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…
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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…
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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…
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PBS NewsHour full episode, June 10, 2022
Friday on the NewsHour, inflation rises faster than expected, pinching pocketbooks and spooking the markets. Then, the House committee investigating the Capitol insurrection formally accuses former President Trump of attempting a coup as witnesses testify to the violence of that…
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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…
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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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