Next January 6 Hearing Will Focus on Mike Pence
Trump's actions may have violated two federal criminal statutes
The next public hearing of the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection will focus on the efforts leading up to that day to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to break the law and hand his boss a second, illegal term in the White House.
That's according to the panel's Republican vice chair, Rep Liz Cheney of Wyoming.
In a video released by the select committee, Cheney explains what the American people can expect from the session scheduled for Thursday.
The committee last week kicked off a series of high-profile, public hearings last week during television primetime, which was watched by an audience of some 20 million people — an astounding figure for a congressional hearing.
“President Trump's advisors knew what he was saying was false, and they told him so, directly and repeatedly,” Cheney, one of two Republicans who agreed to be on the panel, said of the former president's repeated, false claims that the 2020 election was somehow stolen from him.
The Thursday hearing will examine Trump's “relentless effort” to pressure Pence to reject “lawful electoral votes,” she added. “As a federal judge has indicated, this likely violated two federal criminal statutes.
“President Trump had no factual basis for what he was doing, and he had been told that it was illegal,” Cheney said.
Even the Cheney clip has an air of television production to it, as she introduces clips from the select committee's trove of recorded witness statements to back her claims.
The hearing is expected to be carried live on C-SPAN and a number of broadcast and cable networks, as well as online.
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