine what the former president did and did not do during the riot.
All-day meetings to sort through mountains of evidence
Members of the House Select committee Rep. Zoe Lofgren, left, Rep. Bennie Thompson, center, and Rep. Liz Cheney, right, during a business meeting in Washington, D.C., on Monday, March 28, 2022.
Along with its nearly 1,000 witness interviews, the committee has issued hundreds of subpoenas, obtained thousands of phone records and text messages, and poured over stacks of documents won in hard-fought court battles, including the White House records secured from the National Archives after a lawsuit went to the Supreme Court. Turning that work into compelling hearings for the American public will be critical to the committee's overall success.
Planning sessions have become so demanding, committee staffers have been locked in all-day meetings to sort through key details including witnesses and hearing topics. Some of the panel's nine members have instructed their personal offices to clear their schedules for the whole month of June.
Each of the committee's nine members has been assigned to lead presentations of different topic areas, similar to how impeachment managers led certain portions of the two impeachment proceedings against Trump.
One source close to the committee told CNN that the panel has drawn on experiences from Trump's two impeachment proceedings. Those hearings have served as a model of both what to do and not to do.
A key difference to typical committee proceedings is that the January 6 hearings will not feature the voices of prominent Trump supporters in Congress. The panel's only two Republican members, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, are both outspoken critics of Trump.
The committee is still considering whether to subpoena any House Republicans who have refused to cooperate voluntarily, and if the list of lawmakers it wants to talk to should expand.
Hearings will feature different teams' work
The June hearings will incorporate the work of the panel's investigative teams, which have been designated different colors.
One of those teams, the gold team, has examined efforts by Trump and his allies to pressure Justice Department officials, as well as those at the state level, to overturn the results of the election. Thompson told CNN in January that the hearings would likely include testimony from state election officials, as well as former top members of the Trump Justice Department.
"They will be a combination of exhibits, staff testimony and outside witnesses," Thompson told CNN last week. "Some of them will be people that people have not heard from before, and I think their testimony will be on point as to why this investigation was so important."
The committee's blue team has been examining how government agencies and law enforcement prepared for and responded to the January 6 attack. The green team was tasked with tracking money connected to January 6, including the funding behind the rallies.
The main goal of the committee in holding the hearings is to show that even though Trump was told repeatedly there was no election fraud, he continued to push forward with his campaign to overturn the election.
Looming over the June hearings will be a number of questions. Chief among them is whether the panel intends to make criminal referrals to the Justice Department, either for Trump or anyone else.
In March, a federal judge said that it was "more likely than not" that Trump attempted to corruptly disrupt the January 6 congressional certification of the 2020 election. A key goal for the hearings, sources say, will be shedding light on what Trump was doing as the riot unfolded, including establishing a timeline for the 187 minutes between when the violence began and when Trump finally released a video telling rioters to go home.
Asked by CNN's Berman on Tuesday if he believes Trump's inaction during the riot constitutes a dereliction of his duty as commander in chief, Aguilar said that he did.
"Yes. I think that the president had every opportunity to walk into the press room, to tweet, to talk to the American public, and to tell these insurrectionists to go home, to tell them we're going to have a peaceful transition of power," Aguilar told Berman. "That's a hallmark of democracy. And each and every step of the way he chose not to do that."
January 6 committee finalizing witness list and topics ahead of high-stakes hearings in June - CNNPolitics
January 6 committee issues subpoenas to 5 House Republicans, including Kevin McCarthy
(CNN)The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol is taking the extraordinary step of sending subpoenas to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other Republican lawmakers who have rejected the panel's requests to voluntarily cooperate.
In addition to McCarthy, the Democrat-led panel is subpoenaing Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.
Lawmakers on the panel have been weighing whether to subpoena their Republican colleagues for months, wrestling with whether they had the constitutional right to do so, and debating if they wanted to set such a precedent.
And with hearings less than a month away, the panel is facing a ticking clock to get all the information it can.
"The Select Committee has learned that several of our colleagues have information relevant to our investigation into the attack on January 6th and the events leading up to it," the panel's chairman, Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, said in a statement. "Before we hold our hearings next month, we wished to provide members the opportunity to discuss these matters with the committee voluntarily."
"Regrettably, the individuals receiving subpoenas today have refused and we're forced to take this step to help ensure the committee uncovers facts concerning January 6th," he continued. "We urge our colleagues to comply with the law, do their patriotic duty, and cooperate with our investigation as hundreds of other witnesses have done."
The committee has scheduled the depositions for the members of Congress for the end of May.
CNN has reached out to the five congressmen for comment.
McCarthy would not say whether he plans to comply with a subpoena to appear before the committee, saying he hadn't seen it yet, although he later clarified that his attorney had received it. But he said he still views the committee as illegitimate.
"My view on the committee has not changed," McCarthy said. "They're not conducting a legitimate investigation. They just want to go after their political opponents," he told reporters. "But the one thing that has changed in America: higher inflation ... unsecure border, gas prices and now we don't have baby formula."
Perry would not answer when asked if he would comply with the subpoena.
"This is all for headlines and sensationalism," Perry told CNN. "The fact that they sent it to the press before they send it to the members is just proof it's all about headlines. This whole thing is a charade."
Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California, a member of the committee, said the panel weighed whether to issue subpoenas and what to do if witnesses don't comply.
