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How to watch the House January 6 committee hearings on the Capitol attack

Business Insider 6/27/2022 gpanetta@businessinsider.com (Grace Panetta)

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) during a break in a hearing of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on June 9, 2022 in Washington, DC. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images

© Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) during a break in a hearing of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on June 9, 2022 in Washington, DC. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images

The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack is holding public hearings.
The panel has held five hearings in June and will hold at least one more on Tuesday.
Here's how to watch the hearings.

The House Select Committee Investigating the January 6 Insurrection at the US Capitol is bringing to light its findings from a year's worth of work with a series of public hearings this summer.

The select committee, formed in May 2021, has nine members, seven Democrats, including Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, and two Republicans, Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.

Its members and staff have spent the past year conducting hundreds of closed-door interviews, poring over hundreds of thousands of documents, and parsing phone and email records to reconstruct how President Donald Trump and his allies sought to overturn his 2020 election loss before a mob of pro-Trump rioters breached the US Capitol in an effort to stop the final certification of the 2020 election.

A primetime hearing Thursday will kick off the House January 6 committee's public hearings. The 8 pm hearing will feature "previously unseen material," the committee said. Donald Trump has made his desire for counter programming clear to congressional allies. For the past year, the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has conducted hundreds of interviews. It has fought in federal court for records, and recommended criminal charges against Trump allies who have defied the panel's subpoenas.Now, the special Housel panel is going primetime.At 8 p.m. ET on Thursday, the House January 6 committee is holding the first of several hearings to air its findings from the investigation into the breach of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob. A second hearing is set for 10 a.m. on Monday, June 13.Thursday's hearing will provide a first flavor of how the House committee plans to present its work. The House committee has yet to announce a schedule for further hearings, but there are expected to be about a half dozen in June.Looming large over the hearings is Trump, who has communicated his desire for counter programming to congressional allies. It is unclear what new information the House committee will present, but the committee has reportedly concluded it has enough evidence to make a criminal referral to the Justice Department recommending charges against the former president.Previewing Thursday's hearing, the committee said it would feature "previously unseen material documenting January 6th," along with witness testimony. The initial witnesses include a documentarian who interviewed members of the Proud Boys — a far-right group whose members were charged Monday with seditious conspiracy — and Caroline Edwards, a respected Capitol Police officer believed to be the first officer injured during the January 6 attack.The string of hearings will combine to provide the American public with what the House committee described as a summary of its findings about a "coordinated, multi-step effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and prevent the transfer of power."Here are the members of the committee to watch as the public hearings unfold.Read the original article on Business Insider

Five public hearings, including one in primetime, have already taken place, and one more hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, June 28.

Here's when and how to watch the hearings:

When are the next January 6 Committee hearings?

The panel scheduled a last-minute hearing for Tuesday, June 28 at 1 p.m. ET "to present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony."

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The committee will hold at least one more and possibly multiple hearings in July after Congress returns from its July 4 recess, Thompson said. The Committee is keeping its hearing schedule flexible and fluid as it continues its investigation and reviews new evidence, including documentary footage from British filmmaker Alex Holder.

In the panel's first hearing, Cheney said that one future hearing will also detail "a moment-by-moment account" of January 6 itself based on live and closed-door testimony from Trump aides.

Here are the witnesses who have testified so far and are expected to testify in future hearings.

How can I watch the first five hearings?

The first public hearing took place in primetime on Thursday, June 9, the second on Monday, June 13, the third on June 16, and the fourth on June 21.

In the first hearing, lawmakers laid out new information about Trump and his allies' efforts to overturn the election, displayed clips from recorded video depositions from those close to Trump and showed a harrowing video montage laying out the timeline of the January 6 attack, including never-before-seen security camera and bodycam footage. You can watch it here.

The second hearing focused on Trump's lies that the 2020 election was tainted by massive fraud and Trump's refusal to accept defeat, using testimony from former Trump officials to detail how Trump preemptively declared victory and doubled down on his election lies despite being advised otherwise. You can watch it here.

The third hearing zeroed in on the Trump-led pressure campaign targeting Vice President Mike Pence, featuring Pence's former chief counsel Greg Jacob and retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig as witnesses. You can watch it here.

The fourth hearing focused on Trump and his allies' efforts to pressure and intimidate state legislators and election officials to overturn his loss in the 2020 election and their ploy to assemble unofficial slates of Trump electors in states that voted for Biden. You can watch it here.

The fifth hearing focused on Trump's attempts to meddle with the Department of Justice and install loyalists at the Department who would back up his false election claims, featuring in-person testimony from three former DOJ officials. You can watch it here.

Where can I watch the next hearings?

Major television networks including ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC/MSNBC, and Fox Business will air the hearings in full or in part. The hearings will also be live-streamed and available to watch in full on C-SPAN and on the Select Committee's YouTube channel.

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