WATCH: Rep. Zoe Lofgren offers opening statement for Day 2 | Jan. 6 hearings
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., made an opening statement on June 13 as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack presented its findings to the public. Lofgren said that Monday’s hearing would present evidence that both former President Donald Trump…
Read More »
WATCH: Rep. Bennie Thompson offers opening statement for Day 2 | Jan. 6 hearings
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. Thompson said that former president Donald Trump refused to accept “the will of the…
Read More »
WATCH: Rep. Liz Cheney offers opening statement for Day 2 | Jan. 6 hearings
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., made an opening statement on June 13 as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack presented its findings to the public. She said this hearing would focus on “the initial part” of what the committee…
Read More »
How race played a role in the Capitol insurrection
The Jan. 6 committee will hold its next public hearing on Monday morning. And while the panel’s focus is on former President Trump and his closest allies, future witnesses are expected to draw a link between the Trump White House…
Read More »
What we learned from the first public hearing on the Jan. 6 investigation
The Jan. 6 congressional committee is set to lay out its evidence in detail starting Monday after a dramatic opening night. In primetime Thursday, the panel accused then-President Trump of an attempted coup. In turn, the former president went online…
Read More »
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…
Read More »
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…
Read More »
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…
Read More »