The confirmation comes as the committee plans to zero in on Trump’s conduct on Jan. 6, 2021, at next week’s hearing, which will focus on Trump’s response — or lack thereof — as rioters breached Capitol walls and forced legislators to leave their chambers. Select committee members accused Trump of “dereliction of duty” for failing to act as Capitol Hill came under attack – and his vice president, Mike Pence – was in danger. Next week’s hearing is the last of the committee’s eight scheduled public hearings, as the panel has tried at each meeting to connect Trump to the deadly attack that unfolded on Jan. 6. “There will be a lot more information, a lot more clarity about the details of the things that happened that day, the people who worked in the White House, who worked around the President and even people who advised him to do things. actions that he did not take based on their reasoned advice,” Virginia Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria, who will help lead the next hearing, told CNN this week. “I see it as a dereliction of duty. He didn’t act. He didn’t take action to stop the violence.” New details continue to emerge about Trump’s efforts to reverse his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden. On Saturday, the New York Times reported that a little-known conservative lawyer, William Olson, spoke to Trump in December 2020 about efforts to enlist the Justice Department to sign a US Supreme Court lawsuit to overturn the results of the presidential election. elections. according to a memo written by Olson documenting the call. Olson urged Trump to replace his then-attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen, if Rosen did not approve the Supreme Court action, according to the memo. Olson also encouraged Trump to replace lawyers in the White House counsel’s office and take action on the election that would effectively amount to “martial law.”
A prime time audition next week
The commission announced Friday that it will hold the hearing on Thursday, July 21 at 8 p.m. ET — the panel’s second session in prime time to try to maximize viewership and attention. The committee has not said who will testify at next week’s hearing, although CNN previously reported that former Trump White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews is expected to testify. The committee is also likely to rely heavily on video from the testimony of Pat Cipollone, a former adviser to Trump in the White House. Cipollone sat for a taped interview just last week, and the committee used excerpts from the interview 14 times during Tuesday’s hearing, including playing a video of Cipollone discussing Trump’s Jan. 6 response to wrap up its hearing. next week. While next week is the last scheduled for this summer’s Jan. 6 series of public hearings, the select committee has said it is not done with its investigation. Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, one of two Republicans on the committee, told the Wall Street Journal in an interview this week that the committee is still considering asking Trump to testify and may seek a written response from Pence or issue a subpoena to testify. .
The investigations surrounding Trump are swirling
The Jan. 6 panel is just one of Trump’s potential investigative concerns, even as he considers moving forward with a 2024 presidential campaign announcement. In Georgia, the Fulton County District Attorney has issued subpoenas for Trump allies to testify before a grand jury investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, is seeking to quash a subpoena for his testimony related to at least two calls Graham made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his staff after the election. In New York, Trump and his children Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump are set to be impeached after losing court battles to avoid testifying in the state attorney general’s political investigation into the Trump Organization. The depositions were scheduled to begin next week, but were temporarily delayed due to the death of Trump’s first wife, Ivana Trump. And in Washington, DC, efforts by former Trump adviser Steve Bannon to delay his trial for contempt of Congress were rejected this week by a federal judge, and the trial is scheduled to begin next week.
The deleted secret service texts raise new questions
There are also new questions that have arisen about the Secret Service and Jan. 6, amid a flurry of new questions about the agency’s deletion of text messages on Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, shortly after they were requested by oversight officials. The Homeland Security inspector general sent a letter to the House and Senate Homeland Security committees notifying them that the messages had been deleted “as part of a device replacement program” after the watchdog had requested electronic communications from the Secret Service. The House Homeland Security Committee is chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, who also chairs the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6. DHS Inspector General Joseph Koufari met with the House select committee behind closed doors on Friday, briefing committee members on the deleted text messages. Thompson told CNN after the meeting that Cuffari said the Secret Service was not fully cooperative. He added that the commission would work “to try to ascertain whether these texts can be resurrected.” According to a source familiar with the briefing, the inspector general told the committee that the Secret Service did not conduct its own review after the Jan. 6 action and chose to rely on the inspector general’s investigation. “We’ve had limited engagement with the Secret Service. We’re going to follow up with some additional engagement now that we’ve met with the IG,” Thompson said. The Secret Service responded in a statement Thursday saying “suggestions that the Secret Service deleted malicious text messages upon request are false.” “In fact, the Secret Service is cooperating fully with the OIG in every way — whether it’s interviews, documents, emails or messages,” the agency said. Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat on the Select Committee, said there appeared to be “contradictory statements” between the inspector general and the Secret Service about whether the text messages had indeed disappeared.