"This has been something to consider as we approach the end of the interview and deposition process," Schiff said. "We have resolved what we're going to do. So, we're moving forward. ... It was more of a process of sequencing to get a good decision than it was any kind of division among members."
Kevin McCarthy appearance date: May 31
In its initial letter to McCarthy in January, the panel made clear it wanted to question him about his communications with former President Donald Trump, White House staff and others in the week after the January 6 attack, "particularly regarding President Trump's state of mind at that time."
The committee also wanted to understand how McCarthy's public comments since the attack had changed from critical to in defense of Trump over time, and questioned whether Trump pressured him to change his tone when the pair met in late January 2021.
Since the panel's letter to McCarthy, new audio revealed that in the days following the January 6 insurrection, the minority leader had considered asking Trump to resign. Audio has also exposed that McCarthy told Republican lawmakers on a private conference call that Trump had admitted bearing some responsibility for the deadly attack.
The panel first reached out to Jordan, one of Trump's staunchest allies on Capitol Hill, in December to learn more about communications he had with Trump on January 6, and with Trump allies who were stationed in the Willard Hotel war room in the days leading up to the attack.
Jim Jordan appearance date: May 26
Jordan and Trump spoke on the phone in the morning of January 6, 2021, while Trump was in the White House residence, White House call records in the panel's possession, first reported by CNN, showed. Since Jordan first acknowledged that he spoke to Trump on the phone that day, the Ohio Republican and Trump loyalist has waved off questions about it or have been inconsistent in his answers.
Jordan has also previously been identified as one of the lawmakers who sent a text message to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that the committee has in its possession. The message that Jordan forwarded to Meadows on January 5, 2021, outlined a legal theory that then-Vice President Mike Pence had the authority to stand in the way of the certification of the 2020 election.
Jordan was selected by McCarthy back in July to be one of five GOP members on the January 6 committee, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected McCarthy's selection of Jordan, along with GOP Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana, because she said their appointments could impact the "integrity of the investigation." Pelosi's decision led McCarthy to pull all five of his members, which further soured the willingness between the two parties to work together, and led Pelosi to select GOP Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois to serve on the panel.
Scott Perry appearance date: May 26
Perry was the first lawmaker the committee sought voluntary cooperation from because of the key role he played in trying to help Trump undermine the 2020 election. Text messages obtained by CNN that came out after the panel's initial letter, have filled in significant gaps about the role Perry played at almost every turn in scheming to reverse or delay certification of the 2020 election.
Text messages selectively provided by Meadows to the committee, show that Perry was pushing to have the nation's top intelligence official investigate baseless conspiracy theories and worked to replace the US acting attorney general with an acolyte willing to do Trump's bidding.
"From an Intel friend: DNI needs to task NSA to immediately seize and begin looking for international comms related to Dominion," Perry wrote to Meadows on November 12, 2020, just five days after the election was called for Joe Biden.
In the text, which had not been previously reported, Perry appeared to be urging Meadows to get John Ratcliffe, then-Director of National Intelligence, to order the National Security Agency to investigate debunked claims that Dominion voting machines were hacked by China.
A recent court filing also revealed how Perry played a key role in strategizing with Trump allies about throwing out electoral votes in states Trump lost.
n testimony released in April, former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson told House investigators about Perry's role in White House strategy sessions.
"Mr. Perry is one that immediately jumps to mind as me recalling him physically being there and then pushing back," Hutchinson said, describing how the Pennsylvania Republican clashed with Trump's White House counsel over whether the plan for states to submit alternate slate of electors was legally sound.
A text from November 21, 2020, shows that Meadows even went through Perry in order to get in touch with local lawmakers in his state.
"Can you send me the number for the speaker and the leader of PA Legislature. POTUS wants to chat with them," Meadows wrote to Perry.
The texts also show that Perry acted as a conduit between Meadows and Justice Department attorney Jeffrey Clark, a relatively obscure official who emerged as a central figure in Trump's election gambit after the former President nearly named him as acting attorney general days before the US Capitol riot.
The messages draw a direct link between Perry, Clark and the Trump White House-led effort to enlist the Justice Department to help overturn the election.
Last year, the Senate singled out Perry for his role in promoting Trump's election fraud conspiracies.
Text messages in the panel's possession reveal that Perry texted Meadows multiple times to request the conversation move to the encrypted messaging app Signal or to alert Meadows to a message he sent on the encrypted platform.
Such a move could put the exchange out of the committee's reach because Signal does not collect or save user data, making it more difficult to provide that information to outside entities, including law enforcement and congressional investigators, even under subpoena.
Andy Biggs appearance date: May 26 and Mo Brooks appearance date: May 31
The panel reached out to Biggs earlier this month to discuss his participation in planning meetings at the White House and remotely regarding "various aspects of planning for January 6th."
When seeking Biggs' voluntary cooperation, the committee said it wanted to understand "precisely" what he knew before the violence on January 6, "about the purposes, planning, and expectations for the march on the Capitol."
Biggs also was communicating with Meadows about efforts to persuade state legislators that the 2020 election was stolen, and sought their help in trying to overturn the election, according to the communications in the committee's possession.
Brooks caught the committee's attention after he revealed that Trump had repeatedly asked him to work to rescind the 2020 election and remove Biden from office.
