Thursday’s hearing will begin with the testimony of an eyewitness to the first police officer hit by the mob uprising and a documentary filmmaker who recorded the hand-to-hand combat, and will include testimonies from a panel of Trump aides and members of the family of the deadly Turk. who threw the US. democracy at stake. “When you hear and understand the widespread conspiracy and the attempt to try to corrupt every lever and government body involved in it, you know, the hairs on the back of your neck will have to stand up,” said Elaine Luria, D. -O Ba., A member of the 1/6 committee, said in an interview with the Associated Press. “Putting it all together in one place and a coherent narrative, I think, will help the American people better understand what happened on January 6 – and the threats it could pose in the future.” The Committee’s 1/6 annual inquiry into the Capitol attack will begin to show how America’s tradition of a peaceful transfer of power was about to slip away. He will reconstruct the way in which Trump refused to concede the 2020 election, spread false allegations of voter fraud and orchestrated an unprecedented public and private campaign to overthrow Biden’s victory. The outcome of the coming weeks of public hearings may not change the hearts or minds of politically polarized America. But the commission’s 1,000-interview survey is set to set a public record for history. A final report aims to provide a record of the most violent attack on the Capitol since the British set it on fire in 1814 and to ensure that such an attack never happens again. Emotions are still raw in the Capitol and security will be strict for the hearings. Law enforcement officials report an increase in violent threats against members of Congress. In this context, the commission will try to speak in a divided America, in view of the midterm elections in the fall, when voters decide which party controls Congress. Most TV networks will broadcast the auditions live, but Fox News Channel will not. The committee’s chair, civil rights leader MP Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., And the vice-chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, will set the tone for the opening remarks. The two leaders of Congress will describe what the committee learned about the events that led to that lively day in January 2021, when Trump sent his supporters to Congress to “fight like hell” for his presidency. Lawmakers undertook the standard routine work of certifying the previous November results. “People will have to follow two crossroads – one will be the attempt to overthrow the presidential election, this is a painful story in itself,” said Jamie Raskin, D-Md. the app. “The other will be the sequence of events that will lead to a violent mob attack on the Capitol to stop the counting of votes in the Electoral College and to disrupt the peaceful balance of power,” he said. First will be the devastating reports from the police that he took part in a hand-to-hand battle with the mob, with the testimony of the US Capitol police officer Caroline Edwards, who was seriously injured in the attack. Also on Thursday will be documentary filmmaker Nick Quested, who filmed the extremist Proud Boys invading the Capitol. Some members of this group have since been indicted, as have some of the Oath Keepers, on rare counts of insurgency. Along with the living eyewitness account, the panel will uncover multimedia presentations, including unreleased video and audio, as well as a “mountain of evidence,” said a panel aide who insisted on anonymity to preview the hearing. There will be accounts recorded by Trump’s top aides in the White House, the government and the campaign, as well as members of the Trump family, the aide said. In the coming weeks, the commission is expected to present in detail Trump’s public campaign to “Stop Theft” and private pressure on the Justice Department to reverse its electoral defeat – despite dozens of failed court cases and its own attorney general. who confirmed that there was no fraud on a scale that could have tilted the results in his favor. The nine-legislature has faced obstacles since its inception. Republicans have prevented the formation of an independent body that could have investigated the January 6 attack in the way the 9/11 Commission investigated the 2001 terrorist attack. Instead, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi inaugurated the 1/6 committee through Congress on the objections of Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell. She rejected lawmakers nominated by Republicans who voted against certifying the election results Jan. 6, electing her own members she preferred to serve. Trump has dismissed the investigation as illegal and many Republicans are ready to defend him. New York MP Eliz Stefanik told a news conference with the Democratic Party leadership that the commission’s “shameless show in prime-time” was nothing more than a smear campaign against the former president, his party and his supporters. But by far, the attack began shortly after election day, when Trump falsely claimed the ballot was rigged and refused to concede as soon as Biden was declared the winner. The proceedings are expected to introduce Americans to a cast of characters, some known, some elusive, and what they said and did as Trump and his allies tried to overturn the election result. The public will learn about the actions of Mark Meadows, the president’s chief of staff, whose more than 2,000 text messages provided the committee with a real-time snapshot of the struggle to keep Trump in power. By John Eastman, the conservative law professor who was the architect of the failed plan to persuade Vice President Mike Pence to stop certifying on Jan. 6. From Justice Department officials who threatened to resign instead of following Trump’s surprising proposals. Lawmakers have also been involved in the investigation, including House of Representatives GOP Chairman Kevin McCarthy, who defied the committee’s summons. Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, who urged her father to quell the rioters, appeared before the commission in private. The Ministry of Justice has arrested and charged more than 800 people with violence that day, the largest net in its history.
Associated Press writers Kevin Freking and Michael Balsamo contributed to this report.
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