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WATCH LIVE: Jan. 6 Committee hearings - Day 3 - PBS NewsHour
Warning: This hearing may include footage of violence.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack will hold its third public hearing June 16, focused on former President Donald Trump's efforts to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence to reject Congress' official count of Electoral College votes on the day of the attack.
The hearing is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. ET on Thursday, June 16.
The vice president is charged with overseeing the Electoral College vote count -- already certified by individual states -- in a joint session of Congress following a presidential election. Trump called on Pence repeatedly to reject the results confirming President Joe Biden's win, telling supporters in a rally hours before the attack that "it will be a sad day for the country" if his vice president did not come through. Pence said in a statement after the speech he did not have the constitutional authority to do what the president asked. Some rioters began chanting "hang Mike Pence." Committee member Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said at the start of the hearings that upon hearing this, Trump said "maybe our supporters have the right idea."
The committee postponed a hearing scheduled for June 15 that was meant to focus on Trump's efforts to replace Attorney General Bill Barr, who did not support his claims of voter fraud after the election. Members of the committee said this week they thought they had evidence to indict Trump for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election, which they will lay out as part of several public hearings this month.
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The closing statement by Judge Luttig was bone-chilling, even with a 105 heat-index.
We already know that TFG and his allies are scheming for 2024. Even with my cataracts, it's crystal clear to me that they will succeed where they failed in 2020 (paraphrasing the judge) if we don't take strong action to stop and prevent such sedition.
But it wasn't available by the time I signed off last night. But it is regularly available for all hearings for those who Watch online. PBS NewsHour is great for keeping up! 
