The select committee of the House investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will hold another public hearing on Tuesday, this time focusing on the role of extremists that day.
Committee spokesman Jamie Raskin told Face the Nation on Sunday that the next hearing “will continue the story of Donald Trump’s attempt to overthrow the 2020 presidential election.”
CBS News will broadcast the hearing as a special report starting at 1 p.m. ET.
Raskin noted Sunday that the committee has so far been explaining former President Trump’s pressure campaigns on the vice president, the Justice Department, state lawmakers and local election officials ahead of the planned congressional hearing. Electoral law on January 6. Documentary filmmaker Nick Quested, who joined the Proud Boys on January 6, has provided footage of his film to the committee, some of which were shown at the first public hearing on June 9.
“One of the things people will learn is the fundamental importance of a meeting that took place in the White House” on Dec. 18, Raskin said.
A video of former President Donald Trump is being played while Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, testifies during the sixth hearing of the House Selection Committee to investigate the May 6 attack. January at the United States Capitol in the canyon. House Office Building on June 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images
“And that day, the group of outside lawyers who have been dubbed‘ Team Crazy ’by people in and around the White House, came in to try to urge several new lines of action, including the confiscation of voting machines in the whole country. ”Raskin said. “And so some of the people involved in that were Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani was around for that discussion, Michael Flynn was around for that. But against this ‘Team Crazy’ there was a internal group of lawyers who essentially wanted the president at that time to acknowledge that he had lost the election and were much more willing to accept the reality of his defeat at that time. “
Raskin said in the middle of the night of Dec. 19, Trump sent a tweet “after a crazy rally, one that has been described as the craziest rally in all of Trump’s presidency.”
“Donald Trump sent the tweet that would be heard around the world, the first time in U.S. history when a U.S. president called a protest against his own government, in fact, to try to stop the vote count from the polling station to a presidential election he had lost, “Raskin said. “Absolutely unprecedented, nothing like this had ever happened before. So people will hear the story of this tweet, and then the explosive effect it had on Trump World and specifically among domestic violent extremist groups, the most political extremists dangerous world. “
Last week, Trump White House attorney Pat Cipollone testified before the committee for more than eight hours. Raskin said Cipollone gave “valuable” information to the committee.
“We will use much of Mr. Cipollone’s testimony to corroborate other things we have learned along the way,” Raskin said. “He was the White House adviser at the time. He was aware of all the major moves I think Donald Trump was making to try to overthrow the 2020 election and essentially seize the presidency.”
The January 6 committee of the House has held seven public hearings in June and July to show the evidence they have gathered during the eleven-month investigation. The committee has heard hundreds of hours of testimony, including some from leading members of Trump’s inner circle.
In addition to information on lobbying campaigns, the committee has also revealed new details about the scheme allegedly proposed by Trump’s allies to present fake voters from various battlefield states that President Joe Biden won.
On June 28, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, testified publicly in a hastily added hearing. His highly successful testimony included that Trump was told the Ellipse crowd on Jan. 6 that he had guns and other weapons, and that the former president wanted to join them on the way to the Capitol. . He also said he was told Trump threw himself at a Secret Service agent in a presidential vehicle.
Hutchinson also testified that Meadows told him in the days leading up to Jan. 6 that “There’s a lot to do in Cass, but I don’t know, things could go really wrong on Jan. 6.”
This weekend, lawyers for Trump’s campaign strategist Steve Bannon, who has been accused by the Justice Department of refusing to serve a subpoena to testify, sent a letter to the committee saying he is willing to testify. publicly.
Bannon has cited executive privilege in his refusal to testify, but Trump sent a letter to Bannon’s attorneys waiving executive privilege. Mr. Biden has rejected Trump’s claims about the executive’s privilege, and this has been upheld by the Supreme Court.