Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Live feed From 9m ago 20. 29 Republican congressman says Trump was ‘derelict in his duty’ Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republican lawmakers on the January 6 committee and an Air Force veteran, said Trump violated his oath of office during the attack. “ Our hearings have shown many ways in which President Trump tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power in the days leading up to January 6, with each step of his plan, and betrayed his oath of office, and was derelict in his duty,” Kinzinger said in his opening remarks.
Updated at 20. 32 EDT Key events 9m ago Republican congressman says Trump was ‘derelict in his duty’ 21m ago ‘Dam has begun to break’, Cheney says, as she announces further hearings 35m ago January 6 committee begins hearing exploring what Trump was doing as Capitol was attacked 38m ago January 6 committee plans September hearings 1h ago Watchdog launches criminal investigation into missing Secret Service texts around January 6 riot – reports 3h ago In final scheduled hearing, January 6 committee to press case Trump broke the law Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature now 20. 38 Elaine Luria, the Virginia Democrat who is currently leading the committee’s presentation, just showed a picture of Trump in the Oval Office shortly after his speech to the crowd that went on to attack the Capitol.
“ A White House employee informed the president as soon as he returned to the Oval about the riot at the Capitol,” Luria said. “Let me repeat that. Within 15 minutes of leaving the stage, president Trump knew that the Capitol was besieged and under attack.
” Earlier, former Washington DC police officer Mark Robinson , who was part of Trump’s motorcade on January 6, testified that even after Trump had been taken back to the White House, he still wanted to go to the Capitol, but was prevented by the Secret Service. 9m ago 20. 29 Republican congressman says Trump was ‘derelict in his duty’ Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republican lawmakers on the January 6 committee and an Air Force veteran, said Trump violated his oath of office during the attack.
“ Our hearings have shown many ways in which President Trump tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power in the days leading up to January 6, with each step of his plan, and betrayed his oath of office, and was derelict in his duty,” Kinzinger said in his opening remarks. Updated at 20. 32 EDT 10m ago 20.
28 Maanvi Singh Two former Trump White House aides who resigned shortly after January 6, Matthew Pottinger and Sarah Matthews, are testifying. Matthew Pottinger Pottinger resigned as deputy national security adviser in response the January 6, the highest-ranking White House official (other than cabinet secretaries) to do so. During a previously aired clip of tesimony he gave, he said he decided to quit after seeing a Trump tweet saying that Mike Pence should have had more courage.
He is a former US Marine and fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, and had worked as a reporter fo Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. Sarah Matthews Matthews was the former deputy press secretary. She resigned, saying she was “was deeply disturbed by what I saw” on January 6.
A “lifelong Republican”, Matthews previously worked as a spokesperson for Trump’s reelection campaign. Updated at 20. 31 EDT 21m ago 20.
17 ‘Dam has begun to break’, Cheney says, as she announces further hearings The committee’s Republican vice-chair Liz Cheney announced lawmakers will hold more hearings in September due to the emergence of new evidence concerning the insurrection. “In the course of these hearings, we have received new evidence and new witnesses have bravely stepped forward. Efforts to litigate and overcome immunity and executive privilege claims have been successful, and those continue.
Doors have opened, new subpoenas have been issued and the dam has begun to break. And now, even as we conduct our ninth hearing, we have considerably more to do,” she said. “Our committee will spend August pursuing emerging information on multiple fronts before convening further hearings” the following month, Cheney said.
Updated at 20. 20 EDT 25m ago 20. 13 Thompson concluded his remarks with a call for those involved in the attack to be held accountable.
“Our democracy withstood the attack on January 6, but if there is no accountability for January 6, for every part of this scheme, I fear that we will not overcome the ongoing threat to our democracy. There must be stiff consequences for those responsible,” the Mississippi Democrat said. 29m ago 20.
09 In his opening address via video link, committee chair Bennie Thompson has painted a picture of Donald Trump sitting in the White House and refusing to do anything as violence unfolded at the Capitol just two miles away. “ Donald Trump ignored and disregarded the desperate pleas of his own family, including Ivanka and Don Jr,” Thompson said. “ He could not be moved to rise from his dining room table and walk the few steps down the White House hallway into the press briefing room, where cameras were anxiously and desperately waiting to carry his message to the armed and violent mob savagely beating and killing law enforcement officers defending the Capitol.
