Live Updates: The House Jan 6 committee's hearing on the Capitol insurrection

Table Of Content

• Democrat Bennie Thompson and Republican Liz Cheney lead the Jan. 6 committee
• How Republicans have tried to block the committee's actions
• Shafik says professor who called Hamas attack "awesome" was removed as committee chair but later walks back answer
• Tonight's hearing was designed for prime time — by a former TV news executive
• Kaiser Permanente notifies 13.4 million members of data breach. City of Hope also reported breach
• Columbia President Shafik condemns professor who praised October 7 attack

Sandra Garza, the partner of late Officer Brian Sicknick, who died on Jan. 7, 2021, after engaging with rioters, has arrived at the hearing. She  was accompanied by members of the Capitol police, including Capitol police officer Harry Dunn, as well as retired Metropolitan PD officer Michael Fanone. "Not only did President Trump refuse to tell the mob to leave the Capitol, he placed no call to any element of the United States government to instruct that the Capitol be defended," Cheney said. In a statement issued late Thursday night, Trump called the select committee members "political hacks" and accused them of not playing "any of the many positive witnesses and statements" during the hearing. "At no point that day did I ever think about the politics of that crowd, even the things that were being said did not resonate in the midst of that chaos. But what did resonate was the fact that thousands of Americans were attacking police officers who were simply doing their job," Fanone said. Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chair of the Jan. 6 select committee, vowed to the officers who testified that they would get answers about what happened during the insurrection.

Democrat Bennie Thompson and Republican Liz Cheney lead the Jan. 6 committee

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The committee's chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, will deliver an opening statement insisting the attack on the Capitol was an "attempt to undermine the will of the people." Cheney detailed the committee's plans to examine the legal strategy underpinning Trump's efforts to overturn the election results, specifically the work of conservative attorney John Eastman, a professor who crafted a plan for Pence to reject states' electoral votes. The committee is planning several more hearings this month to continue laying out the findings of the 11-month investigation. Committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson and vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney in their extraordinary opening statements detailed how many Trump administration officials themselves did not believe the former president's baseless claims of a stolen election. Miller emphasized that the military must play a "subordinate role" when it comes to troops needed to get involved in domestic situations to support local law enforcement agencies.

How Republicans have tried to block the committee's actions

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Our country has had angry public fights over contested presidential elections before. "The Liebengood family wants Howie's death to not have been in vain," she wrote, according to the letter obtained by CBS News. Capitol Police to designate her husband's death as "in the line of duty," and wrote "the UCSP must be held accountable for its actions and structural reforms instituted" to address the mental health of its officers.

Shafik says professor who called Hamas attack "awesome" was removed as committee chair but later walks back answer

House lawmakers escalated efforts to restrict video-sharing platform TikTok, renewing pressure on the Senate by advancing a bill Saturday that would force the company to be sold or face a national ban as part of a broader package sending aid to Israel and Ukraine. Four Columbia University officials, including the university’s president and the leaders of its board, went before Congress on Wednesday to try to extinguish criticism that the campus in New York has become a hub of antisemitic behavior and thought. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici asked Columbia President Minouche Shafik, board co-chairs David Greenwald and Claire Shipman and David Schizer, co-chair of a task force on antisemitism, for a simple yes or no response. All four said “yes,” calls for the genocide of Jews would violate Columbia’s code of conduct. The arrival of the president’s son at the Oversight Committee, which has been engaged in a yearlong probe, sitting in the audience with his legal team, including attorney Abbe Lowell, sent the panel into chaos.

While the Democratic-led House select committee was laying out its findings on the Capitol insurrection, Republican leaders were again blasting the panel — and trying to change the subject. In opening statements, committee members have put former President Donald Trump squarely at the center of a conspiracy over election fraud that led to the deadly riot that day. At the end of Wednesday's hearing, Foxx left open the possibility that the committee would convene another hearing centered on Columbia. She told school officials, "We are prepared to bring you back if we don't see more tangible progress." Columbia is under investigation by the House Education Committee for "the inadequacy of Columbia's response to antisemitism on its campus," according to a letter the committee sent to the school.

Tonight's hearing was designed for prime time — by a former TV news executive

The committees’ votes Wednesday on contempt of Congress come a day before Hunter Biden is scheduled to make his first court appearance on tax charges filed by a special counsel in Los Angeles. He is facing three felony and six misdemeanor counts, including filing a false return, tax evasion, failure to file and failure to pay. One Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, insisted that Hunter Biden be quickly arrested.

"All [Democrats] are doing is trying to paint a new political narrative ... because the Democrat agenda has failed," Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds said on Fox News in a video clip that was shared by former President Donald Trump's political action committee. Aispuro, who has been with the department for 19½ years, put out an emergency broadcast that included a description of the Camry, Luna said. That led authorities to a house in La Puente, where several people were detained but not arrested, and ultimately released, Luna said. “Based on statements, security camera video in West Covina, witness statements and the firearm recovered by CHP, detectives strongly believe Raymundo Duran is the suspect in the shooting of our deputy,” Luna said.

