‘The lie hasn’t gone away’: Jan 6 committee chairman says Trump threat to elections is ongoing
The January 6 committee has announced a surprise extra hearing that will contain new evidence of Donald Trump’s “dereliction of duty,” California representative Adam Schiff said on Sunday.
“The final hearing will cover what the president was doing and more importantly, what he was not doing as we were being attacked,” Mr Schiff told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday.
The latest round of the highly watched inquiry will take place at 1pm ET on Tuesday, 28 June.
Previously, the special congressional committee had no more planned hearings until lawmakers returned from their 4 July recess.
The final hearing will bring to a close a month that featured five other days packed with shocking testimony before the committee.
Previous hearings in June revealed Donald Trump’s unprecedented pressure campaign on the Department of Justice to tamper with the election process, and strong evidence from the president’s own inner circle that Mr Trump was clearly warned his election conspiracies were “bulls*t“ but he went on claiming them anyway.
Meanwhile, outside of Congress, one of the company’s behind Donald Trump’s social media app Truth Social is under investigation, and infamous “coup memo” author John Eastman says he was searched by federal agents.
Former Meadows aide to testify in surprise hearing
Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’s onetime top aid Cassidy Hutchinson is set to testify before the House committee investigating the 6 January attacks on the Capitol.
Ms Hutchinson has already provided information to the committee, sitting with its investigators over the course of three separate interviews, The Hill reported.
She would be the first White House employee to testify publicly before the committee.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar28 June 2022 05:42
Ilhan Omar calls for investigation into justice Clarence Thomas’s role
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar called for a full impeachment investigation into justice Clarence Thomas’s role in the 6 January coup, in a reference to his wife Ginni’s alleged involvement in efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election.
“Congress also has the authority to impeach Members of the Supreme Court and has done so before,” she tweeted.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar28 June 2022 05:22
The January 6 hearings have an unexpected upside—for Ron DeSantis
Ron Desantis sees the January 6 hearings as a possible way for former President Donald Trump to be indicted, according to a report.
“That’s what Ron thinks this is all about,” the consultant, said to be familiar with the governor’s thinking, told the outlet.
Catch up with Gustaf Kilander’s full report.
Josh Marcus28 June 2022 04:56
Senate sergeant-at-arms in charge of security during 6 Jan riot dies
Michael Stenger, who served as the Sergeant at Arms for the US senate during the 6 January riot at the Capitol last year, has died.
His death comes amid the House of Representatives’s attempt to investigate the riot at the US Capitol last year wherein supporters of former president Donald Trump raided the complex in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Stenger assumed the role in 2018 after he served as chief of staff to his predecessor Frank Larkin, Roll Call reported at the time. He previously served in the United States Marine Corps and for 35 years in the US Secret Service.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar28 June 2022 04:22
The documentary that changed the January 6 hearings
Last week, the select committee received hours of video from Mr Holder after he was issued a subpoena calling for “raw footage” taken by him and his colleagues on the day of the Capitol attack. The subpoena also requested footage of interviews with Mr Trump, Mr Pence, Donald Trump Jr, Eric Trump, Ivanka Trump, or Jared Kushner and “any footage pertaining to…