{"id":11323,"date":"2022-06-16T17:56:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T17:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/watch-rep-cheneys-full-opening-statement-for-day-3-jan-6-hearings\/"},"modified":"2022-06-16T17:56:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T17:56:51","slug":"watch-rep-cheneys-full-opening-statement-for-day-3-jan-6-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=11323","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Rep. Cheney&#8217;s full opening statement for Day 3 | Jan. 6 hearings."},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sUxelzizjzA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In her opening statement, on Day 3 of the Jan. 6 committee\u2019s series of hearings on the 2021 Capitol insurrection, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said the June 16 hearing will focus on former President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201crelentless efforts\u201d to pressure his vice president into not counting electoral votes on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the president wanted the vice president to do was not just wrong, it was illegal and unconstitutional,\u201d Cheney said, adding that Trump was told repeatedly that Pence lacked the authority to carry out such a demand.<\/p>\n<p>The committee showed a clip from Pence\u2019s speech at a Feb. 4 Federalist Society event, showing the former vice president saying, \u201cPresident Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd frankly, there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president,\u201d Pence added in those remarks.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing was the third of several planned by the Jan. 6 committee that focused on Trump\u2019s efforts to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence to reject Congress&#8217; official count of Electoral College votes on the day of the attack. In the year since its creation, the committee has conducted more than 1,000 interviews, seeking critical information and documents from people witness to, or involved in, the violence that day. The committee postponed a hearing scheduled for June 15 that was meant to focus on Trump&#8217;s efforts to replace Attorney General Bill Barr, who did not support his claims of voter fraud after the election.<\/p>\n<p>Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG<\/a>  <br \/>\nFind more from PBS NewsHour at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a>  <br \/>\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Follow us: <br \/>\nTikTok: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@pbsnews\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@pbsnews<\/a>  <br \/>\nTwitter: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour<\/a>  <br \/>\nFacebook: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe: <br \/>\nPBS NewsHour podcasts: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts<\/a><br \/>\nNewsletters: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her opening statement, on Day 3 of the Jan. 6 committee\u2019s series of hearings on the 2021 Capitol insurrection, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said the June 16 hearing will focus on former President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201crelentless efforts\u201d to pressure&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4988],"tags":[9070,7407,251,63,6408,14731,14734,15700,16474,242,534,3407,7718,7719,16475,6503,15448,1637,6409,6406,6405,15640,7839,16473,4821,13803,12919,38,5984,8993,5219,9295,14889,15641,15642,1046,10514,321,4875],"class_list":["post-11323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","category-politics-feed","tag-9070","tag-7407","tag-biden","tag-breaking-news","tag-capitol-insurrection","tag-capitol-police","tag-capitol-riot","tag-cheney","tag-day-4","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-election-fraud","tag-election-insecurity","tag-electoral-results","tag-hearing","tag-hearings","tag-house","tag-insurrection","tag-jan-6","tag-january-6","tag-january-6-riot","tag-january-6th","tag-june-16","tag-lawmakers","tag-liz-cheney","tag-mike-pence","tag-news","tag-newshour","tag-overturn","tag-pbs-newshour","tag-pence","tag-proud-boys","tag-right-wing-violence","tag-select-committee","tag-trump","tag-trump-presidency","tag-vice-president","tag-wyoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}