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 28 Who is Cassidy Hutchinson and why is she important to the Jan. 6 hearings? By Erica R. Hendry, Yasmeen Alamiri In testimony June 28, Hutchinson offered new details about what former President Donald Trump and Meadows knew in the days before the attack and how they responded while it was underway. Continue reading
Jun 28 Jan. 6 hearing to feature former Meadows aide as key witness from Trump White House By Mary Clare Jalonick, Farnoush Amiri, Michael Balsamo, Associated Press The House panel investigating the Capitol insurrection will hear testimony Tuesday from Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide in Donald Trump's White House. Continue reading
Jun 27 Lawyer who advised Trump on the 2020 election results says federal agents seized phone By Eric Tucker, Associated Press A lawyer who aided former President Donald Trump's efforts to undo the 2020 election results says in a federal court filing that federal agents have seized his cell phone. Continue reading
Jun 27 WATCH: Jan. 6 Committee hearings – Day 6 By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press Witness Cassidy Hutchinson, a lesser-known White House aide, rebuffed Trump's team warnings against testifying and provided first-hand knowledge of what she saw and heard in the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection. Continue reading
Jun 27 How the Jan. 6 committee is taking a new approach By David Bauder, Associated Press Many observers expected the Jan. 6 committee hearings would be nothing more than reruns, but they've proven much more. Continue reading
Jun 26 Trump’s enduring impact seen in Supreme Court rulings on abortion, gun restrictions By Jill Colvin, Associated Press The abortion decision marked the apex in a week that reinforced the former president’s ongoing impact in Washington more than a year and a half after he exited the White House. Continue reading
Jun 23 WATCH: Trump pressured Justice Department to seize states’ voting machines, former DOJ officials say By Kenichi Serino Jeffrey Rosen, former acting attorney general, testified on June 23 as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack presented its findings to the public. Continue reading
Jun 23 Federal agents search former Trump-era DOJ official Jeffrey Clark’s home By Michael Balsamo, Eric Tucker, Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press Federal agents have searched the Virginia home of a Trump-era Justice Department official who championed efforts by President Donald Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Continue reading
Jun 23 WATCH: Former top DOJ official Richard Donoghue speaks on Jeffrey Clark’s push for false election fraud claims By Associated Press Testimony centered on a tense showdown on Jan. 3, 2021 in which Trump contemplated replacing the acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, with a lower-level official, Jeffrey Clark, who wanted to champion Trump's bogus election fraud claims. Continue reading