January 6 committee issues subpoenas to 5 House Republicans - CNNPolitics
(CNN)The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol is taking the extraordinary step of sending subpoenas to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other Republican lawmakers who have rejected the panel's requests to voluntarily cooperate.
In addition to McCarthy, the Democrat-led panel is subpoenaing Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.
Lawmakers on the panel have been weighing whether to subpoena their Republican colleagues for months, wrestling with whether they had the constitutional right to do so, and debating if they wanted to set such a precedent.
And with hearings less than a month away, the panel is facing a ticking clock to get all the information it can.
"The Select Committee has learned that several of our colleagues have information relevant to our investigation into the attack on January 6th and the events leading up to it," the panel's chairman, Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, said in a statement. "Before we hold our hearings next month, we wished to provide members the opportunity to discuss these matters with the committee voluntarily."
"Regrettably, the individuals receiving subpoenas today have refused and we're forced to take this step to help ensure the committee uncovers facts concerning January 6th," he continued. "We urge our colleagues to comply with the law, do their patriotic duty, and cooperate with our investigation as hundreds of other witnesses have done."
The committee has scheduled the depositions for the members of Congress for the end of May.
CNN has reached out to the five congressmen for comment.
McCarthy would not say whether he plans to comply with a subpoena to appear before the committee, saying he hadn't seen it yet, although he later clarified that his attorney had received it. But he said he still views the committee as illegitimate.
"My view on the committee has not changed," McCarthy said. "They're not conducting a legitimate investigation. They just want to go after their political opponents," he told reporters. "But the one thing that has changed in America: higher inflation ... unsecure border, gas prices and now we don't have baby formula."
Perry would not answer when asked if he would comply with the subpoena.
"This is all for headlines and sensationalism," Perry told CNN. "The fact that they sent it to the press before they send it to the members is just proof it's all about headlines. This whole thing is a charade."
Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California, a member of the committee, said the panel weighed whether to issue subpoenas and what to do if witnesses don't comply.
"This has been something to consider as we approach the end of the interview and deposition process," Schiff said. "We have resolved what we're going to do. So, we're moving forward. ... It was more of a process of sequencing to get a good decision than it was any kind of division among members."
Kevin McCarthy appearance date: May 31
In its initial letter to McCarthy in January, the panel made clear it wanted to question him about his communications with former President Donald Trump, White House staff and others in the week after the January 6 attack, "particularly regarding President Trump's state of mind at that time."
The committee also wanted to understand how McCarthy's public comments since the attack had changed from critical to in defense of Trump over time, and questioned whether Trump pressured him to change his tone when the pair met in late January 2021.
Since the panel's letter to McCarthy, new audio revealed that in the days following the January 6 insurrection, the minority leader had considered asking Trump to resign. Audio has also exposed that McCarthy told Republican lawmakers on a private conference call that Trump had admitted bearing some responsibility for the deadly attack.
The panel first reached out to Jordan, one of Trump's staunchest allies on Capitol Hill, in December to learn more about communications he had with Trump on January 6, and with Trump allies who were stationed in the Willard Hotel war room in the days leading up to the attack.
Jim Jordan appearance date: May 26
Jordan and Trump spoke on the phone in the morning of January 6, 2021, while Trump was in the White House residence, White House call records in the panel's possession, first reported by CNN, showed. Since Jordan first acknowledged that he spoke to Trump on the phone that day, the Ohio Republican and Trump loyalist has waved off questions about it or have been inconsistent in his answers.
Jordan has also previously been identified as one of the lawmakers who sent a text message to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that the committee has in its possession. The message that Jordan forwarded to Meadows on January 5, 2021, outlined a legal theory that then-Vice President Mike Pence had the authority to stand in the way of the certification of the 2020 election.
Jordan was selected by McCarthy back in July to be one of five GOP members on the January 6 committee, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected McCarthy's selection of Jordan, along with GOP Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana, because she said their appointments could impact the "integrity of the investigation." Pelosi's decision led McCarthy to pull all five of his members, which further soured the willingness between the two parties to work together, and led Pelosi to select GOP Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois to serve on the panel.
Scott Perry appearance date: May 26
Perry was the first lawmaker the committee sought voluntary cooperation from because of the key role he played in trying to help Trump undermine the 2020 election. Text messages obtained by CNN that came out after the panel's initial letter, have filled in significant gaps about the role Perry played at almost every turn in scheming to reverse or delay certification of the 2020 election.
Text messages selectively provided by Meadows to the committee, show that Perry was pushing to have the nation's top intelligence official investigate baseless conspiracy theories and worked to replace the US acting attorney general with an acolyte willing to do Trump's bidding.
"From an Intel friend: DNI needs to task NSA to immediately seize and begin looking for international comms related to Dominion," Perry wrote to Meadows on November 12, 2020, just five days after the election was called for Joe Biden.
In the text, which had not been previously reported, Perry appeared to be urging Meadows to get John Ratcliffe, then-Director of National Intelligence, to order the National Security Agency to investigate debunked claims that Dominion voting machines were hacked by China.
A recent court filing also revealed how Perry played a key role in strategizing with Trump allies about throwing out electoral votes in states Trump lost.
n testimony released in April, former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson told House investigators about Perry's role in White House strategy sessions.
"Mr. Perry is one that immediately jumps to mind as me recalling him physically being there and then pushing back," Hutchinson said, describing how the Pennsylvania Republican clashed with Trump's White House counsel over whether the plan for states to submit alternate slate of electors was legally sound.
