Missed the Jan. 6 hearing? Here's 10 breakout moments, including former AG Barr calling election fraud claims 'bullshit,' and officer Caroline Edwards describing the 'carnage' and 'chaos' at the Capitol that day.
The first of two prime-time House Jan. 6 committee hearings packed a lot into two hours: video testimony from former President Donald Trump’s inner circle, including Bill Barr and Ivanka Trump; accounts from an injured Capitol police officer and other eyewitnesses on the ground; and texts between Fox News anchor Sean Hannity and Trump’s White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany the day after the riot.
Trump responded in a message posted to Truth Social after the hearing by criticizing the committee for not showing “the many positive witnesses and statements” and playing “only negative footage,” outlets like USA Today and CNBC reported. Footage shows former Attorney General Bill Barr calling Trump’s election fraud claims ‘bullshit’ A breakout moment during Thompson’s opening statement included a clip of former Attorney General Bill Barr giving a deposition where he said that he tried telling Trump that he had lost the election, and fraud claims were “bullshit.”
Ivanka Trump said she believed Barr when he said there was no evidence the 2020 election was ‘stolen’ The panel aired footage of Trump insiders, including his daughter Ivanka Trump, telling the committee that they accepted the evidence that there was no widespread election fraud. “I respect Attorney General Barr, so when he said that there was no fraud, I accepted what he said,” Ivanka Trump was shown saying in her deposition.
Top Pentagon general says Pence coordinated security response on Jan. 6 — not Trump On Jan. 6, Trump did not call the Secretary of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Guard, or his attorney general or the Department of Justice to coordinate a security response to the breach at the Capitol, Cheney said. But then-Vice President Pence did. The panel played audio of Gen.
The committee shared a new 12-minute video presentation of the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6 The committee played a roughly 12-minute video presentation of the violence that unfolded at the Capitol complex on Jan. 6.
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