What's next for the Jan. 6 panel: More hearings, more Trump

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Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.).

 

Second hearing to be televised 10 a.m. Monday morning, U.S. EST, with subsequent sessions set for Wednesday and Thursday

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has laid out a roadmap for the hearings this month as it examines President Donald Trump's responsibility for the melee and the damage that resulted for law enforcement officers, members of Congress and others in attendance that day.

 

The next round of hearings won't take place in prime time like the debut on Thursday, but lawmakers will go into greater detail about specific aspects of the insurrection.

 

Here's a snapshot of what the committee says is ahead:

 

‘FALSE AND FRAUDULENT’

Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the Republican vice chair of the committee, said lawmakers will present evidence Monday at the second hearing showing that Trump “engaged in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information” that the election had been stolen — even though advisers and allies told him repeatedly he had lost."

 

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https://news.yahoo.com/whats-next-jan-6-panel-200752912.html

 

 

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20 million people watched first day of Jan. 6 hearings on TV

Roughly 20 million people watched live coverage of the first January 6th House committee hearing on television in primetime Thursday evening, per Nielsen.

 

Why it matters: More people tuned into the hearing than the first day of former President Trump's first impeachment trial in November 2019 (13 million) and the first day of his second impeachment trial in February 2021 (11 million).

 

Details: While coverage varied by network, Nielsen said the hearing aired across 12 networks in total between 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. ET.

 

ABC drew the largest audience by far, with 5.2 million viewers, followed by MSNBC (4.3 million), NBC (3.7 million), CBS (3.5 million), CNN (2.6 million) and Fox Business Network (223,000).

 

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https://www.axios.com/2022/06/11/jan-6-hearings-tv

 

 

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The committee has both minimalist and maximalist aims. At a minimum, it needs to turn enough Americans away from the #biglie that it stops being the defining issue of the Republican Party, allowing the nation to stop litigating the last election and do what it’s failed to do for the first time in the country’s almost 250 years of democracy: transfer power peacefully and move on.

Maximally, and simultaneously, the committee must show the American people its evidence indicting the former president on two federal charges: obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the United States.

 

https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/06/10/january-6-committee-public-hearing-capitol-hill-donald-trump/