Explosive testimony confirmed
The Secret Service’s Jan. 6 response was already under scrutiny in light of public testimony earlier this month from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who recounted unusual details about Trump’s angry exchange with the Secret Service on January 6. . In her public testimony, Hutchinson said that then-Deputy White House Chief of Staff Tony Ornato — who previously worked for the Secret Service and then returned to the agency in 2021 — told her on Jan. 6 that the Trump was so furious with a Secret Service detail that prevented him from going to Capitol Hill after his Ellipse speech that he “reached over the front of the vehicle to grab the steering wheel.” Hutchinson said Ornato told her Trump “then used his free hand to fly toward Secret Service Agent Robert Engel. Hutchinson testified that Ornato told her the story in front of Engel and that Engel did not dispute the account. Trump and his allies sought to challenge Hutchinson’s account — which included many additional damning details about Trump’s behavior. After Hutchinson testified, a Secret Service official who would not say Engel would deny parts of the story and that the agents involved would testify publicly about it, though they have not returned to the committee to testify. Neither Engel nor Ornato have commented publicly. But additional corroboration of Hutchinson’s account has emerged since her testimony. CNN reported earlier this month that two Secret Service sources said they overheard Trump angrily asking to go to Capitol Hill and scolding his figures when he couldn’t make it. The sources told CNN that stories about the incident circulated after Jan. 6 that included details similar to those described by Hutchinson. Additionally, CNN reported Thursday that a Metropolitan Police officer confirmed details of Hutchinson’s account and recounted what they saw to the commission’s investigators. This story has been updated with additional developments on Saturday. CNN’s Zachary Cohen, Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer, Jamie Gangel and Whitney Wild contributed to this report.
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The confirmation comes as the committee plans to zero in on Trump’s conduct on Jan. 6, 2021, at next week’s hearing, which will focus on Trump’s response — or lack thereof — as rioters breached Capitol walls and forced legislators to leave their chambers. Select committee members accused Trump of “dereliction of duty” for failing to act as Capitol Hill came under attack – and his vice president, Mike Pence – was in danger. Next week’s hearing is the last of the committee’s eight scheduled public hearings, as the panel has tried at each meeting to connect Trump to the deadly attack that unfolded on Jan. 6. “There will be a lot more information, a lot more clarity about the details of the things that happened that day, the people who worked in the White House, who worked around the President and even people who advised him to do things. actions that he did not take based on their reasoned advice,” Virginia Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria, who will help lead the next hearing, told CNN this week. “I see it as a dereliction of duty. He didn’t act. He didn’t take action to stop the violence.” New details continue to emerge about Trump’s efforts to reverse his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden. On Saturday, the New York Times reported that a little-known conservative lawyer, William Olson, spoke to Trump in December 2020 about efforts to enlist the Justice Department to sign a US Supreme Court lawsuit to overturn the results of the presidential election. elections. according to a memo written by Olson documenting the call. Olson urged Trump to replace his then-attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen, if Rosen did not approve the Supreme Court action, according to the memo. Olson also encouraged Trump to replace lawyers in the White House counsel’s office and take action on the election that would effectively amount to “martial law.” The Justice Department’s investigation has also expanded, issuing numerous subpoenas in recent weeks and seeking information in all seven battleground states where the Trump campaign called fake voters as part of an effort to subvert the Electoral College. In addition to the riot charge, the department asked questions about the organization of rallies that preceded the attack, searched the cellphone of a Trump campaign lawyer and the home of a former Justice Department official, and continued grand jury action around extremist groups. . He comes closer to the political circles around Trump. While the Justice Department’s investigation has appeared to lag somewhat behind the House committee’s work, and while the two investigations have operated largely separate and apart from each other, they have also begun to intersect.
