• WATCH: Congress certifies Trump reelection with electoral vote count

    WATCH: Congress certifies Trump reelection with electoral vote count

    Jan 06, 2025 03:33 PM EST

    ... Medal to Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who had been the chair and vice chair of the congressional committee that conducted an investigation into Jan. 6, 2021. Trump has said those who worked on the Jan. 6 committee should be locked up. Associated ...

  • Trump’s path to victory looks a lot like Andrew Jackson’s in 1828. A politics scholar explains why

    Trump’s path to victory looks a lot like Andrew Jackson’s in 1828. A politics scholar explains why

    Nov 09, 2024 10:39 PM EST

    Trump, however, has already weathered numerous legal battles, investigations and controversies. From the Jan. 6 committee to special prosecutor Jack Smith’s probes and the Mar-a-Lago documents case, Trump’s political career has been marked by repeated confrontations with legal and political institutions – including two impeachments by the ...

  • October 3, 2024 - PBS News Hour full episode

    October 3, 2024 - PBS News Hour full episode

    Oct 04, 2024 12:52 AM EST

    Thursday on the News Hour, Kamala Harris campaigns with Liz Cheney at the birthplace of the Republican Party while Donald Trump rallies voters in Michigan. A lawmaker from the House Jan. 6 committee weighs in on newly unsealed evidence in Trump's 2020 election interference case. Plus, fighting between Israel ...

  • For Fox News and its Republican audience, how do they cover the Democratic convention?

    For Fox News and its Republican audience, how do they cover the Democratic convention?

    Aug 21, 2024 11:36 PM EST

    ... called themselves Republican. Fox's audience has shown a marked tendency to tune away from news that doesn't reflect its beliefs, such as the Jan. 6 committee hearings. Fox had 2.5 million viewers for Monday's DNC coverage, 1.7 million on Tuesday — the latter sixth among networks ...

  • Live updates: Tim Walz to accept VP nomination on Day 3 of the DNC

    Live updates: Tim Walz to accept VP nomination on Day 3 of the DNC

    Aug 21, 2024 03:45 PM EST

    ... would rather subvert democracy than submit to it’ Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., spoke Wednesday night about the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The former chairman of the Jan. 6 committee warned at the convention “about going back to the dark history,” of political violence ...

  • Trump's convention downplays Jan. 6 and election fraud lies in departure from campaign rhetoric

    Trump's convention downplays Jan. 6 and election fraud lies in departure from campaign rhetoric

    Jul 18, 2024 07:45 PM EST

    ... a claim that was rejected by the courts. In doing so, he became the first Trump official convicted of a crime in connection to the Jan. 6 attack. "The Jan. 6 committee demanded that I betray Donald Trump to save my own skin," Navarro said. "I refused." He named the ...

  • Live updates: RNC's Night 3 highlights national security and JD Vance as Biden tests positive for COVID

    Live updates: RNC's Night 3 highlights national security and JD Vance as Biden tests positive for COVID

    Jul 17, 2024 03:51 PM EST

    ... striking reception for one of Trump’s longest-standing advisors, though one who had not had a particularly high profile before his defiance of the Jan. 6 committee. The scene was the sort of spectacle common at Trump rallies, where the presidential nominee routinely plays a recording made by those ...

  • Steve Bannon scheduled to report to federal prison for defying congressional subpoena

    Steve Bannon scheduled to report to federal prison for defying congressional subpoena

    Jul 01, 2024 01:32 PM EST

    ... of the committee. Bannon's appeal will continue to play out, and Republican House leaders have put their support behind stepping in to assert the Jan. 6 committee was improperly created, effectively trying to deem the subpoena Bannon received as illegitimate. Another Trump aide, trade adviser Peter Navarro, has also ...

  • Lack of Jan. 6 accountability on the debate stage alarms democracy advocates

    Lack of Jan. 6 accountability on the debate stage alarms democracy advocates

    Jun 29, 2024 10:56 PM EST

    ... Trump presidency fading from view during the opening debate of the general election campaign. Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Democrat who chaired the House’s Jan. 6 committee investigation in the last Congress, said it is a deeply unfortunate situation. “We could have a Jan. 6, 2.0,” Thompson said ...

  • Steve Bannon’s bid to delay his prison sentence turned down by Supreme Court

    Steve Bannon’s bid to delay his prison sentence turned down by Supreme Court

    Jun 28, 2024 06:53 PM EST

    ... emergency appeal after a judge ordered him to report to prison July 1 for a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. The court previously denied a similar request from another Trump aide. The court rejected it without explanation, as ...