House Jan 6 committee opens public hearing with never-before-seen video and officer testimony: "It was a war scene"

Table Of Content

• Tonight's hearing was designed for prime time — by a former TV news executive
• Republican Rep. Ralph Norman discusses negotiations to avoid a government shutdown
• Cheney's message to GOP colleagues who continue to support Trump
• GOP lawmaker defends rioters while slamming federal investigations into participants of insurrection
• Panel Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson will say 'democracy remains in danger'
• The sprawling investigation into Jan. 6

"Chairman Thompson is the chair of one of the committees of jurisdiction, Homeland Security, and this was an assault on our homeland security and he commands a great deal of respect in our caucus and I'm very proud of what he is doing," Pelosi toldNPR. Prosecutors said they're still negotiating with Congress to get copies of the committee's transcripts of witness interviews, but those may not be made public until September when the trial is under way. The conspiracy to thwart the will of the people is not over,” he will say, according to excerpts of his remarks. He’ll also meet with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, who has raised questions about the Biden’s election win as recently as Tuesday. Bolsonaro has been casting doubt on Brazil’s election system ahead of his own tough reelection campaign this fall — a system that U.S. officials have said is fair and democratic.

Tonight's hearing was designed for prime time — by a former TV news executive

"Donald Trump lost the presidential election in 2020. The American people voted him out of office," Thompson said. Committe vice chairwoman Rep. Liz Cheney said in her opening statement that more than a dozen former White House staffers will show that Trump wanted Vice President Mike Pence to be hanged. According to on-camera testimony, Trump aide Jason Miller, who was in the Oval Office at the time, said the campaign's lead data analyst told Trump he would lose. In recorded video testimony, Trump's daughter and longtime White House aide Ivanka Trump said she accepted Bill Barr's analysis that Trump allies claims of mass voter fraud were inaccurate. "If Dr. Eastman and President Trump's plan had worked, it would have permanently ended the peaceful transition of power, undermining American democracy and the Constitution," he wrote in March. "If the country does not commit to investigating and pursuing accountability for those responsible, the Court fears January 6 will repeat itself."

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Republican Rep. Ralph Norman discusses negotiations to avoid a government shutdown

“Prior to Jan. 6, were you asked or instructed by President Trump to take any action at the department to advance election fraud claims or to seek to overturn any part of the 2020 election results? DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone asked the committee to investigate the organizing of Donald Trump's "stop the steal" rally and the "violent political rhetoric" leading up to and during the event. GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger reacted to threats of potentially being punished by Republican leadership for accepting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's appointment to the committee. The committee’s next hearing is scheduled to take place on the morning of June 13. Witnesses for the second and third and fourth hearings — scheduled for next week — have not yet been announced. Cheney, for her part, is breaking with her own party in participating in the committee in the first place.

Cheney's message to GOP colleagues who continue to support Trump

Lynch pushed further in today's hearing, saying that Miller's answer in the hearing was also a reversal of his written testimony that was submitted. "Mr. Rosen, was Officer Sicknick killed by rioters with a fire extinguisher?" he asked in an apparent reference to early, incorrect reporting that Sicknick was assaulted on scene with a fire extinguisher. Miller also invoked the Kent State massacre on Wednesday as he justified why he didn’t believe the US military should have responded to the Capitol insurrection, saying he sees the nation’s armed forces “as a last resort” when responding to protests. “Watching the TV footage of those who entered the Capitol and walked through Statuary Hall showed people in an orderly fashion staying between the stanchions and ropes taking videos and pictures.

"The world is watching what we do here. America has long been expected to be a shining city on a hill. A beacon of hope and freedom." "January 6 and the lives that led to insurrection have put two-and-a-half centuries of constitutional democracy at risk. The world is watching what we do here," he said. "But for Donald Trump, that was only the beginning of what became a sprawling, multi-step conspiracy" aimed at overturning the election, Thompson said.

GOP lawmaker defends rioters while slamming federal investigations into participants of insurrection

CHP officers apprehended Raymundo Duran, 47, Monday evening on suspicion of driving under the influence and possession of a loaded firearm at a San Onofre inspection point in a silver Toyota Camry. Investigators connected Duran to the West Covina shooting after initially booking him as a suspected drunk driver, Luna said. Before the hearing, in a letter to the campus community, Shafik said she was prepared to "share what we have learned as we battle this ancient hatred at Columbia University." The December hearing with the presidents of Harvard, MIT and Penn saw high tension and headline-grabbing consequences.

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Former Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, in a conversation with a USA Today columnist published Thursday, said there were "more than a few people" in the administration having conversations about potentially invoking the 25th Amendment. Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney said the American public will hear about members of Trump's Cabinet discussing the "possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment." The 25th Amendment provides the Cabinet a path to replace the president. "Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible. There will be a day when Donald Trump is gone. But your dishonor will remain," she said.

He said both lawmakers and the representatives from Columbia had the benefit of studying that December hearing and having ample time to prepare – and it showed. The Supreme Court, meanwhile, is done with arguments for the term and now has a thick stack of appeals to decide. Beyond Trump’s weighty case, the justices have many crucial disputes to resolve by their unofficial late June deadline on abortion, guns and much more. If they wait until the end to decide Trump v. United States, that will push a pre-election trial in Washington to at least the precipice of the November election, further emphasizing that the defendant is running to stay out of prison.

He said he can see why someone would take issue with the title of "terrorist" since "it's gained a lot of notoriety in our vocabulary in the past few decades." But, he said, he came "prepared" to explain why he uses the term to describe the rioters. Fanone told committee members after reflecting on the events he believes that there were government officials who incited the violence. "We still have security measures from 20 years ago that had to go. We need to reinvent the wheel and change that, but only you guys have the power to authorize that," he told the committee. He called on the committee to uncover if "anyone in power" coordinated, tried to downplay, or tried to prevent the investigation of "this terrorist attack." Cheney also called efforts by Republican leadership to downplay Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and protesting on behalf of insurrectionists a "disgrace."

He says he'll be looking to see if administrators follow through with the things they committed to in the hearing, like holding professors accountable and educating students about antisemitism. He hopes that kind of follow through will help improve the campus climate at Columbia, and elsewhere. They frequently interrupted the Columbia representatives to ask what disciplinary actions had been taken, and whether the professors were still teaching at Columbia. In response, the college leaders vowed to hold faculty members accountable for antisemitic speech. Wednesday's hearing was reminiscent of another antisemitism hearing, held in December, when House Education Committee members grilled the presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania. The president of Columbia University, Nemat Shafik, testified before the House Education Committee alongside a Columbia University law professor and two trustees.

CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane walks us through it in the video below. He will also say the hearings aren't intended to just look backwards, adding that democracy "remains in danger." "Justice for me for Brian would be having Donald Trump in prison, but it doesn't seem like that ever happens," Garza said. "The man seems to escape justice time and time again. But maybe today would change that. That would be a wonderful thing. I don't know. We'll see." Over the next few weeks, the committee will remind Americans what happened that day, but also that democracy is still in danger, Thompson suggested.

The musical "Hamilton" gave the rancor a resonant beat and lyrics, but the nation damn near collapsed amid intrigue, recrimination and scheming over who would succeed George Washington. Greg Jacob, who served as chief counsel to Pence, and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger will also appear at subsequent hearings. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and a leading conservative jurist who advised then-Vice President Mike Pence, confirmed to CBS News that he has accepted an invitation to appear before the committee next week. "It will be an honor to testify before the January 6th committee," he told CBS News. "January 6th and the lies that led to insurrection have put two and a half centuries of constitutional democracy at risk," he'll say.