A prime time audition next week
The commission announced Friday that it will hold the hearing on Thursday, July 21 at 8 p.m. ET — the panel’s second session in prime time to try to maximize viewership and attention. The committee has not said who will testify at next week’s hearing, although CNN previously reported that former Trump White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews is expected to testify. The committee is also likely to rely heavily on video from the testimony of Pat Cipollone, a former adviser to Trump in the White House. Cipollone sat for a taped interview just last week, and the committee used excerpts from the interview 14 times during Tuesday’s hearing, including playing a video of Cipollone discussing Trump’s Jan. 6 response to wrap up its hearing. next week. While next week is the last scheduled for this summer’s Jan. 6 series of public hearings, the select committee has said it is not done with its investigation. Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, one of two Republicans on the committee, told the Wall Street Journal in an interview this week that the committee is still considering asking Trump to testify and may seek a written response from Pence or issue a subpoena to testify. .
The investigations surrounding Trump are swirling
The Jan. 6 panel is just one of Trump’s potential investigative concerns, even as he considers moving forward with a 2024 presidential campaign announcement. In Georgia, the Fulton County District Attorney has issued subpoenas for Trump allies to testify before a grand jury investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, is seeking to quash a subpoena for his testimony related to at least two calls Graham made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his staff after the election. In New York, Trump and his children Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump are set to be impeached after losing court battles to avoid testifying in the state attorney general’s political investigation into the Trump Organization. The depositions were scheduled to begin next week, but were temporarily delayed due to the death of Trump’s first wife, Ivana Trump. And in Washington, DC, efforts by former Trump adviser Steve Bannon to delay his trial for contempt of Congress were rejected this week by a federal judge, and the trial is scheduled to begin next week.
The deleted secret service texts raise new questions
There are also new questions that have arisen about the Secret Service and Jan. 6, amid a flurry of new questions about the agency’s deletion of text messages on Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, shortly after they were requested by oversight officials. The Homeland Security inspector general sent a letter to the House and Senate Homeland Security committees notifying them that the messages had been deleted “as part of a device replacement program” after the watchdog had requested electronic communications from the Secret Service. The House Homeland Security Committee is chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, who also chairs the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6. DHS Inspector General Joseph Koufari met with the House select committee behind closed doors on Friday, briefing committee members on the deleted text messages. Thompson told CNN after the meeting that Cuffari said the Secret Service was not fully cooperative. He added that the commission would work “to try to ascertain whether these texts can be resurrected.” According to a source familiar with the briefing, the inspector general told the committee that the Secret Service did not conduct its own review after the Jan. 6 action and chose to rely on the inspector general’s investigation. “We’ve had limited engagement with the Secret Service. We’re going to follow up with some additional engagement now that we’ve met with the IG,” Thompson said. The Secret Service responded in a statement Thursday saying “suggestions that the Secret Service deleted malicious text messages upon request are false.” “In fact, the Secret Service is cooperating fully with the OIG in every way — whether it’s interviews, documents, emails or messages,” the agency said. Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat on the Select Committee, said there appeared to be “contradictory statements” between the inspector general and the Secret Service about whether the text messages had indeed disappeared.
Explosive testimony confirmed
The Secret Service’s Jan. 6 response was already under scrutiny in light of public testimony earlier this month from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who recounted unusual details about Trump’s angry exchange with the Secret Service on January 6. . In her public testimony, Hutchinson said that then-Deputy White House Chief of Staff Tony Ornato — who previously worked for the Secret Service and then returned to the agency in 2021 — told her on Jan. 6 that the Trump was so furious with a Secret Service detail that prevented him from going to Capitol Hill after his Ellipse speech that he “reached over the front of the vehicle to grab the steering wheel.” Hutchinson said Ornato told her Trump “then used his free hand to fly toward Secret Service Agent Robert Engel. Hutchinson testified that Ornato told her the story in front of Engel and that Engel did not dispute the account. Trump and his allies sought to challenge Hutchinson’s account — which included many additional damning details about Trump’s behavior. After Hutchinson testified, a Secret Service official who would not say Engel would deny parts of the story and that the agents involved would testify publicly about it, though they have not returned to the committee to testify. Neither Engel nor Ornato have commented publicly. But additional corroboration of Hutchinson’s account has emerged since her testimony. CNN reported earlier this month that two Secret Service sources said they overheard Trump angrily asking to go to Capitol Hill and scolding his figures when he couldn’t make it. The sources told CNN that stories about the incident circulated after Jan. 6 that included details similar to those described by Hutchinson. Additionally, CNN reported Thursday that a Metropolitan Police officer confirmed details of Hutchinson’s account and recounted what they saw to the commission’s investigators. This story has been updated with additional developments on Saturday. CNN’s Zachary Cohen, Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer, Jamie Gangel and Whitney Wild contributed to this report.
