Rep. Raskin on what the Jan. 6 committee accomplished in the first public hearing
For more takeaways from Thursday night’s hearing, we turn to a member of the Jan. 6 select committee, who also served as the lead impeachment manager in President Trump’s second impeachment trial. Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin joins Judy Woodruff to…
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Brooks and Capehart on the Jan. 6 hearing and the push for gun safety legislation
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including how the country is reckoning with the fallout from Jan. 6 after the House select committee held…
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Rep. Banks on Republican opposition to the Jan. 6 committee’s findings
Opposition to the select committee is nearly unanimous from House Republicans, who’ve attacked the work as illegitimate and politically motivated. Indiana Rep. Jim Banks was House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s pick to serve as ranking member on the committee, but…
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WATCH LIVE: Jan. 6 Committee hearings – Day 2
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WATCH: Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards gives opening statement in Jan. 6 committee hearing
Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards said in her opening statement June 9 before the House Jan. 6 committee that on the day of the attack and in the days that followed, she was called a number of names, including “Nancy…
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WATCH: Rep. Liz Cheney says Trump ignored pleas to stop Jan. 6 violence | Jan. 6 hearings
Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming said in her opening remarks of the first Jan. 6 committee hearing June 9 that former President Donald Trump’s intention as the violence unfolded “was to remain president of the United States, despite the…
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WATCH: Barr, Ivanka Trump tell Jan. 6 committee there’s no evidence of 2020 voter fraud
The first public hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack included video of testimony from former Attorney General Bill Barr and a former Trump campaign lawyer, both of whom detailed conversations with former President Donald Trump in…
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WATCH: Jan. 6 Committee Chair Thompson calls Capitol attack ‘culmination of an attempted coup’
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., called former President Donald Trump the “center of [the] conspiracy” that the 2020 election was not valid, saying the violence on Jan. 6 was “the culmination of an attempted coup” as he opened a series of…
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