In its first public hearing, the House select committee said that former President Donald Trump was to blame for the Capitol riot.
The committee's chairman said that Donald Trump was at the center of the conspiracy. Donald Trump spurred a mob of domestic enemies of the Constitution to march down the Capitol.
Video and audio clips from interviews with witnesses, such as former Attorney General William Barr, were included in the two-hour hearing.
Two witnesses, a U.S. Capitol Police officer and a film maker, spoke in person to recount their experiences during the riot. The footage from the riot was used by the committee to show new perspectives on the pro- Trump mob's attack on the police officers.
Over the course of the investigation so far, the panel has gathered more than a thousand witness interviews and over a hundred thousand documents. The investigations are still going on and there is more evidence that the Justice Department has yet to review.
The next six hearings will unfold according to a framework laid out by the committee's vice chair. Each hearing will focus on a separate piece of a seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power, according to her opening statement.
The multi-pronged plan was coordinated by Trump.
The hearings will show that President Trump believed his supporters at the Capitol and that they were doing what they should be doing. He told his staff to tell his supporters to leave as they begged him to call off the mob.
In a series of posts on Truth Social, Trump accused the committee of not showing the many positive witnesses and statements and playing only negative footage.
The table for the next presentations is expected to be set in the first hearing. Three more hearings will be held next week.
The second hearing will show that Trump and his advisors were aware that Biden was going to win the election. This wasn't true according to Cheney.
She played a clip from a witness interview in which a campaign data expert told Trump he would lose the election.
Alex Cannon, a lawyer for the Trump campaign, told the White House chief of staff in late November that there was no evidence of election fraud and that it would be enough to change the results.
Cannon testified thatMeadows thought there was no there.
Cheney played a clip of Trump telling the committee that she accepted Barr's conclusion that there was no evidence of widespread fraud.
There will be a hearing on Monday at 10:00 a.m. Chris Stirewalt, the former Fox News political editor who came under fire from Trump's supporters after Fox called Arizona for Biden, will testify. He will testify on the NewsNation cable network on Friday.
The committee will show that Trump planned to replace the Attorney General so the U.S. Justice Department would spread his false election claims.
She talked about Trump trying to install Jeffrey Clark, a DOJ lawyer, as acting attorney general and have him send letters to key states claiming that the government has identified significant concerns that may have affected the outcome of the election.
Cheney said the DOJ had told Trump the opposite of what Clark had written.
The third hearing will show how top officials in the DOJ threatened to resign and confronted Trump in the Oval Office.
Multiple other Republican congressmen sought presidential pardons for their roles in trying to overturn the election. She said that the congressman tried to get Clark promoted and refused to testify.
The fourth hearing will focus on how Trump tried to get his own vice president to vote against key Electoral College votes when he was in charge of Congress.
The vice president's former general counsel will give you a detailed description. According to Cheney, witnesses in the hearings will explain how the former vice president and his staff told the president that what he was doing was illegal.
John Eastman, an attorney who was involved in Trump's efforts, will be the focus of the hearing. On the day of the riot, Greg Jacob, Pence's chief counsel, wrote a letter to Eastman saying, "Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege"
The committee will scrutinize how Trump corrupted state legislators and election officials to change election results. Trump called Georgia election officials and asked them to find 11,780 votes, the number he thought he needed to win the state.
In June, there will be two more hearings. They will look at how Trump ordered a violent mob to march on the U.S. Capitol and failed to stop the violence once it started.
Initial findings from the committee's investigation are represented in the hearings. The final report must be issued by the panel and recommendations must be made. Thompson said the report might arrive by the fall.
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