Jan. 6 insurrection hearings start Thursday: Here's what to know

the question is on the motion to favorably report to the House. Those in favor say, aye, aye, we must stop this deal and then we must ensure that such outrageous election fraud never happens again, can never be allowed to happen again. You know, biden won the election, There is no evidence anywhere that there was widespread fraud that could have overturned that result. Nonetheless trump has continued to say that he won and that biden is not *** legitimate president and there are *** large chunk of people um who are supportive of trump, who still believe that. And so that is part of the reason that this committee really wants to, they're doing this hearing on thursday and prime time because they want to try to get attention. We know the basics of what happened on that day, It was on tv, it unfolded on television. Um, but there's *** lot of things behind the scenes that we still don't know. And the biggest question that they've been focused on is what trump was doing during the riot and what he might have known about people who were coming to town, any links between the White House and the rioters and especially, you know, what he was doing in those minutes and hours that the insurrection unfolded. But even as people were breaking into the building trump was still tweeting, trying to get Pence to do what he wanted him to do, which was to try and overturn the legitimate election of joe biden. There's *** domestic extremism component that we're expecting to see in one of the hearings with *** lot of the far right groups like the oath keepers and the proud boys who were organizing to *** large extent before the interactions. So I think we're going to see just sort of all of those different factors. *** lot of the unanswered questions about exactly how it went down with their stated goal of getting that out there for history, um, and having done the most comprehensive investigation possible. So it doesn't happen again for any one community, anyone city or anyone agency. We follow the facts and the law wherever they lead. Um, and that's all I can say about the investigation.

Nearly a year since its inception, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will go public with its findings starting this week as lawmakers hope to show the American public how democracy came to the brink of disaster.The series of hearings that will take place over the next several weeks begin with a prime-time session Thursday night in which the nine-member panel plans to give an overview of its 11-month investigation. More than 1,000 people have been interviewed by the panel, and only snippets of that testimony have been revealed to the public, mostly through court filings.What you need to know ahead of the hearing: When will the hearing take place?The first of six hearings is set to go live at 8 p.m. EDT on Thursday. It will take place in a large House office building in the U.S. Capitol complex. Lawmakers plan to have witnesses testify and to display a series of never-before-seen images and exhibits relating to the lead-up to the insurrection and the attack itself.Who is expected to testify? British filmmaker Nick Quested, who recorded members of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group as they stormed the building, and Caroline Edwards, a U.S. Capitol Police officer who was seriously injured in the attack, will be among the witnesses.The public hearing, unlike other committee hearings, will be a mixture of traditional testimony as well as a multimedia presentation.In subsequent hearings, the committee has reached out to a group of Trump-era Justice Department officials, including Jeffrey Rosen, the acting attorney general at the time of the riot, about having them as witnesses, according to a person familiar with the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss private conversations. What will the hearing entail?The first hearing is expected to be a table-setter for the rest of the subsequent hearings. The committee, comprised of seven Democrats and two Republicans, plans to lay out several areas of information it has gathered throughout its investigation. Lawmakers are also expected to focus part of the first hearing on far-right extremists who broke into the building that day.The panel's probe has so far been divided into a series of focus areas, including the efforts by former President Trump and his allies to cast doubt on the election and halt the certification of President Joe Biden's victory; the financing and organizing of rallies in Washington that took place before the attack; security failures by Capitol Police and federal agencies; and the actions of the rioters themselves. Will there be new details about the insurrection?Several members of the committee have promised new and explosive information to arise from the public hearings, but it remains unclear what that will entail.The hearings are expected to be exhaustive but not the final word from the committee. It plans to release subsequent reports on its findings, including recommendations on legislative reforms, ahead of the midterm elections.

The series of hearings that will take place over the next several weeks begin with a prime-time session Thursday night in which the nine-member panel plans to give an overview of its 11-month investigation. More than 1,000 people have been interviewed by the panel, and only snippets of that testimony have been revealed to the public, mostly through court filings.

What you need to know ahead of the hearing:

When will the hearing take place?

The first of six hearings is set to go live at 8 p.m. EDT on Thursday. It will take place in a large House office building in the U.S. Capitol complex. Lawmakers plan to have witnesses testify and to display a series of never-before-seen images and exhibits relating to the lead-up to the insurrection and the attack itself.

Who is expected to testify?

British filmmaker Nick Quested, who recorded members of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group as they stormed the building, and Caroline Edwards, a U.S. Capitol Police officer who was seriously injured in the attack, will be among the witnesses.

The public hearing, unlike other committee hearings, will be a mixture of traditional testimony as well as a multimedia presentation.

In subsequent hearings, the committee has reached out to a group of Trump-era Justice Department officials, including Jeffrey Rosen, the acting attorney general at the time of the riot, about having them as witnesses, according to a person familiar with the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss private conversations.

What will the hearing entail?

The first hearing is expected to be a table-setter for the rest of the subsequent hearings. The committee, comprised of seven Democrats and two Republicans, plans to lay out several areas of information it has gathered throughout its investigation. Lawmakers are also expected to focus part of the first hearing on far-right extremists who broke into the building that day.

The panel's probe has so far been divided into a series of focus areas, including the efforts by former President Trump and his allies to cast doubt on the election and halt the certification of President Joe Biden's victory; the financing and organizing of rallies in Washington that took place before the attack; security failures by Capitol Police and federal agencies; and the actions of the rioters themselves.

Will there be new details about the insurrection?

Several members of the committee have promised new and explosive information to arise from the public hearings, but it remains unclear what that will entail.

The hearings are expected to be exhaustive but not the final word from the committee. It plans to release subsequent reports on its findings, including recommendations on legislative reforms, ahead of the midterm elections.