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Jan. 6 committee to hold third hearing
- The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the US Capitol is holding its third public hearing of the month at 1 p.m. ET today.
- The hearing is expected to focus on the pressure campaign applied to former Vice President Mike Pence to stand in the way of the certification of the 2020 election. Two of Pence's former advisers will appear as witnesses.
- While the committee cannot bring legal charges against rump, its central mission has been to uncover the full scope
- The House select committee has video testimony of rioters who went inside the Capitol on Jan. 6 and who directed their anger at Pence — and believed they were acting at Donald Trump's direction, according to a person familiar with the matter.of rump's unprecedented attempt to stop the transfer of power
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Re: Jan. 6 committee to hold third hearing
GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, vice chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, opened today's hearing by taking direct aim at former President Donald rump.
"Today we're focusing on President Trump's relentless effort to pressure Mike Pence to refuse to count electoral votes on January 6," Cheney said.
She played a clip of Pence describing what happened in a speech. "President Trump said I had the right to overturn the election. President Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election," Pence said.
"What the President wanted the Vice President to do was not just wrong, it was illegal and unconstitutional," Cheney said after the video played. Cheney went on to say: "President Trump was told repeatedly that Mike Pence lacked the constitutional authority and legal authority to do what President Trump was demanding he do."
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