” Updated at 20. 25 EDT 33m ago 20. 06 David Smith It has been billed as the “season finale” and there is certainly electricity in the air.
The Cannon Caucus Room is buzzing with reporters, photographers, TV camera operators, police officers, congressional aides and spectators ahead of the eighth and – for now – final hearing of the congressional January 6 committee. Unlike an austere courtroom on the day of a trial, a loud hubbub of voices is filling the ornate and cavernous room, where two chandeliers shine brightly, as people discuss what’s to come (or where they’re heading for the summer). Reporters from the US and all over the world are tightly packed around desks with an overflow on the front row of the public gallery.
Photographers gathered beneath the dais to take close-up shots of the witnesses. Former US Capitol police officer Michael Fanone is sitting nearby. Members of the committee entered just after 8pm but this time Liz Cheney is in the chair because the usual chairman, Bennie Thompson, has come down with coronavirus.
He is speaking via a video link. After seven hearings that explored what Donald Trump did, this one is expected to focus on what he didn’t do during those 187 indelible minutes on 6 January 2021. Updated at 20.
26 EDT 35m ago 20. 04 January 6 committee begins hearing exploring what Trump was doing as Capitol was attacked The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has convened its latest hearing, which is expected to look into what Trump was doing during the insurrection. You can follow it on the live feed embedded above.
38m ago 20. 01 January 6 committee plans September hearings As expected, tonight will not be the last hearing of the January 6 committee. NBC News reports the House panel will hold three more session in September.
NEW: More J6 hearings to come in SEPTEMBER The January 6th Committee will hold more hearings – plural – in September, three sources familiar tell NBC News, with Vice Chair Liz Cheney expected to announce it tonight. W/ @alivitali — Haley Talbot (@haleytalbotnbc) July 21, 2022 40m ago 19. 58 The New York Times has more details about the missing Secret Service text messages from around the time of the January 6 insurrection.
Of the 24 agents and officials that the January 6 committee requested text messages from between 7 December, 2020 and 8 January, 2021, the Secret Service was only able to retrieve an exchange between the Capitol police chief and the head of the Secret Service’s Uniformed Division, according to the Times . Texts from the agency’s director James M. Murray and Robert Engel, Trump’s main bodyguard, were not retrieved.
Tony Ornato , whom Trump elevated from the position of security chief to his deputy chief of staff, was not among the agents for whom text messages had been lost. Last month, Ornato was reported to be one of two Secret Service officials who were willing to contradict under oath testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson that Trump lunged for the wheel of his vehicle and physically attacked the chief of his security detail after his speech near the White House on January 6. CNN reports the issue of Hutchinson’s testimony will addressed in the hearing beginning in a few minutes.
Adam Kinzinger told me today that Cassidy Hutchison will be corroborated today by the evidence they plan to present. “There will be no question over her veracity,” he said. — Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 21, 2022 Secret Service agent reportedly willing to testify Trump did not lunge at him Read more 1h ago 19.
31 Watchdog launches criminal investigation into missing Secret Service texts around January 6 riot – reports Joanna Walters The inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the Secret Service, has embarked on a criminal investigation into the matter of agents’ text messages relating to January 6, 2021, having been erased, according to several media reports . The watchdog also has told the Secret Service to pause its own internal investigation into the matter, during what the DHS now refers to as a separate and “ongoing criminal investigation”, according to a CNN report . CNN further reported on a letter from DHS deputy inspector general Gladys Ayala to Secret Service director James Murray sent yesterday, quoting it as saying: .
css-knbk2a{height:1em;width:1. 5em;margin-right:3px;vertical-align:baseline;fill:#C70000;} This is to notify you that the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General has an ongoing investigation into the facts and circumstances surrounding the collection and preservation of evidence by the United States Secret Service as it relates to the events of January 6, 2021. ” And the Washington Post reported that Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi has confirmed the letter and has informed the House January 6 panel.
