• Biden issues preemptive pardons on his way out as Trump says he'll pardon Jan. 6 rioters

    Biden issues preemptive pardons on his way out as Trump says he'll pardon Jan. 6 rioters

    Jan 20, 2025 11:45 PM EST

    ... Biden, in one of his final acts as president, issued preemptive pardons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired General Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated Jan. 6. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Mary McCord. ... Geoff Bennett: Donald Trump, now the first convicted felon sworn in as commander ...

  • WATCH: White House holds news briefing amid reports of Biden considering preemptive pardons

    WATCH: White House holds news briefing amid reports of Biden considering preemptive pardons

    Dec 06, 2024 04:59 PM EST

    ... 2020 presidential election and for accusations he hoarded classified documents at his home. Liz Cheney, a conservative Republican, was the vice chairwoman of the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection and campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris. Fauci, an infectious disease expert, was instrumental in the government ...

  • Trump picks Peter Navarro, who was imprisoned for defying Jan. 6 subpoena, as White House adviser

    Trump picks Peter Navarro, who was imprisoned for defying Jan. 6 subpoena, as White House adviser

    Dec 04, 2024 05:19 PM EST

    ... negotiator on the Abraham Accords team, as special presidential envoy for hostage affairs. Navarro was held in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated Jan. 6. Sentenced to four months in prison, he described his conviction as the “partisan weaponization of the judicial system.”

  • WATCH: Democrats share their top election issues

    WATCH: Democrats share their top election issues

    Aug 23, 2024 04:45 AM EST

    ... Rep. Jamie Raskin’s past roles as the lead manager in former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial and a member of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol influence what he sees as his top issues in the 2024 election. WATCH ...

  • WATCH: Sen. JD Vance’s full speech at 2024 Republican National Convention

    WATCH: Sen. JD Vance’s full speech at 2024 Republican National Convention

    Jul 18, 2024 03:51 AM EST

    ... and a standing ovation hours after he was released from a Miami prison where he served four months for defying a subpoena from the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of the former president's supporter. “If they can come ...

  • Who will be the next speaker of the House? Here are a few possibilities

    Who will be the next speaker of the House? Here are a few possibilities

    Oct 06, 2023 12:43 PM EST

    ... the Capitol riot, strategizing about how Congress could help Trump overturn his loss to Biden. Jordan also refused to comply with subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack as lawmakers tried to gather more information about his role. Jordan once coached wrestling at Ohio State, and former ...

  • What you need to know about Jeffrey Clark’s 2020 election charges

    What you need to know about Jeffrey Clark’s 2020 election charges

    Sep 08, 2023 08:51 PM EST

    ... few Department of Justice lawyers who joined the efforts to overturn the election, according to witness testimony at hearings by the U.S. House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. But Rosen and Donoghue, Clark’s superiors, told Clark that he shouldn’t be communicating with anyone at the ...

  • What you need to know about Sidney Powell’s 2020 election charges

    What you need to know about Sidney Powell’s 2020 election charges

    Aug 25, 2023 12:32 PM EST

    ... County polling locations in December 2020 and January 2021. Willis also said Powell lied in a May 2022 deposition before the U.S. House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, saying that she “didn’t have any role in really setting up” the efforts to access the voting data ...

  • Trump and 18 allies indicted in Georgia 2020 election case

    Trump and 18 allies indicted in Georgia 2020 election case

    Aug 15, 2023 02:59 AM EST

    ... Dominion Voting Systems, a producer of tabulation machines that has long been the focus of conspiracy theories. According to evidence made public by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot, Trump allies targeted Coffee County in search of evidence to back their theories of widespread voter fraud, allegedly copying ...

  • The federal civil rights law behind the Trump Jan. 6 indictment, explained

    The federal civil rights law behind the Trump Jan. 6 indictment, explained

    Aug 04, 2023 10:56 PM EST

    ... the Senate, to accepting those fake electors, or tossing the election back to the states and then eventually in ginning up the violence itself on Jan. 6,” Jurecic said. What’s new in the indictment? The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack held a series of public hearings ...