A text from November 21, 2020, shows that Meadows even went through Perry in order to get in touch with local lawmakers in his state.
"Can you send me the number for the speaker and the leader of PA Legislature. POTUS wants to chat with them," Meadows wrote to Perry.
The texts also show that Perry acted as a conduit between Meadows and Justice Department attorney Jeffrey Clark, a relatively obscure official who emerged as a central figure in Trump's election gambit after the former President nearly named him as acting attorney general days before the US Capitol riot.
The messages draw a direct link between Perry, Clark and the Trump White House-led effort to enlist the Justice Department to help overturn the election.
Last year, the Senate singled out Perry for his role in promoting Trump's election fraud conspiracies.
Text messages in the panel's possession reveal that Perry texted Meadows multiple times to request the conversation move to the encrypted messaging app Signal or to alert Meadows to a message he sent on the encrypted platform.
Such a move could put the exchange out of the committee's reach because Signal does not collect or save user data, making it more difficult to provide that information to outside entities, including law enforcement and congressional investigators, even under subpoena.
Andy Biggs appearance date: May 26 and Mo Brooks appearance date: May 31
The panel reached out to Biggs earlier this month to discuss his participation in planning meetings at the White House and remotely regarding "various aspects of planning for January 6th."
When seeking Biggs' voluntary cooperation, the committee said it wanted to understand "precisely" what he knew before the violence on January 6, "about the purposes, planning, and expectations for the march on the Capitol."
Biggs also was communicating with Meadows about efforts to persuade state legislators that the 2020 election was stolen, and sought their help in trying to overturn the election, according to the communications in the committee's possession.
Brooks caught the committee's attention after he revealed that Trump had repeatedly asked him to work to rescind the 2020 election and remove Biden from office.
January 6 committee issues subpoenas to 5 House Republicans - CNNPolitics
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Evidence doesn't matter. Even with receipts, hard black and white documents, audio, and video evidence the GOP will laugh and call it a fake news which hunt. Their supporters just don't care about the insurrection, because it failed. And the DOJ is useless.
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Justice Dept. Requests Transcripts From Jan. 6 Committee
The committee has interviewed more than 1,000 people so far, and the transcripts could be used as evidence in potential criminal cases or to pursue new leads.
The move comes amid signs that Attorney General Merrick B. Garland is accelerating the pace of his investigation into the Capitol attack.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has asked the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack for transcripts of interviews it is conducting, which have included discussions with associates of former President Donald J. Trump, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
The move, coming as Attorney General Merrick B. Garland appears to be ramping up the pace of his painstaking investigation into the Capitol riot, is the clearest sign yet of a wide-ranging inquiry at the Justice Department.
The House committee has interviewed more than 1,000 people so far, and the transcripts could be used as evidence in potential criminal cases, to pursue new leads or as a baseline text for new interviews conducted by federal law enforcement officials.
Aides to Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, have yet to reach a final agreement with the Justice Department on what will be turned over, according to a person with knowledge of the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the confidential nature of the investigations.
On April 20, Kenneth A. Polite Jr., the assistant attorney general for the criminal division, and Matthew M. Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, wrote to Timothy J. Heaphy, the lead investigator for the House panel, advising him that some committee interviews “may contain information relevant to a criminal investigation we are conducting.”
Mr. Polite and Mr. Graves did not indicate the number of transcripts they were requesting or whether any interviews were of particular interest. In their letter, they made a broad request, asking that the panel “provide to us transcripts of these interviews, and of any additional interviews you conduct in the future.”
Spokesmen for the Justice Department and the House committee declined to comment.
The Justice Department’s investigation has been operating on a separate track from the committee’s work. Generally, investigators working on the two inquiries have not been sharing information, except for at times communicating to ensure that a witness is not scheduled to appear before different investigators at the same time, according to a person with knowledge of the inquiries.
Thus far, the Justice Department’s investigation has focused more on lower-level activists who stormed the Capitol than on the planners of the attack. But in recent weeks, Mr. Garland has bolstered the core team tasked with handling the most sensitive and politically combustible elements of the inquiry.
Several months ago, the department quietly detailed a veteran federal prosecutor from Maryland, Thomas Windom, to the department’s headquarters. He is overseeing the politically fraught question of whether a case can be made related to other efforts to overturn the election, aside from the storming of the Capitol. That task could move the investigation closer to Mr. Trump and his inner circle.
A subpoena reviewed by The New York Times indicates that the Justice Department is exploring the actions taken by rally planners.
Prosecutors have begun asking for records about people who organized or spoke at several pro-Trump rallies after the 2020 election as well as anyone who provided security at those events, and about those who were deemed to be “V.I.P. attendees.”
They are also seeking information about any members of the executive and legislative branches who may have taken part in planning or executing the rallies, or tried to “obstruct, influence, impede or delay” the certification of the election, as the subpoena put it.
The Justice Department’s request for transcripts underscores how much ground the House committee has covered, and the unusual nature of a situation where a well-staffed congressional investigation has obtained testimony from key witnesses before a grand jury investigation.
The House committee, made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans, is led by Mr. Thompson and Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, one of only two House Republicans to embrace an inquiry scrutinizing the actions of their own party. The panel has about 45 employees, including more than a dozen former federal prosecutors and two former U.S. attorneys, and is spending more than $1.6 million per quarter on its work.
