Jun 28 WATCH: Jan. 6 committee Chairman Bennie Thompson introduces former White House aide as key witness By Associated Press Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee's chairman, said the panel called the hearing in light of “specific detailed information about what the former president and his aides were doing and saying in those critical hours.”… Continue reading
Jun 22 Capitol riot hearings to stretch into July, chairman says By Farnoush Amiri, Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press Chairman Bennie Thompson tells reporters the committee is receiving "a lot of information," including new documentary film footage of Donald Trump's final months in office. Continue reading
Jun 21 WATCH: Jan. 6 committee panel focuses on Trump’s pressure on elected officials By Farnoush Amiri, Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press The House Jan. 6 committee has opened, hearing from state and local officials who fended off Donald Trump's pressure to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Continue reading
Jun 16 WATCH: Jan. 6 Chairman Thompson says there’s no idea more ‘un-American’ than rejecting an election By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press The Jan. 6 committee is plunging into Donald Trump's last-ditch effort to salvage the 2020 election by pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to reject the electoral count. Continue reading
Jun 16 Rep. Bennie Thompson says Jan. 6 committee wants to hear from Ginni Thomas By Mary Clare Jalonick, Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press A conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, "Ginni" Thomas communicated with people in President Donald Trump's orbit ahead of the attack and also on the day of the insurrection. Continue reading
Jun 13 WATCH: Trump ‘betrayed trust’ of American people, Jan. 6 chair Thompson says By News Desk Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., made his opening statement on June 13 as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack presented its findings to the public. Continue reading
Jun 09 WATCH: Jan. 6 violence was ‘no accident,’ but part of ‘Trump’s last stand,’ Rep. Thompson says By Associated Press Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said “the world is watching” the U.S. response to the panel's yearlong investigation into the Capitol riot and the defeated president's extraordinary effort to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden's election victory. Continue reading
Jun 09 WATCH: Capitol riot was ‘culmination of an attempted coup,’ Jan. 6 Committee chair Thompson says By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press The chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol said it put America's "constitutional democracy at risk."… Continue reading
Jan 06 Watch 6:54 Thompson on what the Jan. 6 panel has learned in the year since the Capitol attack While the disturbing scenes of the Jan. 6 insurrection were captured by witnesses and the media, many unknowns still exist. Among them, the actions of President Donald Trump who was silent for more than three hours. The bipartisan House committee… Continue watching
Nov 09 House Jan. 6 panel subpoenas 10 more former White House aides By Mary Clare Jalonick, Eric Tucker, Jill Colvin, Associated Press The subpoenas include demands for documents and testimony from senior adviser Stephen Miller and press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. Continue reading