Public hearings expected this month by the House of Representatives’ committee to investigate the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, the first of which took place at best Thursday night, are expected to focus on Sunday’s show this week. .
The committee launched a series of hearings outlining its public case against former President Trump, whom the commission says is at the center of an illegal plan to retain power that directly led to the violent uprising.
Thursday’s hearing included raw footage of the Capitol riot, excerpts from recorded interviews with former Trump officials and personal testimony from a documentary, and one of more than 150 police officers injured in the attack.
“It was something I had seen in the movies. I couldn’t believe my eyes, “Capitol Officer Caroline Edwards said in a statement. “There were officers on the ground. They were bleeding. They were vomiting. They had, I mean, I saw friends with blood on their faces. I slipped into people’s blood. I caught people falling. It was a massacre. It was chaos. I can’t, I can’t even describe what I saw. In my wildest dreams, I never thought that as a policeman, as a law enforcement officer, I would find myself in the middle of a battle.
Director Nick Questid told the committee about what he witnessed after members of the extremist group Proud Boys on January 6. Guards, it was also shared during the hearing.
Quested will appear in NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, along with committee member Elaine Luria (D-Va.). Representatives Adam Schiff (D-California) and Jamie Ruskin (D-Md.), Also members of the group, will appear in ABC’s This Week and CNN’s State of the Union, respectively.
On January 6, the commission shared comments from members of Trump’s inner circle who said they opposed the former president’s repeated false claims that election fraud cost him a second presidential victory in 2020, most notably Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump. , who was his senior adviser.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr, for example, told the commission he told Trump he had “absolutely no basis for allegations” that the election had been stolen, insisting that Trump’s ongoing campaign “does a great, great bad service to the country.” . ”
These fragments of recorded testimonies from those close to Trump were included in a long introductory statement by Commission Vice-Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.).
“All Americans must keep this in mind: on the morning of January 6, President Trump intended to remain president of the United States despite the legitimate outcome of the 2020 election and in violation of his constitutional obligation to step down,” Cheney said. said.
She took some time to warn her fellow Republicans who continued to support Trump after the Capitol attack.
“Tonight I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the defenseless: the day will come when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonesty will remain,” Cheney said.
Cheney was one of two Republican members on the Jan. 6 committee of nine. The other, Adam Kinsinger (R-Ill.), Will also appear on Sunday’s CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
Below is the full list of guests scheduled to appear on Sunday’s talk shows this week:
ABC’s This Week by Adam Schiff (D-California); Governor Ned Lamont (D-Conn.); Mark Oliva, director of public affairs at the National Sports Shooting Foundation.
NBC’s “Meet the Press” by Elaine Luria (D-Va.); directed by Nick Custed.
CBS’s “Face the Nation” – Representative Adam Kinsinger (R-Ill.); Jill Peterson and James Dansley, co-founders of The Violence Project; Mohamed El-Erian, Chief Economic Adviser at Allianz.
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CNN’s State of the Union – Representatives Jamie Ruskin (D-Md.) And Chris Jacobs (RN.Y.); former representative Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.); former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.
Fox News Sunday – Senator Chris Koons (D-Del.); Governor Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.)
Fox News Channel Sunday Morning Features – Representative Jim Jordan (Ohio); Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, author, Tragic Consequences; Adam Laxalt, Nevada Senate candidate
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