Watch Live: House Jan. 6 committee listening to anticipated to give attention to Trump’s mindset after 2020 election

Committee aides wouldn’t say whether or not they had any additional engagement with Trump or former Vice President Mike Pence about testifying. Pence stated this summer season that he’d “consider” testifying earlier than the committee.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee chair, stated final month that the committee plans to place collectively an interim report in mid-October, with a ultimate report to return earlier than the top of the 12 months, after the midterm elections.

The committee held a collection of public hearings over the summer season that have been additionally broadcast nationally. The hearings confirmed never-before-seen video from the assault but additionally confirmed video testimony from Trump administration officers about his refusal to just accept election outcomes and plans by his allies to exchange electors in battleground states that President Joe Biden received whereas additionally threatening native and state elections officers. 

Thompson confirmed over the summer season that the committee has been having “conversations” with the Justice Department in regards to the phony elector plan. In the June 21 public listening to, committee member Rep. Adam Schiff stated these pretend electors finally met on Dec. 14, 2020, in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Nevada and Wisconsin, signing paperwork claiming they have been duly elected electors from their state. 

The committee stated that GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin wished handy ship alternate, fraudulent electors to Pence forward of the joint session of Congress, based on texts the committee supplied.

The hearings highlighted Trump and his allies’ strain campaigns on totally different branches of presidency to overturn the 2020 election outcomes, together with the previous president’s try to set up environmental lawyer Jeffrey Clark on the helm of the Justice Department, legal professional John Eastman’s argument to Pence that he had the ability to override the Electoral College, and Rudy Giuliani’s makes an attempt to affect native and state elections officers.

The hearings additionally featured in-person testimony from former Trump administration officers, a former Fox News political editor, a Capitol police officer, a rioter who pleaded responsible, amongst others.

The hearings included bombshell revelations about Trump’s response to the Jan. 6 assault.

Hutchinson and different former White House aides testified – each in individual and on video testimony – that they knew Trump had misplaced the election and that pushing the narrative that he had received was a lie. Sarah Matthews, a former deputy press secretary, testified that as violence erupted on the Capitol, the press workplace was arguing over Trump’s response and appeared bowled over {that a} colleague did not wish to condemn the rioting as a result of doing so could be “handing a win to the media.”

“I couldn’t believe that we were arguing over this in the middle of the West Wing .. And so, I motioned up at the TV and said, ‘Do you think it looks like we’re f’ing winning? Because I don’t think it does,’” Matthews stated. 

In that very same listening to, the committee performed a never-before-seen video exhibiting Trump rehearsing to offer an announcement on Jan. 7, 2021. Even after the mayhem of Jan. 6 and that Congress had licensed the Electoral College rely, Trump refused to say he had misplaced the election. 

“I would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack yesterday, and to those who broke the law, you will pay,” Trump stated within the footage. “You do not represent our movement, you do not represent our country, and if you broke the law — can’t say that. I already said you will pay…”

“But this election is now over. Congress has certified the results,” he continued, earlier than stopping and presumably addressing his aides. “I don’t want to say the election’s over. I just want to say Congress has certified the results without saying the election’s over.”