The committee has obtained documents and testimony from a wide range of witnesses, including more than a dozen Trump White House officials, rally planners and some of the rioters themselves. Those witnesses have included White House lawyers; Justice Department officials; security officers; members of the National Guard; staff members close to Vice President Mike Pence; members of Mr. Trump’s personal legal team; Republicans who participated in a scheme to put forward pro-Trump electors from states won by Joseph R. Biden Jr.; Mr. Trump’s own family members; and the leaders of right-wing militia groups.
At least 16 Trump allies have signaled they will not fully cooperate with the committee. Faced with such resistance, investigators on the panel have taken a page out of organized crime prosecutions and have quietly turned at least six lower-level Trump administration staff members into witnesses who have provided information about their bosses’ activities.
Some of those witnesses — including an aide to Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff — have provided critical information.
The committee also has tried to obtain testimony from Republican members of Congress, and it issued subpoenas to five lawmakers last week. Those members have denigrated the panel’s work but have declined to say whether they would participate in the interviews, which are scheduled for the end of May. One of the lawmakers, Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, said he received his subpoena on Monday and was reviewing it.
Mr. Garland and his top aides have been careful about not disclosing their investigative methods, and they have sought to emphasize their impartiality in limited public comments about the investigation.
“We investigate conduct and crimes, not people or viewpoints,” the deputy attorney general, Lisa O. Monaco, said last week during an interview at the University of Chicago.
“We follow the evidence,” she added. “It is very important to do that methodically.”
Justice Dept. Requests Transcripts From Jan. 6 Committee - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
The committee has interviewed more than 1,000 people so far, and the transcripts could be used as evidence in potential criminal cases or to pursue new leads.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has asked the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack for transcripts of interviews it is conducting, which have included discussions with associates of former President Donald J. Trump, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
The move, coming as Attorney General Merrick B. Garland appears to be ramping up the pace of his painstaking investigation into the Capitol riot, is the clearest sign yet of a wide-ranging inquiry at the Justice Department.
The House committee has interviewed more than 1,000 people so far, and the transcripts could be used as evidence in potential criminal cases, to pursue new leads or as a baseline text for new interviews conducted by federal law enforcement officials.
Aides to Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, have yet to reach a final agreement with the Justice Department on what will be turned over, according to a person with knowledge of the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the confidential nature of the investigations.
On April 20, Kenneth A. Polite Jr., the assistant attorney general for the criminal division, and Matthew M. Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, wrote to Timothy J. Heaphy, the lead investigator for the House panel, advising him that some committee interviews “may contain information relevant to a criminal investigation we are conducting.”
Mr. Polite and Mr. Graves did not indicate the number of transcripts they were requesting or whether any interviews were of particular interest. In their letter, they made a broad request, asking that the panel “provide to us transcripts of these interviews, and of any additional interviews you conduct in the future.”
Spokesmen for the Justice Department and the House committee declined to comment.
The Justice Department’s investigation has been operating on a separate track from the committee’s work. Generally, investigators working on the two inquiries have not been sharing information, except for at times communicating to ensure that a witness is not scheduled to appear before different investigators at the same time, according to a person with knowledge of the inquiries.
Thus far, the Justice Department’s investigation has focused more on lower-level activists who stormed the Capitol than on the planners of the attack. But in recent weeks, Mr. Garland has bolstered the core team tasked with handling the most sensitive and politically combustible elements of the inquiry.
Several months ago, the department quietly detailed a veteran federal prosecutor from Maryland, Thomas Windom, to the department’s headquarters. He is overseeing the politically fraught question of whether a case can be made related to other efforts to overturn the election, aside from the storming of the Capitol. That task could move the investigation closer to Mr. Trump and his inner circle.
A subpoena reviewed by The New York Times indicates that the Justice Department is exploring the actions taken by rally planners.
Prosecutors have begun asking for records about people who organized or spoke at several pro-Trump rallies after the 2020 election as well as anyone who provided security at those events, and about those who were deemed to be “V.I.P. attendees.”
They are also seeking information about any members of the executive and legislative branches who may have taken part in planning or executing the rallies, or tried to “obstruct, influence, impede or delay” the certification of the election, as the subpoena put it.
The Justice Department’s request for transcripts underscores how much ground the House committee has covered, and the unusual nature of a situation where a well-staffed congressional investigation has obtained testimony from key witnesses before a grand jury investigation.
The House committee, made up of seven Democrats and two Republicans, is led by Mr. Thompson and Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, one of only two House Republicans to embrace an inquiry scrutinizing the actions of their own party. The panel has about 45 employees, including more than a dozen former federal prosecutors and two former U.S. attorneys, and is spending more than $1.6 million per quarter on its work.
The committee has obtained documents and testimony from a wide range of witnesses, including more than a dozen Trump White House officials, rally planners and some of the rioters themselves. Those witnesses have included White House lawyers; Justice Department officials; security officers; members of the National Guard; staff members close to Vice President Mike Pence; members of Mr. Trump’s personal legal team; Republicans who participated in a scheme to put forward pro-Trump electors from states won by Joseph R. Biden Jr.; Mr. Trump’s own family members; and the leaders of right-wing militia groups.
