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Key takeaways from US Congress hearing on January 6 Capitol riot

Trump took centre stage as US lawmakers pushed to highlight the danger and violence of the 2021 attack on US Capitol.

Al Jazeera

Jan. 6 hearing gives primetime exposure to violent footage and dramatic evidence – the question is, to what end?

A violent mob of Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, intent on disrupting a joint session of Congress that was meeting to count electoral votes and declare Democrat Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

The Conversation

Donald Trump, the Proud Boys and shocking video: The key moments from the first January 6 committee hearing

Armed with new videos, text messages and emails, the committee investigating the riots at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, has laid out its evidence for the American public. Here's what we learned.

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"I was slipping in people’s blood": Eyewitnesses testify at Jan. 6 hearing

"It was carnage. It was chaos. I can’t even describe what I saw."

Axios

Jan. 6 attack on Capitol the ‘culmination of an attempted coup,’ chairman says

WASHINGTON — Americans watching the first Jan. 6 Select Committee hearing Thursday night were jolted back to the horror of the Capitol attack in early 2021, with the panel deploying never-before-seen footage of violence and graphic, emotional testimony from an officer wounded in the melee to place then-President Donald Trump…

Los Angeles Times

Jan. 6 attack on Capitol the ‘culmination of an attempted coup,’ chairman says

WASHINGTON — As rioters battered police and stormed inside the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump grew angry with advisers pleading with him to do something, Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney said Thursday in the first hearing by the House select committee investigating the attack.

Los Angeles Times

Trump spurred ‘attempted coup’ at US Capitol, January 6 panel tells hearing

The House panel investigating the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol laid the blame firmly on Donald Trump Thursday night, saying the assault was hardly spontaneous but an “attempted coup” and a direct result of the defeated president’s effort to overturn the 2020 election.

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Jan 6 police officers cry in hearing as committee shows video of violence

Video incorporates bodycam footage, documentary scenes

The Independent UK

Takeaways: Jan. 6 panel says Trump led 'brazen' conspiracy

House investigators are making the case to the American public that the violent insurrection by President Donald Trump’s supporters should not be forgotten

The Independent UK

Bennie Thompson says Jan. 6 was the 'culmination of an attempted coup'

The chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection called the attack a "culmination of an attempted coup," in opening remarks at Thursday's hearing about that day's riot.

WEKU

Jan. 6 hearings to lay out ‘scheme ... to undermine the will of the people,’ chairman says

WASHINGTON — The House Select Committee investigating what caused the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is beginning a series of hearings Thursday evening by laying out its evidence of a coordinated effort to stop certification of the 2020 presidential election and keep former President Donald Trump in office.

Los Angeles Times

Cheney unleashes on GOP colleagues who asked Trump for pardons after Jan 6: ‘Your dishonour will remain’

Select committee chairman Bennie Thompson opened Thursday’s prime-time hearing with a warning to Americans that the ‘conspiracy to thwart the will of the people’ which led to the 6 January 2021 attack on the Capitol remains ongoing

The Independent UK

McCarthy rips Democrats over GOP bill that called Jan. 6 ‘domestic terrorist attack’ - Roll Call

Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy touted a measure to create a “National Commission on the Domestic Terrorist Attack” on the Capitol.

Roll Call

January 6 hearings: who are the key players on the House committee?

The panel features Democrats and Republicans and counts on a staff of investigators who have interviewed over 1,000 witnesses

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Axios

What to expect from tonight's prime-time Jan. 6 hearing

Never-before-seen recordings and documentation from closed-door depositions with key Trump officials and family members.

Roll Call

Jan. 6 panel to begin presenting its findings while House GOP fights to mitigate political damage - Roll Call

Republicans are ramping up their continued efforts to undermine the legitimacy of the Jan. 6 committee's work.

The Independent UK

Testimony from Ivanka and close Trump confidantes could be shown at January 6 committee opening hearing

A committee staffer says the panel’s opening presentation will ‘include senior Trump White House officials, senior Trump administration officials, Trump campaign officials, and indeed, Trump family members’

The Independent UK

Four key questions for the January 6 committee hearings to answer

The select committee will unveil its findings over a series a public hearings which will begin Thursday at 8pm

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The Independent UK

Jan. 6 committee's members are on diverging political paths

The nine members of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection find themselves on diverging political paths as each prepares for a defining moment in their careers as the series of public hearings begins

Benzinga

Twitter Fights Jan 6 Panel Demand For Internal Slack Messages During Capitol Riots: Report

Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) is reportedly pushing back against demands from a committee probing the Jan. 6 Capitol riots to hand over its internal communications about moderation on its platform.

WEKU

Jan. 6 committee Chair Bennie Thompson says the U.S. came close to losing democracy

Fighting for civil rights and three decades in the House have primed Mississippi's Bennie Thompson for the most high-profile moment of his career — leading this month's hearings on Jan. 6.

The Guardian - AU

Inaugural January 6 hearing to track activities of Proud Boys during Capitol attack

The House select committee investigating the insurrection will examine several crucial stages in the lead up to the first breach of the Capitol

The Conversation

How a public hearing is different from an investigation – and what that means for the Jan. 6 committee

On Thursday, June 9, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol holds the first of several public hearings.

Los Angeles Times

Who's who on the Jan. 6 committee? A guide to the House members at the hearings

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the nation's Capitol will begin a series of six televised hearings on Thursday.

Tribune News Service

First of many ‘touchstones’ starts Thursday in prime time for Jan. 6 committee

WASHINGTON — The first time the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection gathered for a public hearing, members heard from law enforcement officers who were physically assaulted, verbally abused and traumatized by pro-Donald Trump rioters who stormed the building.

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