January 6th Select Committee Hearings: Attack On The United States Capitol-Day 1, Showing How Peaceful Transfer Of Power Of Democracy Was Disrupted, (6/9/2022)
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January 6 Insurrection Riot 2021 (Attribution: Tyler Merbler from USA, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en, Presented at: WindermereSun.com)
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Allow me to share these networks’ first televised public hearing on Thursday, June 9, 2022, of the series of hearings on January 6th Committee Hearings, to help all of us better understand what exactly happened on January 6, 2021, the tumultuous day when a group of maddening people attacked our Capitol Building in Washington D.C. and Capitol police officers and the day when our democracy was in peril. It was not a tourists visit to the Capitol. It was not a spontaneous gathering. It was a premeditated attack by the former President of the United States to prevent the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in the American history.
The January 6 House committee is set to hold its first public hearing. The Justice Department also announced charges of seditious conspiracy for five Proud Boys members, including leader Enrique Tarrio, for their role in the riot. CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa joined Scott McFarlane on “Red and Blue” to talk about these new charges and what we may see during the committee’s hearing, in the video published on June 6, 2022, “January 6 committee to hold first public hearing“, below:
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) who is the chairman of the January 6 Select Committee opened the hearings by using video of then-Attorney General Bill Barr talking about how Trump’s election claims weren’t legitimate, in the video published on June 9, 2022, “January 6 hearing opens case against Trump | Bennie Thompson’s opening statement“, below:
Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming said in her opening remarks of the first Jan. 6 committee hearing June 9 that former President Donald Trump’s intention as the violence unfolded “was to remain president of the United States, despite the lawful outcome of the 2020 election.” Rep. Liz Cheney presented video testimony from former Trump advisors, including ex-Attorney General Bill Barr and ex-Senior Advisor Ivanka Trump. The hearing June 9 was the first of several planned by the Jan. 6 committee in the coming weeks. 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. Cheney added that the committee learned that Trump “oversaw and coordinated” a seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election despite advisors being aware Trump had lost. Despite that, Cheney said, the president embarked on a campaign to spread the lie that the election had been stolen. “Over a series of hearings in the coming weeks, you will hear testimony, live on video, from more than half a dozen former white house staff in the trump administration. All of whom were in the west wing of the white house on January 6th. You will hear testimony that ‘The president did not really want to put anything out, calling off the riot or asking his supporters to leave.’ You will hear President Trump was yelling and ‘really angry’ at advisers who told him he needed to be doing something more. And aware of the rioters chants to ‘hang Mike Pence,’ the president responded with this sentiment: ‘Maybe our supporters have the right idea, Mike Pence deserves it.'” in the video published on June 9, 2022, “WATCH: Rep. Liz Cheney says Trump ignored pleas to stop Jan. 6 violence | Jan. 6 hearings“, below:
The January 6 Select Committee presented a video featuring members of The Proud Boys where one described how President Trump’s infamous “stand back and stand by” comment helped boost membership to the group, in the video published on June 9, 2022, “Proud Boys member says Trump comment tripled membership | January 6 hearing“, below:
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will hold its first hearing June 9, offering a glimpse into what it has learned about what led to the insurrection that day and the role of the White House, law enforcement and other officials and agencies before, during and after the attack. The PBS NewsHour’s special coverage of the hearing will begin at 8 p.m. ET. Before the hearing begins, the PBS NewsHour’s Nicole Ellis will take a look at what we’ve learned about the attack since that day, including conversations with Julian Zelizer, a Princeton University professor of history, on the fallout for democracy, and the NewsHour’s Lisa Desjardins, who reported from inside the Capitol as it was attacked and will cover the committee’s hearing. Thursday’s hearing is the first of several the committee, led by Reps. Bennie Thomas, D-Miss., and Liz Cheney R-Wyo., plans to hold this month to lay out key findings. The nine-member panel has interviewed dozens of witnesses, including those within the Secret Service and the White House along with members of law enforcement, Congress and former President Donald Trump’s family. They’ve subpoenaed more than 100 people to testify in the months leading up to the hearings. A select few have also been indicted by the Department of Justice for being in contempt of Congress after refusing to participate, in the video streamed on June 9, 2022, “WATCH LIVE: Jan. 6 Committee hearings – Day 1“, below:
Nicolle Wallace and her MSNBC colleagues review some of the new evidence revealed in the first hour of the first hearing by the January 6th Committee and discuss how the evidence suggests that the attack on the Capitol was not a protest that got out of hand but was Donald Trump’s plan all along, in the video published on June 9, 2022, “January 6 Was Trump’s Plan Is The Theme Of First Hearing’s Evidence“, below:
Stephen Colbert delivers his LIVE monologue after watching the first night of televised hearings held by the January 6th Committee, in the video published on June 10, 2022, “Stephen’s LIVE MONOLOGUE After The January 6th Committee Primetime Hearing“, below:
Footage made available on Jan 16, 2021, by Washington Post, “Inside the U.S. Capitol at the height of the siege | Visual Forensics“, below:
At 2:12 p.m. on Jan. 6, supporters of President Trump began climbing through a window they had smashed on the northwest side of the U.S. Capitol. “Go! Go! Go!” someone shouted as the rioters, some in military gear, streamed in. It was the start of the most serious attack on the Capitol since the War of 1812. The mob coursed through the building, enraged that Congress was preparing to make Trump’s electoral defeat official. “Drag them out! … Hang them out!” rioters yelled at one point, as they gathered near the House chamber. Officials in the House and Senate secured the doors of their respective chambers, but lawmakers were soon forced to retreat to undisclosed locations. Five people died on the grounds that day, including a Capitol police officer. In all, more than 50 officers were injured. To reconstruct the pandemonium inside the Capitol, The Washington Post examined text messages, photos and hundreds of videos, some of which were exclusively obtained. By synchronizing the footage and locating some of the camera angles within a digital 3-D model of the building, The Post was able to map the rioters’ movements and assess how close they came to lawmakers — in some cases feet apart or separated only by a handful of vastly outnumbered police officers, in the video published on Jan 16, 2021, “Inside the U.S. Capitol at the height of the siege | Visual Forensics“, below:
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