At least 16 Trump allies have signaled they will not fully cooperate with the committee. Faced with such resistance, investigators on the panel have taken a page out of organized crime prosecutions and have quietly turned at least six lower-level Trump administration staff members into witnesses who have provided information about their bosses’ activities.
Some of those witnesses — including an aide to Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff — have provided critical information.
The committee also has tried to obtain testimony from Republican members of Congress, and it issued subpoenas to five lawmakers last week. Those members have denigrated the panel’s work but have declined to say whether they would participate in the interviews, which are scheduled for the end of May. One of the lawmakers, Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, said he received his subpoena on Monday and was reviewing it.
Mr. Garland and his top aides have been careful about not disclosing their investigative methods, and they have sought to emphasize their impartiality in limited public comments about the investigation.
“We investigate conduct and crimes, not people or viewpoints,” the deputy attorney general, Lisa O. Monaco, said last week during an interview at the University of Chicago.
“We follow the evidence,” she added. “It is very important to do that methodically.”
Justice Dept. Requests Transcripts From Jan. 6 Committee - The New York Times (nytimes.com)
John Cena's putting in a lot of work....
January 6 committee investigating Capitol tour given by GOP lawmaker on the eve of the insurrection
(CNN)The House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection said Thursday it has evidence that GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk led a tour of the US Capitol complex the day before pro-Trump rioters stormed the building, according to a letter requesting the Republican lawmaker's voluntary cooperation with their ongoing probe.
The letter notes the committee has reviewed evidence that "directly contradicts" previous claims by Republican lawmakers who said security footage from the days before January 6 shows "[t]here were no tours, no large groups, no one with MAGA hats on" of the US Capitol complex.
The committee is now looking for more information from Loudermilk about the purpose of the tour he led of the Capitol complex on January 5, 2021, and its participants.
"Based on our review of evidence in the Select Committee's possession, we believe you have information regarding a tour you led through parts of the Capitol complex on January 5, 2021," Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, and Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, wrote in the letter.
"The foregoing information raises questions to which the Select Committee must seek answers. Public reporting and witness accounts indicate some individuals and groups engaged in efforts to gather information about the layout of the U.S. Capitol, as well as the House and Senate office buildings, in advance of January 6, 2021," they added.
A spokesperson for Loudermilk has not immediately returned a request for comment from CNN.
The letter comes more than a year after some House Democrats accused Republicans of providing tours in the days leading up to January 6 to individuals who later stormed the Capitol.
Rep. Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat from New Jersey, accused Republicans in the days after the insurrection of providing tours to people who then used the information they learned from their visit about the complex's layout to aid in their attempt to interrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election results. But Sherrill didn't name any Republicans.
Sherrill told a virtual town hall on January 12, 2021, that "members of Congress who had groups coming through the Capitol that I saw on January 5th for reconnaissance for the next day." The congresswoman never provided specific details or named which member of Congress gave the tours -- even after widespread criticism from Republicans, demanding she provide evidence to back up her claim.
Several Republican members denied providing any such tours, and it was Loudermilk who filed an ethics complaint last year against Sherrill and 33 other Democrats, accusing them of making allegations about Republican-led reconnaissance tours without any evidence.
"A Member of Congress accusing another Member of committing a crime, without evidence, is morally reprehensible and a stain on this institution," Loudermilk wrote in the complaint. "No Republican Member of Congress led any kind of 'reconnaissance' tours through the Capitol, proven by security footage captured by the U.S. Capitol Police."
"My Republican colleagues and I will not sit by while Democrats accuse their colleagues of treason for political gain. This type of conduct must not be tolerated," he wrote, urging the House Ethics Committee to "take quick and decisive action to ensure this never happens again."
A spokesperson for the House Ethics Committee declined to comment on the status of the Loudermilk ethics complaint.
In February, GOP Rep. Rodney Davis, the top Republican on the House Administration Committee, also said a review of security footage from the Capitol complex prior to January 6, 2021 "does not support these repeated Democrat accusations about so-called 'reconnaissance' tours."
"We have reviewed the security footage from the Capitol Complex during the relevant period preceding January 6, 2021, and we know it does not support these repeated Democrat accusations about so-called 'reconnaissance' tours. Regrettably, the truth has not stopped these Democrat allegations," Davis wrote at the time.
While Democrats making the accusations have yet to provide additional evidence to back up the claims, they have also refused to back away from the accusation.
According the letter, the committee has obtained evidence that contradicts previous GOP denials that any tours took place in the days before January 6, 2021 -- raising questions about the one given by Loudermilk and its purpose.
Loudermilk has not been among the most notable GOP lawmakers who have emerged as potential witnesses in the committee's ongoing probe.
However, CNN previously reported that he was among the Republican lawmakers who texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on January 6.
"It's really bad up here on the hill. They have breached the Capitol," Loudermilk wrote to Meadows at the time.
"POTUS is engaging," Meadows sent in response to Loudermilk.
"Thanks. This doesn't help our cause," Loudermilk replied.
January 6 committee investigating Capitol tour given by GOP lawmaker on the eve of the insurrection - CNNPolitics
January 6 committee investigating Capitol tour given by GOP lawmaker on the eve of the insurrection
(CNN)The House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection said Thursday it has evidence that GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk led a tour of the US Capitol complex the day before pro-Trump rioters stormed the building, according to a letter requesting the Republican lawmaker's voluntary cooperation with their ongoing probe.
