• WATCH: Jan. 6 committee Chairman Bennie Thompson introduces former White House aide as key witness

    WATCH: Jan. 6 committee Chairman Bennie Thompson introduces former White House aide as key witness

    Jun 28, 2022 05:55 PM EDT

    Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide in Donald Trump’s White House, is making a surprise appearance Tuesday before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection — an effort by the panel to provide new details about Trump's inner circle as he fought to overturn his election defeat. Watch Thompson ...

  • News Wrap: Jan. 6 committee to hold surprise hearing with new evidence

    News Wrap: Jan. 6 committee to hold surprise hearing with new evidence

    Jun 27, 2022 10:45 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Monday, the Jan. 6 committee is calling a surprise hearing featuring newly collected evidence, the Supreme Court sided with a high school football coach in Washington state who lead prayers on the field, an Amtrak train with more than 200 passengers and crew hit a truck and derailed in Missouri killing...

  • WATCH: Jan. 6 Committee hearings - Day 6

    WATCH: Jan. 6 Committee hearings - Day 6

    Jun 27, 2022 06:17 PM EDT

    https://youtu.be/aqFE9YtsWFg The Jan. 6 committee was not expected to meet again until July, but called Tuesday's surprise hearing to receive Hutchinson's testimony. Chairman Bennie Thompson and vice-chair Liz Cheney both said it was not easy for the former staffer to come forward, noting that ...

  • How the Jan. 6 committee is taking a new approach

    How the Jan. 6 committee is taking a new approach

    Jun 27, 2022 05:28 PM EDT

    ... make Donald Trump look awful." Trump seems to have sensed it. He criticized McCarthy, who pulled all of his Republican appointees off the Jan. 6 committee after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two of them. At the very least, having Trump allies on the panel would have hurt the committee ...

  • What we learned on Day 5 of Jan. 6 committee hearings

    What we learned on Day 5 of Jan. 6 committee hearings

    Jun 23, 2022 10:50 PM EDT

    ... I think, Judy, when we were talking about it as a team, from what they're looking at, is that President Trump, according to this committee, repeatedly tried different ways to try and overturn the election. Here is what we heard from the committee. One of those, of course, was ...

  • WATCH: Jan. 6 Committee hearings - Day 5

    WATCH: Jan. 6 Committee hearings - Day 5

    Jun 22, 2022 11:39 PM EDT

    ... up its investigation.Among those being investigated are Republican officials in key states, including those working on the fake electors in the run-up to Jan. 6, when Congress would be tallying the election results. The chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, David Shafer, received a subpoena, and the Nevada ...

  • Jan. 6 committee has new Trump documentary footage filmed before and after insurrection

    Jan. 6 committee has new Trump documentary footage filmed before and after insurrection

    Jun 22, 2022 04:03 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — New footage of former President Donald Trump and his inner circle taken both before and after Jan. 6, 2021, is now in the possession of the House committee investigating the deadly attack on the Capitol. WATCH: What we learned on Day 4 of Jan. 6 committee hearings The ...

  • What we learned on Day 4 of Jan. 6 committee hearings

    What we learned on Day 4 of Jan. 6 committee hearings

    Jun 21, 2022 10:55 PM EDT

    ... Now, that phone call, a lot of election law experts think, is enough to bring criminal charges against the president and his allies. Now, the committee today brought up the illegality of what we witnessed on January 6 and the lead-up to it, and they kept saying over and ...

  • WATCH: Jan. 6 committee says Trump broke the 'sacred and centuries-old covenant' in his attempts to overturn the 2020 election

    WATCH: Jan. 6 committee says Trump broke the 'sacred and centuries-old covenant' in his attempts to overturn the 2020 election

    Jun 21, 2022 10:44 PM EDT

    Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. gave a closing statement on June 21 during a public hearing before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. He said the election officials and workers who gave testimony on Tuesday’s hearing “represent the backbone of our democracy.” Watch the moment in the ...

  • WATCH: Jan. 6 committee explores the Trump campaign ‘plot’ to seat fake electors

    WATCH: Jan. 6 committee explores the Trump campaign ‘plot’ to seat fake electors

    Jun 21, 2022 08:13 PM EDT

    ... chambers.” The committee also shared examples of fake elector certificates in comparison to real ones. The hearing was the fourth of several planned by the Jan. 6 committee to present its findings to the public. It focused on Trump’s efforts to pressure state legislators and local election officials to ...