But it hasn’t just been closed-door interviews, document requests and legal showdowns. Here’s what the panel has produced so far.
Members of the committee read out messages on the House floor before sending the criminal contempt of Congress case against Meadows to the Justice Department.
Trump Jr. “‘He’s got to condemn this sh*t ASAP. The Capitol Police tweet isn’t enough,” wrote Trump Jr. in a message to Meadows, the committee’s vice chairman, Republican Rep. According to Liz Cheney of Wyoming.
Cheney elaborated that when Meadows texted back that he agreed, Trump Jr. said: “We need an Oval Office address. He has to lead now. It’s gone too far and got out of hand.” Has gone.”
People inside the Capitol, including lawmakers. The Congress member also read aloud the message that he said was sent among people inside the Meadows and Capitol premises during the attack:
- “Mr. Meadows said in a text received, ‘We’re laying siege here at the Capitol.'”
- “Another, ‘They have violated the Capitol.'”
- “In a third, ‘Hey, Mark, protesters are literally storming the Capitol. Breaking windows at doors. Running inside. Is Trump going to say anything?'”
- “Fourth, ‘There is an armed standoff at the door of the House Chamber.'”
Fox News hosts. “In fact, according to the record, many Fox News hosts knew that the president needed to act immediately,” Cheney said, “they texted Mr. Meadows, and he has changed those texts.”
- “Quote, ‘Mark, the president has to tell the people at the Capitol to go home. This is hurting all of us. He’s destroying his legacy,'” wrote Laura Ingraham.
- “Please bring him on TV. You’re destroying all you’ve got,” wrote Brian Kilmeade.
- “‘Can he make a statement? Ask people to leave the capital?’ Sean Hannity solicited.”
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Other messages from Meadows revealed by Democratic Representative Adam Schiff of California earlier this month show correspondence before and after the 2020 presidential Elections focused on keeping Trump in power.
“I heard Jeff Clarke is having an appointment on Monday. It’s amazing. It will please a lot of Patriots, and I’m personally very proud that you’re at the tip of the spear, and I can call you a friend.” I am,” read the text to Meadows.
Clark was one of the big proponents of using the department’s power to investigate baseless claims of voter fraud in the Justice Department, but he was rebuked by department leaders.
A message suggesting an ‘aggressive’ strategy. Feather November 4, 2020, the day after the election, Meadows received a message The message suggests an “aggressive strategy” for Republican-led state legislatures to “send only their voters” and let the Supreme Court decide who won the election.
elusive correspondence. Another text message from a member of Meadows outlined how the committee hasn’t gotten everything from the former White House chief of staff. The January 5 message said, “Please check your Signal,” in reference to the encrypted messaging application Signal.
amusing testimony
Capital Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonel. “The physical violence we experienced was horrific and devastating,” he said. “My fellow officers and I were punched, kicked, pushed, sprayed with chemical irritants and even blinded by eye-damaging lasers by violent mobs.”
“I was particularly shocked to see that the insurgents violently attacked us with the same American flag they claimed to protect,” he said.
DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanon He said that he was “caught, beaten, molested, all while being called a traitor to my country” and that “he was in danger of being snatched from his own gun and killed because I ‘killed him with my gun’.” ‘Dalao’ slogans were heard. I can still hear those words in my head to this day.”
Taking aim at efforts to rewrite the history of the rebellion, he said, “What makes the conflict harder and more painful is knowing so many of my fellow citizens, including so many, who have to defend I have risked my life, they are to downplay or completely deny what happened.”
DC Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges Describing the rioters as “terrorists” and comparing the crowd to a “cult”, at one point during his testimony, “the terrorists pushed through the line and engaged us in one-on-one combat.” .. one latched my face. And put his thumb in my right eye, tried to pull it out. I screamed in pain and managed to move it.”
Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, who is black, testified that rioters repeatedly targeted her with vicious racial slurs and called her the N-word.
“In the days following the attempted rebellion, other black officers shared their stories of racial abuse with me on January 6th,” he said. At one point, he recalled growing emotional and shouting, “Is this America?” As he started crying, while other officers tried to console him.
Summer blockbuster?
The panel is working toward a goal of releasing an interim report with preliminary findings by the summer, a committee aide told CNN, with a final report later next fall.
Committee members have said they hope to present more of their work in a public setting next year, which will include a hearing that outlines the story that took place on January 6. The specific timing of these hearings has not yet been set.
“We don’t have a specific date,” Democratic Representative Benny Thompson of Mississippi, chairman of the committee, told CNN earlier this month, when asked when the panel would begin public hearings. “But we will have some rolling hearings that will go well. It will be a non-traditional type of hearing.”
CNN’s Claire Foran, Jeremy Herb, Lauren Fox, Annie Grier and Ryan Nobles contributed to this report.
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