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News Articles: Jan. 6 committee

Former Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt spoke to NPR minutes after testifying Monday to the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. "Television ... really damaged the capacity of Americans to be good citizens in a republic because they confused the TV show with the real thing," Stirewalt told NPR.

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  • Politics

Fired Fox News politics editor: Trump's ire at election night call led to 'panic'

In an interview with NPR, former Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt says that network should have been proud of being first to project that Joe Biden would win Arizona.

June 14, 2022
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By:
  • David Folkenflik
Former U.S. Attorney BJay Pak testified in front of a U.S. House committee investigating the 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol.

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  • News

Georgia's Pak testifies about false claims of fraud to Jan. 6 congressional committee

Former U.S. Attorney BJay Pak investigated claims about voter fraud in Georgia and found they were false.

June 13, 2022
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
Fox News personalities adorn the front of the News Corporation building in 2019 in New York City.

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  • Politics

Only one major cable news channel did not carry the Jan. 6 hearing live: Fox News

Airing the hearing would have required Fox to broadcast flat contradictions of what its personalities have told their audience in the past year and a half: that the riot was a mere legal protest.

June 11, 2022
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By:
  • David Folkenflik
U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards testifies during a hearing by the select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack on Thursday in Washington.

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  • Politics

A Capitol Police officer injured on Jan. 6 recalls the chaos and carnage

"It was carnage, it was chaos. I can't even describe what I saw," says U.S. Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards.

June 10, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Ivanka Trump's testimony to the Jan. 6 committee is displayed on a screen during the committee's hearing on Thursday.

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  • Politics

New revelations and 3 other takeaways from the first Jan. 6 committee hearing

The committee transported the audience back to Jan. 6 with video of what happened that day. It also made a strong case that former President Donald Trump was responsible for what happened.

June 10, 2022
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By:
  • Domenico Montanaro
Liz Cheney, vice chair of the select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, delivers opening remarks during a hearing on Thursday in Washington.

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  • Politics

Liz Cheney offers a stark message to the GOP members who continue to support Trump

"Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain," Cheney says.

June 10, 2022
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards testifies before the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol with Sandra Garza, partner of Brian Sicknick, and U.S. Capitol Police Officer Sgt. Aquilino Gonell in the back, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 9, 2022. Photo by Jonathan Ernst/REUTERS

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  • News

'It was carnage.' Capitol officer, a Georgia native, describes Jan. 6 during public hearing

Georgia-born U.S. Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards describes what she witnessed during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. 

June 10, 2022
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By:
  • Riley Bunch
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger talks with supporters during an election night party on May 24, 2022, at a restaurant in Peachtree Corners, Ga.

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  • Elections

Raffensperger, Sterling set to testify in Jan. 6 public hearings

Georgia's elections played a central role in the events before, during and after the U.S. Capitol insurrection.

June 09, 2022
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
President Trump: asset-mezzanine-16x9

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Emails warned fake Trump electors to act in secrecy; Impact of Black voting bloc

Tuesday on Political Rewind: A new set of emails shows false Trump electors were encouraged to operate in complete secrecy in 2020. In a speech, Gov. Brian Kemp said he supports no new additional gun laws in the wake of the Uvalde massacre. Plus, we'll look at highlights from the runoff debates.

June 07, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 2 more
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., joined at right by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on July 27, 2021. The House select committee on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has issued subpoenas for both lawmakers, as well as other House Republicans.

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  • Politics

In an unprecedented move, the Jan. 6 panel subpoenas McCarthy and other Republicans

There is little history of a congressional committee issuing subpoenas for members of Congress. The move escalates the war between House Republicans opposed to the investigation and the panel.

May 12, 2022
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By:
  • Claudia Grisales
Then-White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Dan Scavino delivers a recorded address for the Republican National Convention on Aug. 26, 2020, in the empty Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C.

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  • Politics

House approves criminal contempt referrals for 2 Trump aides over the Jan. 6 attack

The House voted to hold former Trump White House advisers Dan Scavino Jr. and Peter Navarro in contempt of Congress and refer the matter to the Justice Department for possible prosecution

April 06, 2022
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By:
  • Claudia Grisales
Jared Kushner is seen here talking with Israel's opposition leader and ex-premier Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with his wife Ivanka Trump at the Knesset in Jerusalem on Oct. 11, 2021. Kushner, a senior adviser to former President Trump, appeared before the House Jan. 6 select committee on March 31, 2022.

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  • Politics

Jared Kushner provided 'helpful' details to the Jan. 6 committee, a panel member says

Donald Trump's son-in-law and a former senior White House adviser substantiated information and provided his own take on different reports on the Jan. 6 attack, Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria said.

April 01, 2022
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By:
  • Claudia Grisales and
  • Deirdre Walsh
Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.

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  • Politics

Jan. 6 committee chairman to recommend inviting Ginni Thomas to appear

"It appears that Mrs. Thomas has information relevant to our investigation," the panel said after reports that she had exchanged text messages with Trump's chief of staff ahead of the Capitol attack.

March 28, 2022
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By:
  • Claudia Grisales
The White House in the background, President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection is asking Ivanka Trump, daughter of former President Donald Trump, to voluntarily cooperate with its investigation.

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  • News

Jan. 6 committee subpoenas fake Trump electors in 7 states

The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection has subpoenaed more than a dozen individuals which it says falsely tried to declare Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 election. The panel is demanding information and testimony from the 14 people who the panel says met and submitted false Electoral College certificates from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

January 28, 2022
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By:
  • Associated Press
After serving as the lead manager for the ultimately unsuccessful second Trump impeachment, Rep. Jamie Raskin became a member of the House select committee looking into the Jan. 6 attacks.

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  • Politics

After his son's suicide and the Jan. 6 attack, Rep. Jamie Raskin is not giving up

Raskin's son died just days before the Capitol insurrection. Now Raskin serves on the House select committee charged with investigating the Jan. 6 attack. His new memoir is Unthinkable.

January 04, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
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