WASHINGTON – Tuesday’s hearing of the House select committee investigating January 6 attack A pro-Trump mob on Capitol Hill is expected to highlight the role domestic extremists played that day.
Committee member Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “the focus of this hearing will be on domestic violent extremists, as well as members of Congress and people whom the president called in to help him in this pressure campaign”.
During its opening hearing last month, the committee shared some of the evidence it has gathered about the alleged planning that the leaders of two groups, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, participated in the day before the attack on the US Capitol..
The White House lawyer for former President Donald Trump Pat Cipollone’s testimony from Friday It will be presented at the next hearing.
Cipollone was a much sought after witness, especially after the bomb testimony that he tried to prevent Donald Trump from challenging the 2020 election results and worked to prevent the defeated president from joining the violent mob that besieged Capitol Hill, the committee said.
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Cipollone’s testimony does not contradict what other witnesses have said, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., he said Friday on CNN.
Committee member Lofgren clarified that “not contradicting is not the same as confirming.” In some cases, the former White House lawyer was not present at the events described or “did not accurately recall” details.
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Another committee member, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that the public will learn of a meeting on Dec. 18, 2020, where former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, Trump attorney Sydney Powell and others spoke about using the military to take over voting machines.
“That day, the group of outside lawyers who have been (described as) The ‘Team Crazy’ of people in and around the White House came to try to urge various new courses of action, including the seizure of voting machines across the country,” Raskin said.
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Trump discussed with his advisers the possibility of appointing Powell to investigate allegations of voter fraud and possibly seize voting machines that he claimed were rigged against him.
During the first six public hearings, the Jan. 6 committee sought to show that the president oversaw and coordinated “a sophisticated seven-part plan to nullify the presidential election and prevent the transfer of power,” said Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming. . he said during the first hearing.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Jan 6 – Tuesday hearing to examine role of Oath Keepers, Proud Boys