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"We're deeply disturbed by what we're seeing at Columbia, any of the things we've heard in today's hearing," US Rep. Virginia Foxx said. While Republicans say their inquiry is ultimately focused on the president, they have taken particular interest in Hunter Biden and his overseas business dealings, questioning whether the president profited from that work. He added, “There is no fairness or decency in what these Republicans are doing — they have lied over and over about every aspect of my personal and professional life — so much so that their lies have become the false facts believed by too many people. Shelving the contempt of Congress charges would likely further stoke conservative criticism that the Justice Department is politicized — especially given that two one-time advisers to former President Donald Trump were prosecuted for contempt of Congress by the Biden administration. If the contempt referral against Hunter Biden passes the full House it would be yet another challenge for federal prosecutors already under heavy scrutiny for their handling of charges against him related to his taxes and gun use.

Columbia President Shafik condemns professor who praised October 7 attack

"January 6 was the culmination of an attempted coup. A brazen attempt, as one rioter put it shortly after January 6, to overthrow the government. The violence was no accident." Barr said he couldn't live in a world where an incumbent administration stays in power based on "unsupported by specific evidence that there was fraud in the election." Cheney said testimony will also show that Trump refused for hours to instruct his supporters to stand down and leave the Capitol.

There are hundreds of still-unidentified photographs of rioters on the FBI's "most wanted" website, indicating that plenty of people who stormed the Capitol haven't been charged yet — and that the unprecedented investigation continues. In an exchange with Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch, the lawmaker asked about remarks Miller made earlier this year to Vice saying he believed Trump's speech on the morning of Jan. 6 incited the rioters who stormed the US Capitol. “Outright propaganda and lies are being used to unleash the national security state against law-abiding US citizens, especially Trump voters,” Gosar said. “In my career as a judge and in law enforcement, I have not seen a more dangerous threat to democracy than the invasion of the Capitol,” Garland said.

Edwards still hasn't been able to return to her regular duties prior to Jan. 6, 2021, after she was injured by rioters. "I was called a lot of things on January 6, 2021, and the days thereafter," she said, including "Nancy Pelosi's dog," a "traitor," a "hero," and a "villain." U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards recalled how her patriotism was called into question on Jan. 6, 2021, and in the days after. Filmmaker and documentarian Nick Quested told the committee he was "confused" that a couple hundred Proud Boys members were marching in the direction of the Capitol before Trump even began speaking.

But in all these contested elections, the president or nominee never called the election or the process illegitimate. The president or nominee never assailed the process before the election began (as Trump did) and never sought to mobilize public opinion against the very procedures that elected the eventual winner. In 2000, Florida gripped the nation as a recount tried to assess obvious questions about voter intent in some counties.

TikTok has blasted lawmakers’ efforts to potentially ban the app as an affront on free speech and disputes lawmakers’ suggestions that it is beholden to China or any government. The Senate plans to take the matter up Tuesday, Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement emailed to The Post. TikTok is “a spy balloon in Americans’ phones” used to “surveil and exploit America’s personal information,” Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said Saturday as he introduced the measure for debate. The unorthodox maneuver could expedite the crackdown’s path through Congress, where negotiations had slowed after an earlier attempt hurtled through the House last month. With growing support in the Senate, the legislation appears more likely than ever to become law. The topic surfaced early in Wednesday’s hearing about Columbia, and the Columbia witnesses did not hesitate when they answered.

The conservative network announced Tuesday that the cable channel will only cover the hearings “as news warrants,” but the proceedings will be livestreamed on the network’s other outlets such as Fox Business and Fox Nation. Lawmakers on the committee, however, have stressed in recent days that the hearings will provide dramatic and “disturbing” new evidence around what took place leading up to Jan. 6. "We are in fact in a situation where he continues to use even more extreme language, frankly, than the language that caused the attack," Cheney said Sunday. "And so, people must pay attention. People must watch, and they must understand how easily our democratic system can unravel if we don't defend it."

Capitol kicked off the first in a series of public hearings with never-before-seen footage from the attack that day as well as clips of videotaped testimony from some of people in former President Donald Trump's orbit, including his daughter Ivanka Trump. The hearings might lead the House committee to recommend more criminal charges, says William Banks, a professor of law and public policy at Syracuse University. But any actions the DOJ may take in the aftermath of the hearings and the committee's report on the investigation could take time. Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chair of the Jan. 6 committee, spoke to reporters after the panel's first hearing wrapped. Lawmakers heard from four police officers who tried to defend the US Capitol during the riot. The prime time hearing of the House select committee on the Jan. 6 Capitol attack ended with a video montage of various rioters saying why they showed up to try to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 election results.

But the main theme of the hearing was detailing the chaos and violence of Jan. 6, 2021. Cheney said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy texted Trump family members and told them he was "scared" about what was happening. Miller also told the committee that there are “complexities to redeploying forces in an urban environment" that also played a role.