U.S. House Committee to hold public hearing on Jan. 6 attack Thursday
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The U.S. House of Representatives Committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021 will be holding its first public hearing Thursday.
Lawmakers will use the primetime hearing to share new video and information about the day, as well as what led up to it.
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The committee is expected to show never-before-seen footage from a filmmaker who was documenting the Proud Boys that day, which shows the first moments of violence against Capitol Police and the chaos that followed.
Committee members have been collecting evidence during the past year and will now lay out those findings and preview what is to come.
FILE - Police hold off violent insurrections loyal to then-President Donald Trump as they try to break through a police barrier Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. Intelligence reports compiled by the U.S. Capitol Police in the days before last year's insurrection envisioned only an improbable or remote risk of violence, even as other assessments warned that crowds of potentially tens of thousands of pro-Trump demonstrators could converge in Washington to create a dangerous situation. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
“What occurred on Jan. 6 was definitely a dark day for our country – our challenge is to get to the facts and circumstances that created it,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi).
The committee is also looking to answer a key question – was the attack at the Capitol part of a planned effort by former President Donald Trump and his top allies – including Republican lawmakers – to overturn the 2020 election?
So far, the nine member bi-partisan panel has done more than 1,000 interviews and issued dozens of subpoenas.
This is why the public hearings will be sorted into different hearing topics, from domestic extremism to security failures, and what the former President was doing inside the White House on Jan. 6.
Most Republicans are pushing back on the hearings, calling the committee partisan.
“They’re not conducting a legitimate investigation. It seems as though they just want to go after their political opponents,” said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California).
ABC will provide a special report of Thursday’s hearing on the U.S. Capitol attack. It will air from 7-9 p.m. on KSTP.