‘In vivid color’: Liz Cheney says weeks of Jan. 6 hearings are coming

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‘In vivid color’: Liz Cheney says weeks of Jan. 6 hearings are coming
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Congress will hold weeks of public hearings to explain and highlight what happened on Jan. 6 and in the days leading up to the violent assault on democracy, and what former President Trump’s role in it was, the vice chair of the committee said on Thursday.

Clark “reportedly went outside normal channels of communication to deal with the White House and the former president apparently considered installing him as acting Attorney General,” Thompson said. The Senate report disclosed a Jan. 3 meeting in which top Justice Department officials warned that if Trump fired the acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen and installed Clark as in that position, there would be mass resignations across the department.

But Cheney said that the committee is still seeking to nail down the answers to questions like, “How did this plan with Mr. Clark originate? Who else was involved? And how did it progress so far?”But Clark has been among the most defiant figures the committee is seeking to hear from. The panel agreed to delay finalizing the criminal referral in a vote on the full House floor until Clark could appear in person at a deposition this coming Saturday.

If Clark is not cooperative Saturday, the contempt of Congress charge will go to a full House vote and then be sent to the Justice Department for a criminal referral. Justice Department lawyers will then decide whether to indict Clark in front of a grand jury and commence a criminal trial., the former top Trump adviser who was then indicted by a federal grand jury. Bannon’s next criminal contempt hearing is on Dec. 7.

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