Day 7: Today’s 1/6 Committee Hearing Will Focus on Extremists at the Capitol

“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” -President Donald Trump (12/19/2020)

“People are going to hear the story of that tweet, and then the explosive effect it had in Trumpworld, and specifically among the domestic violent extremist groups, the most dangerous political extremists in the country at that point.”  -Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.), CBS News’s “Face the Nation” (7/10/2022)

Day 7 of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol will take place today, Tuesday, July 12, 2022, at 1:00 pm (note the time change).

This hearing will concentrate on the extremists who were part of the January 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol and what their connection may have been to the White House.

Reps. Jamie Raskin and Stephanie Murphy will facilitate today’s line of questioning. The Committee has been laying out the timeline and story of that day’s events through the testimony of witnesses, connecting the dots that led to that dark day in American history.

Witnesses will include a former Oath Keeper, an activist in the mob that entered the Capitol on January 6, and taped testimony from former White House counsel Pat Cipollone (CBS News).

All major news and cable outlets will carry this seventh day of hearings that had impacted the fabric of America. Numerous streaming locations will also be available including the January 6 website.

Background:

-Washington Post: Next Jan. 6 hearing to focus on Donald Trump’s ‘siren call’ to violent extremist groups

-PBS: January 6 Hearing on July 12, Live with PBS NewsHour

-CBS News: How to watch Tuesday’s Jan. 6 committee hearing focused on extremists at the Capitol

-The Guardian: January 6 hearing to focus on Trump’s tweet to extremist group | US Capitol attack

-CBS News: Former Oath Keepers spokesman, Capitol rioter to testify at January 6 hearing – CBS News