The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol has over several weeks been building a case against former President Donald Trump in a series of televised hearings. The members and select committee staff have presented evidence that the Republican former president and his supporters were well aware that Trump had lost the 2020 presidential election, but pushed false election-fraud claims anyway, and in doing so helped incite the riot at the Capitol complex while Congress was meeting to certify Joe Biden’s electoral victory. Witnesses including Trump’s top advisers and family members, as well as former White House staffers, election workers and legal experts, have given some eyebrow-raising testimony.
Next Jan. 6 hearing: What time is it, where to stream it for free and what it will cover The committee is holding the last of its planned summer series of public hearings on Thursday, airing, for just a second time, during TV prime time. The hearing, slated to begin at 8 p.m. Eastern time (5 p.m. Pacific), will be streamed live online by the committee itself, including on the committee’s YouTube page, and plans to detail just what was happening inside the White House on Jan. 6 during the 187 minutes following Trump’s so-called Stop the Steal rally at the Ellipse near the White House. So if you need to brush up on what we learned during the first several sessions, here are …