In international news, and the congressional investigation into the attack on January 6 of last year in the United States Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump closes its hearings today.
The hearing, which will be shown in prime time in the United States, will detail the two scenes of violence that occurred as Trump supporters fought their way to the Capitol. It will also focus on the former president’s actions in the 187 minutes between his speech urging the crowd to “fight like hell” and the final release of a video urging the rioters to go home .
Before the hearing, Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger posted a video on Twitter in which former White House aides and officials described Trump watching television footage of the mobs that stormed the Capitol in a private White House dining room.
Scheduled to start at 10am AEST, the public hearing is expected to be the last of eight the House of Representatives Select Committee has held since mid-June.
“The focus of this hearing is what was going on here on Capitol Hill when that crowd broke through the barriers and stormed the Capitol and caused a delay in the certification of the Electoral College vote,” a committee aide said to reporters, speaking on condition of anonymity for a preview. the audience.
“We’re going to remind people that there was this inaction at the White House,” the aide added, noting that Trump didn’t release the video of himself telling his supporters to go home until after 4 p.m.: 00 US time.
This masthead’s US correspondent, Farrah Tomazin, will lead our audience coverage from the US, with a live blog from Marta Pascual Juanola from 9am AEST today. Stay tuned.