The letter notes the committee has reviewed evidence that "directly contradicts" previous claims by Republican lawmakers who said security footage from the days before January 6 shows "[t]here were no tours, no large groups, no one with MAGA hats on" of the US Capitol complex.
The committee is now looking for more information from Loudermilk about the purpose of the tour he led of the Capitol complex on January 5, 2021, and its participants.
"Based on our review of evidence in the Select Committee's possession, we believe you have information regarding a tour you led through parts of the Capitol complex on January 5, 2021," Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, and Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, wrote in the letter.
"The foregoing information raises questions to which the Select Committee must seek answers. Public reporting and witness accounts indicate some individuals and groups engaged in efforts to gather information about the layout of the U.S. Capitol, as well as the House and Senate office buildings, in advance of January 6, 2021," they added.
A spokesperson for Loudermilk has not immediately returned a request for comment from CNN.
The letter comes more than a year after some House Democrats accused Republicans of providing tours in the days leading up to January 6 to individuals who later stormed the Capitol.
Rep. Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat from New Jersey, accused Republicans in the days after the insurrection of providing tours to people who then used the information they learned from their visit about the complex's layout to aid in their attempt to interrupt the certification of the 2020 presidential election results. But Sherrill didn't name any Republicans.
Sherrill told a virtual town hall on January 12, 2021, that "members of Congress who had groups coming through the Capitol that I saw on January 5th for reconnaissance for the next day." The congresswoman never provided specific details or named which member of Congress gave the tours -- even after widespread criticism from Republicans, demanding she provide evidence to back up her claim.
Several Republican members denied providing any such tours, and it was Loudermilk who filed an ethics complaint last year against Sherrill and 33 other Democrats, accusing them of making allegations about Republican-led reconnaissance tours without any evidence.
"A Member of Congress accusing another Member of committing a crime, without evidence, is morally reprehensible and a stain on this institution," Loudermilk wrote in the complaint. "No Republican Member of Congress led any kind of 'reconnaissance' tours through the Capitol, proven by security footage captured by the U.S. Capitol Police."
"My Republican colleagues and I will not sit by while Democrats accuse their colleagues of treason for political gain. This type of conduct must not be tolerated," he wrote, urging the House Ethics Committee to "take quick and decisive action to ensure this never happens again."
A spokesperson for the House Ethics Committee declined to comment on the status of the Loudermilk ethics complaint.
In February, GOP Rep. Rodney Davis, the top Republican on the House Administration Committee, also said a review of security footage from the Capitol complex prior to January 6, 2021 "does not support these repeated Democrat accusations about so-called 'reconnaissance' tours."
"We have reviewed the security footage from the Capitol Complex during the relevant period preceding January 6, 2021, and we know it does not support these repeated Democrat accusations about so-called 'reconnaissance' tours. Regrettably, the truth has not stopped these Democrat allegations," Davis wrote at the time.
While Democrats making the accusations have yet to provide additional evidence to back up the claims, they have also refused to back away from the accusation.
According the letter, the committee has obtained evidence that contradicts previous GOP denials that any tours took place in the days before January 6, 2021 -- raising questions about the one given by Loudermilk and its purpose.
Loudermilk has not been among the most notable GOP lawmakers who have emerged as potential witnesses in the committee's ongoing probe.
However, CNN previously reported that he was among the Republican lawmakers who texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on January 6.
"It's really bad up here on the hill. They have breached the Capitol," Loudermilk wrote to Meadows at the time.
"POTUS is engaging," Meadows sent in response to Loudermilk.
"Thanks. This doesn't help our cause," Loudermilk replied.
January 6 committee investigating Capitol tour given by GOP lawmaker on the eve of the insurrection - CNNPolitics
Scoop: Bill Barr in discussions to cooperate with Jan. 6 committee
President Trump's attorney general Bill Barr is in active discussions with the Jan. 6th investigative committee to appear for a formal transcribed interview, according to two sources with direct knowledge.
Driving the news: Barr is likely to cooperate with the committee, according to a source familiar with his thinking.
As Axios previously reported, Trump berated Barr repeatedly to get the Justice Department to declare the 2020 election stolen. Barr refused.
Bill Barr in discussions to cooperate with Jan. 6 committee (axios.com)
President Trump's attorney general Bill Barr is in active discussions with the Jan. 6th investigative committee to appear for a formal transcribed interview, according to two sources with direct knowledge.
Driving the news: Barr is likely to cooperate with the committee, according to a source familiar with his thinking.
- Tim Mulvey, a spokesman for the Jan. 6 committee, declined to comment.
As Axios previously reported, Trump berated Barr repeatedly to get the Justice Department to declare the 2020 election stolen. Barr refused.
- Barr told Trump in a meeting on December 1, 2020 that his theories about a stolen election were "bullshit."
- Barr also called Trump's new legal team at the time "clownish."
- "I'm a pretty informed legal observer and I can't fucking figure out what the theory is here," Barr added. "It's just scattershot. It's all over the hill and gone."
Bill Barr in discussions to cooperate with Jan. 6 committee (axios.com)
Giuliani meets with Jan. 6 committee virtually for nine hours
The House panel subpoenaed Giuliani in January and cited what they called his efforts to “convince state legislators to take steps to overturn the election results.”
Rudy Giuliani during a press conference at the Republican National Committee on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on, Nov. 19, 2020, in Washington.
WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani, one of the most prominent promoters of former President Donald Trump's lies about a stolen election, testified Friday before the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 riot, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
One source told NBC News that the onetime Trump attorney met with the Democratic-controlled House committee for roughly nine hours, including breaks.
NBC News has reached out to Giuliani’s attorney for comment. The Jan. 6 committee declined to comment.
CNN first reported on Giuliani’s virtual appearance.
The committee in January subpoenaed Giuliani and three other Trump allies — Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Boris Epshteyn — over efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
The committee said at the time that its interest in Giuliani stemmed from his efforts to, among other things, “convince state legislators to take steps to overturn the election results.” Giuliani was in contact with Trump and members of Congress “regarding strategies for delaying or overturning the results of the 2020 election,” the subpoena states.
That same month, the panel issued subpoenas to 14 of the 84 so-called alternate electors who falsely claimed Trump had won the election in their states.
In February, the committee subpoenaed six people who it said were involved in organizing alternate electors to challenge President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory. Among them was Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano, who recently won the GOP primary for governor.
The House committee has interviewed more than 1,000 people in its probe.
Giuliani's testimony on Friday comes weeks after a previously scheduled meeting was scrapped at the last minute when the House committee denied a request to record the proceedings.
Giuliani meets with Jan. 6 committee for nine hours (nbcnews.com)
The House panel subpoenaed Giuliani in January and cited what they called his efforts to “convince state legislators to take steps to overturn the election results.”
Rudy Giuliani during a press conference at the Republican National Committee on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on, Nov. 19, 2020, in Washington.
WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani, one of the most prominent promoters of former President Donald Trump's lies about a stolen election, testified Friday before the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 riot, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
One source told NBC News that the onetime Trump attorney met with the Democratic-controlled House committee for roughly nine hours, including breaks.
NBC News has reached out to Giuliani’s attorney for comment. The Jan. 6 committee declined to comment.
CNN first reported on Giuliani’s virtual appearance.
The committee in January subpoenaed Giuliani and three other Trump allies — Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell and Boris Epshteyn — over efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
The committee said at the time that its interest in Giuliani stemmed from his efforts to, among other things, “convince state legislators to take steps to overturn the election results.” Giuliani was in contact with Trump and members of Congress “regarding strategies for delaying or overturning the results of the 2020 election,” the subpoena states.
That same month, the panel issued subpoenas to 14 of the 84 so-called alternate electors who falsely claimed Trump had won the election in their states.
In February, the committee subpoenaed six people who it said were involved in organizing alternate electors to challenge President Joe Biden's 2020 election victory. Among them was Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano, who recently won the GOP primary for governor.
The House committee has interviewed more than 1,000 people in its probe.
Giuliani's testimony on Friday comes weeks after a previously scheduled meeting was scrapped at the last minute when the House committee denied a request to record the proceedings.
Giuliani meets with Jan. 6 committee for nine hours (nbcnews.com)
Capitol attack panel to hold six public hearings, 2 prime time, as it aims to show how Trump broke law
Panel aims to publicly outline the potentially unlawful schemes that tried to keep the former president in office despite his defeat
The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol is expected to stage six public hearings in June on how Donald Trump and some allies broke the law as they sought to overturn the 2020 election results, according to sources familiar with the inquiry.
The hearings are set to be a pivotal political moment for the country as the panel aims to publicly outline the potentially unlawful schemes that tried to keep the former president in office despite his defeat at the hands of Joe Biden.
According to a draft schedule reviewed by the Guardian, the select committee intends to hold six hearings, with the first and last in prime time, where its lawyers will run through how Trump’s schemes took shape before the election and culminated with the Capitol attack.
“We want to paint a picture as clear as possible as to what occurred,” the chairman of the select committee, Congressman Bennie Thompson, recently told reporters. “The public needs to know what to think. We just have to show clearly what happened on January 6.”
The select committee has already alleged that Trump violated multiple federal laws to overturn the 2020 election, including obstructing Congress and defrauding the United States. But the hearings are where the panel intends to show how they reached those conclusions.
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Capitol attack panel to hold six public hearings as it aims to show how Trump broke law | US Capitol attack | The Guardian
Panel aims to publicly outline the potentially unlawful schemes that tried to keep the former president in office despite his defeat
The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol is expected to stage six public hearings in June on how Donald Trump and some allies broke the law as they sought to overturn the 2020 election results, according to sources familiar with the inquiry.
The hearings are set to be a pivotal political moment for the country as the panel aims to publicly outline the potentially unlawful schemes that tried to keep the former president in office despite his defeat at the hands of Joe Biden.
According to a draft schedule reviewed by the Guardian, the select committee intends to hold six hearings, with the first and last in prime time, where its lawyers will run through how Trump’s schemes took shape before the election and culminated with the Capitol attack.
“We want to paint a picture as clear as possible as to what occurred,” the chairman of the select committee, Congressman Bennie Thompson, recently told reporters. “The public needs to know what to think. We just have to show clearly what happened on January 6.”
The select committee has already alleged that Trump violated multiple federal laws to overturn the 2020 election, including obstructing Congress and defrauding the United States. But the hearings are where the panel intends to show how they reached those conclusions.
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Capitol attack panel to hold six public hearings as it aims to show how Trump broke law | US Capitol attack | The Guardian
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