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The panel is also expected to focus on what Trump was doing, and not doing, as the violence on Capitol Hill was unfolding - linking the former President’s inaction to his role at the center of a broader conspiracy. Trump and his allies mounted a pressure campaign against Pence as it sought to convince him to help overturn the election outcome and then-aides to the former vice president have detailed concerns they had about his safety leading up to, and on, January 6.
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Testimony provided by individuals close to former Vice President Mike Pence is also expected to be featured, in some way, during the series of hearings.
Rosen and Donoghue have previously spoken with the committee behind closed doors about Trump’s pressure campaign against top Justice Department officials to investigate baseless claims of election fraud. CNN has previously reported that former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and his then-deputy, Richard Donoghue, have been invited by the committee to testify during one of its public hearings. “We expect that they’re going to recount their experiences, particularly what they saw and heard from the rioters who tried to occupy the Capitol, of the rioters who tried to stop the transfer of power,” committee aides told reporters.įuture hearings are expected to build on what happens Thursday night. The two witnesses who will testify on Thursday will play a key role in that opening statement. Aides said that the opening hearing would serve to lay out a summary of the committee’s findings, which all points back to Trump himself. Thursday’s hearing is the first in a series planned this month to illustrate what the panel’s months-long investigation into January 6 has uncovered.
Trump’s pressure campaign and inaction on January 6 Trump and his Republican allies in Congress are preparing their own counter-programming to attack the committee’s work as a political attack on Trump. While the hearings won’t be the committee’s final word - a report is planned for later in the year - it’s the panel’s highest-profile opportunity to convince the public whose views have hardened about why it should care about what happened on January 6. Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson and Vice Chair Liz Cheney will make opening statements and they will be the ones to question the witnesses Thursday, aides said. The committee will seek to use that evidence to draw a direct line between Trump and the groups who perpetrated the violence on January 6. That video will be supplemented by live witness testimony from two witnesses who had an up-close view of the rioters: US Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, who was among the first injured by rioters on January 6, and documentarian Nick Quested, who had unique access to members of militia groups who took part in the attack. The committee said the “vast majority” of the video that it plans to show has not been seen publicly before. “We’ll bring the American people back to the reality of that violence and remind them of just how horrific it was,” one aide said. Thursday, the committee plans to show previously unseen video of testimony collected during closed depositions that includes interviews with Trump White House aides, campaign officials and members of Trumps’ family.Ĭommittee aides said they also plan to show video to remind the public what happened on January 6 when the Capitol was overrun by a violent mob. New video and attempt to draw a direct line between Trump and violence Aides outlined the first public hearing, which will take place in prime time, as the committee’s opening salvo - previewing what’s to come in the month’s worth of planned hearings.
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