House Panel Lays Out Its Case In First Jan. 6 Insurrection Hearing
An injured officer who slipped in blood and spoke of “carnage.” Video of a huge, violent mob pushing through the U.S. Capitol. Former President Donald Trump’s allies and family members acknowledging his lies.
House investigators began to lay out a devastating case Thursday in the first of a series of June hearings examining the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol. The made-for-TV hearings showed violent video of the siege and clips of testimony examining the weeks beforehand in which Trump pushed falsehoods about widespread fraud in the election he lost. While the basics of the attack on the Capitol are well known, it's through this in-depth retelling that members of the House committee investigating the attack hope to gain support from the Department of Justice, and the public, to prevent this from happening ever again. Today on AirTalk, we recap the Jan. 6 committee hearing with Claremont McKenna College politics professor Jack Pitney and Marianna Sotomayor, congressional reporter for the Washington Post.
With files from the Associated Press
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