• GOP censures Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for participation in Jan. 6 investigation

    GOP censures Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for participation in Jan. 6 investigation

    Feb 04, 2022 07:50 PM EDT

    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republican Party officials on Friday voted to punish GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for their work on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection and advanced a rule change that would prohibit candidates from participating in debates organized by the Commission on Presidential ...

  • News Wrap: Jan. 6 panel seeks voluntary testimony from Ivanka Trump

    News Wrap: Jan. 6 panel seeks voluntary testimony from Ivanka Trump

    Jan 20, 2022 11:55 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Thursday, the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot asked to interview Ivanka Trump. New unemployment claims jumped up by 55,000 last week, to 286,000 — the most since October. Police in Britain arrested two people in connection with the Texas synagogue standoff Saturday ...

  • Founder of Oath Keepers, 10 other members charged with seditious conspiracy in Capitol insurrection

    Founder of Oath Keepers, 10 other members charged with seditious conspiracy in Capitol insurrection

    Jan 13, 2022 07:04 PM EDT

    ... of helping put into motion the violence. Jonathan Moseley, an attorney who said he represented Rhodes, said Rhodes was supposed to testify before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection in a deposition but it got called off. “He has been subject to a lot of suspicion to why ...

  • ‘Slow-motion insurrection’: Democracy experts alarmed over GOP takeover of election machinery

    ‘Slow-motion insurrection’: Democracy experts alarmed over GOP takeover of election machinery

    Dec 29, 2021 09:40 PM EDT

    ... alarms are struggling to be heard by their own party. GOP Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming or Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, members of a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, are often dismissed as party apostates. Others have cast the election denialism as little more than a distraction. But ...

  • What the Jan. 6 panel hopes to learn from Meadows, and how executive privilege affects it

    What the Jan. 6 panel hopes to learn from Meadows, and how executive privilege affects it

    Dec 14, 2021 11:45 PM EDT

    The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday took up a contempt of Congress charge against former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. This comes after Meadows defied a subpoena from the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Lisa Desjardins begins this report, and Judy ...

  • WATCH: White House press secretary Jen Psaki holds news briefing

    WATCH: White House press secretary Jen Psaki holds news briefing

    Dec 14, 2021 05:58 PM EDT

    ... Donald Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows as the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection was underway. The texts were released this week by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and read aloud at a committee hearing by Rep. Liz Cheney. Psaki called the texts "disappointing" but "not surprising ...

  • Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Jan. 6 investigation, abortion

    Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Jan. 6 investigation, abortion

    Dec 13, 2021 11:20 PM EDT

    ... the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Judy Woodruff to discuss the latest political news, including the latest subpoenas and revelations from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, and recent judicial action on reproductive rights. ... Judy Woodruff: The committee in the House of Representatives investigating January 6 ...

  • Jan.6 insurrection panel subpoenas 6 people who helped plan Trump rallies

    Jan.6 insurrection panel subpoenas 6 people who helped plan Trump rallies

    Dec 11, 2021 01:06 AM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is subpoenaing six people who the panel says were involved in the organization and planning of rallies that aimed to overturn Donald Trump's defeat in the 2020 presidential election. The committee chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said ...

  • Jan. 6 panel to pursue contempt charges against Meadows

    Jan. 6 panel to pursue contempt charges against Meadows

    Dec 08, 2021 05:19 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has “no choice” but to move forward with contempt charges against former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows now that he is no longer complying with a subpoena, the panel's chairman said Wednesday. In a letter ...

  • Meadows won't cooperate with Jan. 6 panel after breakdown in negotiations, attorney says

    Meadows won't cooperate with Jan. 6 panel after breakdown in negotiations, attorney says

    Dec 07, 2021 04:14 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — In an abrupt reversal, an attorney for former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said his client will not cooperate with a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, citing a breakdown in negotiations with the panel. Attorney George Terwilliger said in a letter Tuesday that ...