• June 16, 2022 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    June 16, 2022 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    Jun 17, 2022 01:02 AM EST

    Thursday on the NewsHour, the Jan. 6 the committee zeroes in on how former President Trump pushed Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election. Then, a Brazilian fisherman confesses to the murder of a journalist and an Indigenous rights activist. Also, how decades of work by anti-abortion activists laid ...

  • What we learned from the first public hearing on the Jan. 6 investigation

    What we learned from the first public hearing on the Jan. 6 investigation

    Jun 10, 2022 10:45 PM EST

    The Jan. 6 congressional committee is set to lay out its evidence in detail starting Monday after a dramatic opening night. In primetime Thursday, the panel accused then-President Trump of an attempted coup. In turn, the former president went online today to deny he urged supporters to storm the ...

  • Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on a potential bipartisan deal on guns, Jan. 6 panel hearings

    Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on a potential bipartisan deal on guns, Jan. 6 panel hearings

    Jun 06, 2022 10:35 PM EST

    NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including a potential bipartisan compromise on guns and the Jan. 6 select committee's first televised hearing to present its findings on the Capitol insurrection. ... Amna ...

  • Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro subpoenaed in Jan. 6 probe

    Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro subpoenaed in Jan. 6 probe

    May 31, 2022 06:01 PM EST

    ... White House as they investigate the worst attack on the Capitol in two centuries. In an 88-page draft filing, Navarro claims the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack is unlawful and therefore a subpoena it issued to him in February is unenforceable under law. The ...

  • Schumer sets infrastructure vote, pressures lawmakers

    Schumer sets infrastructure vote, pressures lawmakers

    Jul 15, 2021 09:30 PM EST

    ... the emerging plan as a wasteful liberal wish list that would fuel inflation and boost taxes. WATCH: Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on infrastructure plan, Jan. 6 select committee “Count me in for real infrastructure. Count me out for a tax and spend plan from Hell,” he said in a ...

  • The biggest takeaways from the first 8 Jan. 6 hearings

    The biggest takeaways from the first 8 Jan. 6 hearings

    Jul 29, 2022 08:26 PM EST

    ... of Justice officials threatening to resign en masse. These are all facts that came out of testimony from the first eight public hearings of the Jan. 6 House select committee this summer. Watch the PBS NewsHour’s compilation and reporting on all eight hearings in the player above. The committee ...

  • Closing arguments underway in Steve Bannon trial as jury set to deliberate

    Closing arguments underway in Steve Bannon trial as jury set to deliberate

    Jul 22, 2022 03:17 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Closing arguments were expected Friday in Steve Bannon's contempt of Congress trial, with the jury likely to get the case against the onetime Donald Trump ally. Bannon is charged with two counts of criminal contempt for refusing to appear before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 ...

  • Recording captures McCarthy saying he would urge Trump to resign

    Recording captures McCarthy saying he would urge Trump to resign

    Apr 22, 2022 01:43 PM EST

    ... House majority are unlikely to be critical of the leader ahead of November.Still, McCarthy has also been a person of interest for the House committee investigating the storming of the Capitol on Jan 6. The select committee, which Cheney vice-chairs, requested an interview with McCarthy in mid-January ...

  • House Jan. 6 panel subpoenas Alex Jones and Roger Stone

    House Jan. 6 panel subpoenas Alex Jones and Roger Stone

    Nov 22, 2021 10:54 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection issued subpoenas Monday to five more individuals, including former President Donald Trump’s ally Roger Stone and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. The subpoenas include demands for documents and testimony from Stone and Jones as well as three people ...

  • What's next after judge denied Trump request to withhold Jan 6. docs from House committee

    What's next after judge denied Trump request to withhold Jan 6. docs from House committee

    Nov 10, 2021 11:20 PM EST

    ... process happening because former President Trump has said that he is going to continue to pursue this. And Democrats, including chair of the House select committee, Bennie Thompson, has said that he believes lawmakers have the law on their side. Judy Woodruff: And speaking of Chair Thompson and that committee ...