January 6 hearings

This week’s gripping testimony to Congress about threats to local election officials following the 2020 presidential election had a rapt audience outside Washington — secretaries of state and election clerks across the U.S who said the stories could easily have been their own.

After testimony from multiple Republican officials on the lead-up to the January 6 Capitol Riot, the testimony of a mother-daughter team of former elections workers stands out. Ruby Freeman and daughter Shaye Moss opened up to Congress about the threats that supporters of then-President Donald Trump made to them and their family simply for doing her job – and it...

On the fourth day of the Jan. 6 hearing, former election worker Shaye Moss explains how she was targeted after Rudy Giuliani falsely accused her and her mom of voter fraud.
L / Shaye Moss, Former Georgia Elections Worker

The Jan. 6 committee played audio of Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, two of Trump’s lawyers, calling state legislators and pressing them to overturn the election.

In Tuesday’s Jan. 6 hearing, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) showed “previously undisclosed” footage tying Jan. 6 protesters to demonstrations at  state capitols across the country.

Republican Rep. Liz Cheney opened Tuesday’s Jan. 6 hearing by urging viewers to focus on the evidence. “Do not be distracted by politics. This is serious,” Cheney said.

The January 6th Committee Hearings will continue next week. LX News storyteller Clark Fouraker breaks down the schedule and what you can expect.

Camila Dechalus, Political Reporter for Business Insider joins LX News Now to discuss the January 6th committee hearings. 

In Thursday’s Jan. 6 hearing, Rep. Pete Aguilar revealed that John Eastman emailed Rudy Giuliani after the Capitol riot asking to be on the “pardon list.”

Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) said his committee’s investigation found that after former President Donald Trump tweeted that “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage” to send votes back to the states, the situation at the U.S. Capitol intensified.

In Thursday’s Jan. 6 hearing, Rep. Pete Aguilar detailed a conversation former President Donald Trump had with former Vice President Mike Pence after he said he could not overturn the election.

In Thursday’s hearing on the Capitol riot, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) called Jan. 6 a “legal scheme in deception.”

As the January 6th committee hearings continue this week, Senior DC Politics Reporter for Insider Camila DeChalus joins LX News to break down some of the biggest talking points so far.

In his Jan. 6 hearing testimony, White House counsel Eric Herschmann recalled demanding an ‘orderly transition’ the day after the Capitol riot.

In a hearing Monday, the House Jan. 6 committee detailed a rift in Donald Trump’s staff as the 2020 election results rolled in. Many campaign and government staffers were heard recounting their conversations with Trump about the election and his unsupported claims about mail-in ballots and voting machines – but Trump continued to fundraise off what the committee called “The...

In her closing statement at Monday’s Jan. 6 hearing, Rep. Zoe Lofgren said the Trump campaign misled small donors.

Former Attorney General William Barr testified he thought that if President Donald Trump believed the claims of a stolen election, he had lost touch with reality. In videotaped testimony show by the House Jan. 6 hearing on Monday, Barr said, “If he really believes this stuff, I thought he’d lost contact, or become detached from reality.” Barr said repeatedly that…

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., started Monday’s hearing on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot by introducing the former president’s false claims about the 2020 election results.

Javed Ali, former senior director of counterterrorism with the National Security Council, has spent his career trying to assess intelligence responses and identify threats before they happen. He feels the intelligence component of the January 6 story “still needs to be fleshed out” in future hearings.

Donell Harvin, the former chief of homeland security and intelligence for the District of Columbia, says there was a “vast” amount of intelligence leading up to the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. However, there was a “failure to heed the intelligence,” he said, particularly by federal authorities.