Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson described being told by a White House aide about Trump angrily lunging at the driver of his presidential SUV and demanding to be taken from his rally to the Capitol as the mob formed on Jan. Secret Service after issuing a subpoena to produce missing text messages from that day. 6 and was rushed to safety, is also expected, according to a person familiar with the committee’s planning who was not authorized to discuss it publicly and requested anonymity.įor weeks the panel has been in talks with the U.S. 6.įresh information about the movements of then-Vice President Mike Pence, who was presiding over the joint session of Congress on Jan. She was in contact with the White House during the run-up to Jan. Unlike past hearings, this one is not expected to feature live witnesses, though the panel is expected to share information from its recent interviews - including testimony from Ginni Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Jen Kiggans, a former Navy helicopter pilot. Elaine Luria, D-Va., a retired Naval commander, is in a tough reelection bid against state Sen. Cheney lost her primary election and Kinzinger decided not to run.Īnother committee member, Rep. The session will serve as a closing argument by the panel’s two Republican lawmakers, Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who have essentially been shunned by Trump and their party and will not be returning in the new Congress. 6 are now running for congressional office, some with Trump’s backing. Several people who were among the thousands around the Capitol on Jan. “And those individuals were known to people in the Trump orbit.”Ĭhairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., is poised to gavel in Thursday’s session at an otherwise empty Capitol complex, with most lawmakers at home campaigning for reelection. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., a committee member, told CNN. “The mob was led by some extremist groups - they plotted in advance what they were going to do,” Rep. The result was the deadly mob siege of the Capitol. The committee is starting to sum up its findings: Trump, after losing the 2020 presidential election, launched an unprecedented attempt to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory. The hearing Thursday afternoon, the 10th public session by the panel, is expected delve into Trump’s “state of mind” and the central role the defeated president played in the multipart effort to overturn the election, according to a committee aide who discussed the plans on condition of anonymity. Capitol in what is likely to be its last public hearing before the November midterm elections. 6 committee is set to unveil “surprising” details including evidence from Donald Trump’s Secret Service about the 2021 attack on the U.S.
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