. css-knbk2a{height:1em;width:1. 5em;margin-right:3px;vertical-align:baseline;fill:#C70000;} “We have informed the January 6th Select Committee of the Inspector General’s request and will conduct a thorough legal review to ensure we are fully cooperative with all oversight efforts and that they do not conflict with each other,” Guglielmi said in a statement, the Post reported .
The developments mark the latest escalation of the scandal after the watchdog notified Congress the DHS had sought the texts only to be told they no longer existed . The circumstances surrounding the erasure of the Secret Service texts have become central for the January 6 committee as it investigates how agents planned to move Donald Trump and Mike Pence as the violence unfolded. 2h ago 18.
32 In Georgia, a special grand jury investigation is proceeding into Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state – a subject that the January 6 committee has also looked into . The Associated Press reports today that several Georgia Republican lawmakers who signed a fake document claiming that Trump, rather than Joe Biden, won the state have lost their bid to quash subpoenas compelling their appearance before the special panel. The body based in Fulton county, home to Atlanta, will issue a report that the local prosecutor could then use to seek indictments based on its information.
Today’s rulings indicates the special grand jury will continue to remain one potential avenue for allies of the former president, or perhaps Trump himself, to face criminal charges over his meddling in the 2020 election. Among the other former Trump officials subpoenaed by the jurors: Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani ordered to go before grand jury in Trump election meddling case Read more 2h ago 18.
14 Hugo Lowell The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell has a preview of what to expect from today’s hearing of the January 6 committee: The January 6 House select committee is expected to make the case at its hearing on Thursday that Donald Trump potentially violated the law when he refused entreaties to take action to stop the 2021 attack on the US Capitol by a mass of his supporters, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The panel will demonstrate that the former Republican president was “derelict in his duty” to protect the US Congress and might have also broken the federal law that prohibits obstructing an official proceeding before Congress, which had gathered to certify Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. Trump could have called on national guard troops to restore order when he saw on TV the melee unfolding at the Capitol, the panel is expected to argue, or he could have called off the rioters via a live broadcast from the White House press briefing room, but he did not.
Or he could have sent a tweet trying to stop the violence far earlier than he actually did, during the 187-minute duration of the Capitol attack. January 6 panel to show Trump violated law by refusing to stop Capitol attack Read more 3h ago 17. 58 The January 6 committee’s hearing this evening is likely to bring more headline-generating revelations about what Trump was doing as a mob of his supporters perpetrated one of the worst attacks on the US government in history.
And while it may be the “season finale” for the hearings, which are being orchestrated by a team that includes an ABC news executive , chances are it won’t be the last. The committee’s investigation is continuing, including into text messages from the Secret Service that were deleted following the attack , and it wouldn’t be a surprise if the lawmakers announce more sessions in the future. But is their evidence changing Americans’ views of Trump? A Reuters/Ipsos poll released just this afternoon indicates it might be.
Forty percent of Republicans say Trump was at least partly to blame for the attack, an increase of about seven percentage points from before the hearings. The proportion of Republicans who think Trump shouldn’t stand for office again also increased, to 32 percent from 26 percent in early June. 3h ago 17.
43 In final scheduled hearing, January 6 committee to press case Trump broke the law Good afternoon, US politics blog readers. In a few hours, the January 6 committee will hold its final scheduled hearing, in which House lawmakers will make the case that former president Donald Trump may have violated the law by not stopping the assault on the Capitol . As if that wasn’t a packed news agenda by itself, president Joe Biden announced earlier today he had tested positive for Covid-19 – joining his vice president Kamala Harris , much of Congress’s Democratic leadership and yes, Trump, in contracting the virus.
Here’s what else has happened today: The House of Representatives passed a bill to guarantee access to contraception after supreme court justice Clarence Thomas mulled revisiting a decades-old ruling concerning the right. All Democrats voted for it, along with eight Republicans . Much of America is facing extreme heat .
Some Democrats have called on Biden to declare a climate emergency, but he has yet to do so. Biden’s Covid-19 diagnosis has delayed the announcement of a plan to fight crime . Democratic senators have introduced a bill to legalize cannabis nationwide.
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