{"id":11709,"date":"2022-06-21T21:55:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T21:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/watch-rep-thompson-gives-closing-statement-jan-6-hearings\/"},"modified":"2022-06-21T21:55:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T21:55:28","slug":"watch-rep-thompson-gives-closing-statement-jan-6-hearings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=11709","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Rep. Thompson gives closing statement | Jan. 6 hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/szAFea1NSTk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. gave a closing statement on June 21 during a public hearing before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. He said the election officials and workers who gave testimony on Tuesday\u2019s hearing \u201crepresent the backbone of our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson said that Thursday\u2019s hearing will focus on how former President Donald Trump attempted \u201cto corrupt the country\u2019s top law enforcement body, the Justice Department\u201d and that Trump \u201cwas also the driving force behind the effort to corrupt the Justice Department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A clip was also played from former deputy acting Attorney General Richard Donoghue who said he would \u201cresign immediately\u201d if Jeff Rosen, then-acting attorney general, was replaced by Jeff Clark, a Justice Department official who was reportedly part of the effort undermine the 2020 election. Thompson said more will be heard from Donaghue during the upcoming hearing on June 23.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s hearing was the fourth of several planned by the Jan. 6 committee to present its findings to the public. It focused on Trump\u2019s efforts to pressure state legislators and local election officials to change the results of the 2020 presidential election. 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.<\/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 \/>\nFacebook: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/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\/newshourv\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshourv<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. gave a closing statement on June 21 during a public hearing before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. He said the election officials and workers who gave testimony on Tuesday\u2019s hearing \u201crepresent the backbone&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4988],"tags":[9070,7407,251,63,6408,14731,14734,15696,242,534,3407,7718,7719,15698,15699,6503,15448,1637,6409,6406,6405,15640,7839,15697,4821,15007,38,5984,5219,9295,14889,15641,15642,1046,10514],"class_list":["post-11709","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-day-2","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-election-fraud","tag-election-insecurity","tag-false-information","tag-fraudulent","tag-hearing","tag-hearings","tag-house","tag-insurrection","tag-jan-6","tag-january-6","tag-january-6-riot","tag-january-6th","tag-june-13","tag-lawmakers","tag-misinformation","tag-news","tag-newshour","tag-pbs-newshour","tag-pence","tag-proud-boys","tag-right-wing-violence","tag-select-committee","tag-trump","tag-trump-presidency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11709","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=11709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}