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The House’s January 6th Committee is considering rare prime-time hearings to help build a maximum audience for testimony about what happened during last year’s Capitol riot

A committee member told Axios: “Members are still discussing potential formats and timing for the committee’s hearings”.

“The Select Committee views upcoming hearings as one of its most important opportunities to lay out facts and provide answers to the American people about the January 6th attack and its causes,” the aide added.

The committee’s chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, told Bloomberg’s Billy House that hearings could open in late March or early April.

Thompson stated: “The public needs to know, needs to hear from people under oath about what led up to Jan. 6th, and to some degree, what has continued after Jan. 6.”

Fox News host Sean Hannity has become the first employee from the network to face a request for his testimony from the House select committee to investigate the Capitol riot.

Hannity is one of several Fox hosts who texted Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on the day of the Capitol riot.

Congressman Adam Schiff said on MSNBC on Tuesday that an official announcement that the committee would seek Mr Hannity’s cooperation was forthcoming.

“Yes. I think you’ll see an announcement about that very soon,” California Democrat announced.

The announcement was officially made on the committee’s social media account shortly after.

John Bowden reports.

Former President Donald Trump’s team wanted him to film TikTok videos in the run-up to Jan 6 to whip up a “Stop the Steal” frenzy, a new report claims.

The pitch was one of many outlined in a 22-page communications playbook first published by Politico.Titled the “Strategic Communications Plan,” it was authored by a group of unnamed individuals under the moniker the “Giuliani Presidential Legal Defense Team.”

The pitch quoted by Politico said: “TIKTOK*** WE have to use TIKTOK!! Content goes VIRAL here like no other platform!!!!! And there are MILLIONS of Trump supporters!” read the document. “It would be amazing if POTUS would use the platform actually – he’d have the biggest account EVER.” 

The document lists a dozen TikTok influencers and their respective follower counts, including conservative TikTok influencers ‘Conservative Barbie’ and the Republican ‘Hype House’.

Trump does not currently have a TikTok account having previously pushed to ban the video-sharing app while he was still US President.

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday will deliver a rare address on the Justice Department’s sweeping investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection, in remarks one official said will outline DOJ’s “efforts to hold accountable those responsible” for the attack on the Capitol.

As ABC News reports, Garland has increasingly found himself the subject of public scrutiny over what critics have argued is a seeming hesitance to hold accountable those like former President Donald Trump or his allies — who urged the rioters to march toward Congress almost a year ago today.

“We are doing everything we can to ensure that the perpetrators of Jan. 6 are brought to justice,” Garland said back in October. “We will follow the facts and the law where they land.”

A DOJ official told ABC News that Garland’s remarks Wednesday will similarly “not speak to specific individuals or charges,” but rather will “discuss the department’s solemn duty to uphold the Constitution, follow the facts and the law, and pursue equal justice under law without fear or favor.”

More than 700 Capitol rioters have been arrested so far, but none have been charged with planting the explosives. For now, the identity of the DC pipe bomber remains unknown.

For the past year, the FBI has been hunting down and arresting the Trump supporters who allegedly stormed the Capitol on 6 January. More than 700 people have been charged with crimes related to the Capitol riot, with some already convicted and serving prison terms.

Despite the staggering number of arrests — largely stemming from public tips to the FBI — one individual has still managed to evade the FBI’s custody.

Graig Graziosi reports on the seemingly elusive DC pipe bomber.

As the New York Times reports, The chief, J. Thomas Manger, who took over the force in July, will tell the Senate Rules Committee that the Capitol Police are already addressing 90 of the agency inspector general’s 103 recommendations, according to his written testimony.

They include streamlining intelligence operations and purchasing much needed new equipment.

“We fully understand the need to restore confidence in our ability to fulfil our mission each day, no matter the circumstances,” Chief Manger plans to tell the committee, which last month heard critiques of the agency.

“The men and women of the U.S. Capitol Police proved their mettle on Jan. 6. I take full responsibility for restoring confidence in the leadership of the department. We have accomplished a great deal, with more work to be done,” he added.

South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham is taking credit for getting former president Donald Trump to cancel his scheduled press conference on the anniversary of the Capitol Hill insurrection.

The senator said that he was among several people, including Fox News host Laura Ingraham, who urged Mr Trump to cancel the event.

Mr Graham is a close aide of the former president. He told Axios that he “discussed the subject with Mr Trump over a weekend golf match in West Palm Beach”.

Alisha Rahaman Sarkar reports:

Our US correspondent Richard Hall will be on hand to answer all your questions about the Capitol riot in an ‘Ask me Anything’ event on Wednesday, 5 January.

He will be answering live in the comments section below between 3pm and 4pm GMT (10am and 11am EST).

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When the Covid-19 pandemic forced Congress to shutter the US Capitol to most visitors and send most legislative staff home to work remotely, a core group of essential workers didn’t have that option.

Even without the hustle and bustle attendant to the thousands of tourists, lobbying groups and staff members who make their way through the labyrinthine corridors and grand lobbies of the Capitol on a normal non-pandemic day, there were still entrances to be guarded, food to be served, bills to be filed and debates to be had.

This meant that for the police, service workers, and nonpartisan staff who keep the complex running, the show had to go on. And so when it came time for Congress to meet in its quadrennial joint session to certify the presidential election results, they showed up for work. They were at their posts when a pro-Trump mob hoping to disrupt that session perpetrated what would be the worst attack on the Capitol since 1814.

Andrew Feinberg writes:

Donald Trump has canceled his press conference to commemorate the 6 January Capitol riot, which the former president planned to hold at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

Mr Trump’s change of plans comes after the special congressional committee investigating the insurrection released a series of texts from Fox News host Sean Hannity, who texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows his concerns over the violence at the Capitol and raised doubts on Mr Trump’s election fraud claims.

In one text message sent on 5 January 2021, Mr Hannity wrote that he was “very worried” about the next 48 hours. In another, sent a few days earlier, he wrote: “I do NOT see January 6 happening the way he is being told.”

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