Committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin said Sunday on “Face the Nation” that the upcoming hearing “will continue the story of Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.” CBS News will air the hearing as a Special Report starting at 1 p.m. ET. Raskin noted Sunday that the committee had so far outlined former President Trump’s lobbying campaigns on the vice president, the Justice Department, state lawmakers and local election officials ahead of Congress’ scheduled certification of the Electoral College on Jan. 6. Documentarian Nick O Quested, who was embedded in Proud Boys on 6 January, provided footage from his film to the committee, some of which was shown at the first public hearing on 9 June. “One of the things people will learn is the fundamental importance of a meeting that took place at the White House” on Dec. 18, Raskin said. A video of former President Donald Trump plays as Cassidy Hutchinson, a former top aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testifies during the sixth hearing by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Cannon attack on the US Capitol. House office building on June 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images “And that day, the team of outside lawyers who have been dubbed ‘Team Crazy’ by people in and around the White House, came to try to call for several new courses of action, including seizing voting machines across the country. Ruskin said. “And so, some of the people that were involved in that were Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani was there for part of that conversation, Michael Flynn was around for that. But against this “Team Crazy” was an internal group of lawyers who basically wanted the president. at that point to recognize that he had lost the election and was much more willing to accept the reality of his defeat at that point.” Raskin said in the middle of the night on Dec. 19, Trump sent a tweet “after a crazy meeting, a meeting that has been called the craziest meeting of the entire Trump presidency.” “Donald Trump sent the tweet that would be heard around the world, the first time in American history that a president of the United States has called for a protest against his administration, in effect, to try to stop the counting of electoral votes college. presidential election that he had lost,” Raskin said. “Absolutely unprecedented, nothing like this has ever happened before. So the world will hear the story of this tweet and then the explosive effect it had on Trump’s world and specifically among domestic violent extremist groups, the most dangerous politicians extremists in the Country.” Last week, Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone testified before the committee for more than eight hours. Raskin said Cipollone provided “valuable” information to the committee. “We’re going to use a lot of Mr. Cipollone’s testimony to corroborate other things we’ve learned along the way,” Raskin said. “He was the White House counsel at the time. He knew every major move that I think Donald Trump was making to try to swing the 2020 election and basically take over the presidency.” The Jan. 6 House committee held seven public hearings in June and July to present the evidence they gathered during the 11-month investigation. The committee has heard hundreds of hours of testimony, including some from key members of Trump’s inner circle. In addition to information about the lobbying campaigns, the committee also revealed new details about a plan Trump allies allegedly proposed to impersonate voters from several battleground states won by President Joe Biden. On June 28, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified publicly in a hastily added hearing. The blockbuster of her testimony included Trump telling the crowd at the Ellipse on Jan. 6 that he had guns and other weapons and that the former president wanted to join them on the road to the Capitol. She also said she was told Trump drove toward a Secret Service agent in a presidential vehicle. Hutchinson also testified that Meadows told her in the days leading up to Jan. 6 that, “There’s a lot going on Cass, but I don’t know, things could get really, really bad on Jan. 6.” This weekend, lawyers for Trump campaign strategist Steve Bannon, who has been charged by the Justice Department with refusing to comply with a subpoena to testify, sent a letter to the committee saying he is willing to testify publicly. Bannon cited executive privilege in his refusal to testify, but Trump sent a letter to Bannon’s lawyers waiving executive privilege. Mr. Biden rejected Trump’s claims of executive privilege, and that was upheld by the Supreme Court.
