January 6th Select Committee Hearings: Attack On The United States Capitol – Day 3 Continued (6/16/2022)
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Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., focused on legal memos written by John Eastman, Trump’s campaign lawyer, who laid out the “non-sensible” theory that Vice President Mike Pence could overturn the election results. In one memo, Eastman presented several scenarios, Cheney said, that showed how the vice president could “just declare Donald Trump the winner regardless of the vote totals that had already been certified by the states.” This involved rejecting slates of electors. “This was false, and Dr. Eastman knew it was false. In other words, it was a lie,” she added. 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, in the video published on June 16, 2022, “WATCH: Trump lawyer knew theory for Pence to overturn election was false, Cheney says“, below:
Former Judge J. Michael Luttig testified on June 16 as the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack presented its findings to the public. Luttig said despite claims from President Donald Trump and John Eastman, his campaign lawyer, former Vice President Mike Pence had no authority to alter the counting of the electoral votes. “There was no basis in the constitution or laws of the United States – at all – for the theory espoused by Mr. Eastman. At all, none,” Luttig told the Jan. 6 committee. He added that Pence “had little substantive constitutional authority, if any at all,” to reject Congress’ official count of Electoral College votes on the day of the Jan. 6 attack. 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. The committee postponed a hearing scheduled for June 15 that was meant to focus on Trump’s efforts to replace Attorney General Bill Barr, who did not support his claims of voter fraud after the election, in the video published on June 16, 2022, “WATCH: Luttig says Pence had no constitutional right to overturn election| Jan. 6 hearings“, below:
Greg Jacob, who served as one of former Vice President Mike Pence’s lawyers, testified June 16 before the House Jan. 6 committee that the Constitution did not provide a means for Pence to refuse count electoral votes for Biden and therefore change the outcome of the 2020 election, as former President Donald Trump suggested. “There is just no way that the framers of the Constitution — who divided power and authority, separated it down, had broken away from George III and declared him a tyrant — there is no way they would put in the hands of one person the authority to determine who was going to be president of the United States,” Jacob said. “In 230 years of history, no one had ever claimed to have that kind of authority, hadn’t claimed authority to reject electoral votes and not claim authority to return electoral votes back to the states, in the entire history of the United States, not once had a joint session ever returned electoral votes back to the states to be counted,” Jacob said. The hearing was the third of several planned by the Jan. 6 committee that focused on Trump’s efforts to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence to reject Congress’ official count of Electoral College votes on the day of the Capitol attack. 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. The committee postponed a hearing scheduled for June 15 that was meant to focus on Trump’s efforts to replace Attorney General Bill Barr, who did not support his claims of voter fraud after the election, in the video published on June 16, 2022, “WATCH: Pence lawyer Greg Jacob on why vice president had no authority to refuse electoral votes“, below:
“They thought he was crazy,” former Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller said of Trump attorney John Eastman’s theory that Mike Pence could overturn the election, in the video published on June 16, 2022, “Trump’s inner circle testifies on theory Pence could overturn election“, below:
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol resumes its series of hearings in an effort to show the American public how democracy came to the brink of disaster, in the video streamed on June 16, 2022, “WATCH LIVE|Day 3 of Jan. 6 committee hearings| AP News“, below:
Video streamed on June 16, 2022, “WATCH LIVE: January 6 Capitol attack hearing| ABC News“, below:
Watch live coverage of a public hearing from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, has said the panel’s work seeks to “uncover the facts, tell the American people the full story of January 6th and ensure that nothing like that day ever happens again.” This is the third in a series of public hearings. Afterward, the committee of seven Democrats and two Republicans will report its findings sometime before the midterm elections on Nov. 8. Former president Donald Trump and his Republican allies continue to call the probe a witch hunt focused on scoring political points. Libby Casey will anchor uninterrupted coverage from The Washington Post newsroom, with reporting and analysis from Rhonda Colvin on Capitol Hill, Hannah Jewell, Mary Beth Albright and James Hohmann. Read more: https://wapo.st/3twyC11. In the video streamed on June 16, 2022, “Jan. 6 committee holds third public hearing in series – 6/16 (FULL LIVE STREAM)“, below:
House Select Committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol, streamed on June 16, 2022, “Jan. 6 House Select Committee continues public hearings“, below:
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