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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

‘It was a war scene’: Caroline Edwards describes Capitol attack violence

The Capitol police officer, who was injured in the insurrection, said she saw colleagues ‘bleeding, on the ground, throwing up’

The Guardian - US

Dozens gather at Chicago bar to watch the first of a series of televised hearings on the Capitol riot investigation

CHICAGO — Justin Hill, who moved back to Chicago two years ago after living and working abroad for some time, said he was out of the country on Jan. 6, 2021, when droves of people swarmed the U.S. Capitol.

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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

Fox News trashes hearing it didn't air

Tucker Carlson cut away from video of the violence inside the Capitol while bragging about telling "the truth"

Salon

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

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…

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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.

France 24

Liz Cheney's message to GOP members who continue to support Trump: 'Your dishonor will remain'

"Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain," Cheney says.

WEKU

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

Video incorporates bodycam footage, documentary scenes

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

Fox News reacts to Jan 6 hearing by airing Tucker Carlson calling it ‘deranged’

Carlson has repeatedly played down the attack on the US Capitol

The Independent UK

US Jan 6 committee hearing focuses on Trump – A timeline

Trump ‘summoned rioters’, lit flame of attack on Capitol and failed to stop it, says committee vice-chair Liz Cheney.

Al Jazeera

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

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The Jan. 6 committee is holding hearings on its investigation of the Capitol riot

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is holding about a half a dozen public hearings this month on what it has learned so far. The first is on June 9 at 8 p.m.

Salon

Here's how to prosecute Donald Trump

The hardest part will be establishing Trump's criminal intent. That's what the Jan. 6 hearings should provide

The Independent UK

Biden calls Jan 6 ‘flagrant violation of Constitution’ after Trump said it was ‘greatest movement in history’

Biden made comments during summit meeting with Canadian prime minister

The Guardian - US

Michigan candidate for governor arrested for participating in Capitol riot

Republican Ryan Kelley was caught on video shouting ‘this is war’ on the steps of the Capitol

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Salon

Republican confronted Boebert over Jan 6

New audio also shows Kevin McCarthy demand investigation into attack — before completely reversing his position

The Independent UK

Jan 6 committee teases unreleased video footage of Capitol riot

Panel will have first primetime hearing Thursday evening

The Guardian - US

What to know about the public January 6 committee hearings

House panel investigating the Capitol attack will hold six public hearings where it will unveil new evidence against Trump

Salon

GOP tries to undermine Jan. 6 hearings

House Republicans claim the committee is dead-set on ending the Electoral College and preventing another Trump win

The Independent UK

How to watch the Jan 6 hearings online and on TV

Cable news broadcasters expected to focus their coverage on the hearings and other outlets are likely to show the hearings on their websites and YouTube channels

Salon

America's emotional state: Getting worse

Trump's grotesque performance at the NRA convention was only a symptom of America's profound emotional sickness

The Independent UK

Jan. 6 Capitol attack committee goes prime time with probe

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection is set to unveil as-yet-unreleased video, audio and a “mountain of evidence” in its prime-time hearing

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