The Jan. 6 Hearings Are Really An Inquest Into The ‘Big Lie’

The Jan. 6 Hearings Are Really An Inquest Into The ‘Big Lie’

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Former President Donald Trump Believes that the House Special Committee investigating the deadly January 6 riot at the US Capitol should not investigate the attack, but should instead investigate the allegations of voter fraud that spurred the attack. But Trump is not allowed to watch the hearings because they are about these … Read more

Can The Jan. 6 Hearings Change Public Opinion?

Can The Jan. 6 Hearings Change Public Opinion?

In Part 2 of this episode of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke speaks with Kaleigh Rogers about the ongoing hearings of the House Special Committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol and how the message of those hearings is being conveyed both emotionally and throughly raw statements developed footage from … Read more

The Jan. 6 Committee Hosted A Hearing For The 21st Century

The Jan. 6 Committee Hosted A Hearing For The 21st Century

MANDEL NGAN / POOL / AFP via Getty Images The slaughter was impossible to deny. When the House Special Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol presented its evidence that former President Donald Trump was the catalyst behind the attack on American democracy, a 12 minute video showed the full consequences of … Read more

Judge rejects Trump effort to toss lawsuits accusing him of Jan. 6 conspiracy

Judge rejects Trump effort to toss lawsuits accusing him of Jan. 6 conspiracy

The ruling leaves Trump’s inner circle — and possibly the former president himself — vulnerable to another corridor of deposition subpoenas and document demands. The ruling also declares Trump potentially liable for conduct while he was the sitting president, a rare and momentous legal decision. “To deny a President’s immunity from civil damages is no … Read more

Politics Podcast: How Jan. 6 Turned Into A Dividing Line For Republicans

Politics Podcast: Adam Schiff Is Worried About American Democracy

Earlier this month, the Republican National Committee voted to censor representative Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for serving on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, describing the inquiry as the “persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.” Some GOP lawmakers and elites criticized the resolution, while … Read more

John Eastman claims attorney-client privilege over thousands of pages sought by Jan. 6 investigators

John Eastman claims attorney-client privilege over thousands of pages sought by Jan. 6 investigators

Eastman and House investigators are due in court Monday afternoon to update Carter on their progress. Eastman became a central player in developing Trump’s legal strategy to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally overturn the 2020 election on Jan. 6, 2021. Pence, who presided over a joint session of Congress that day required to … Read more

Every Republican has to answer about Jan. 6, Kinzinger says

Republican on Jan. 6 committee: McCarthy warning is 'really bad politics'

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) speaks before a July 27, 2021, House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill. | Chip Somodevilla/Pool via AP One of the two Republicans on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots said Sunday that every Republican will ultimately have to say whether they believe … Read more

Jan. 6 rioter regrets plea deal, is sorry she got in trouble

Jan. 6 rioter regrets plea deal, is sorry she got in trouble

WASHINGTON — A Beverly Hills cosmetologist who stormed the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in support of the man she calls “Trumpy Bear,” recently told fellow supporters that she only pleaded guilty “to stay out of jail,” that she didn’t read the please deal she signed, and that she doesn’t think Capitol defendants will … Read more