The hearing could be one of the most consequential held by the panel, potentially answering the long unresolved question of whether Trump knew that far-right extremist groups would storm the Capitol.
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Judge won’t delay trial for Trump ex-adviser Steve Bannon
Bannon will be tried on contempt charges despite telling the House Jan. 6 committee late Saturday that he is now prepared to testify, which he has refused to do for months.
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4 days in January: Trump push for Capitol coda to 2020 vote
It would have been something never quite seen in America.
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Jan. 6 committee member Kinzinger reveals threatening calls over Trump investigation
The GOP lawmaker says disturbing messages targeting him, his family and his staff have escalated as the House probe reveals damaging new details about former President Donald Trump’s role in the attempted insurrection.
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Jan. 6 hearings fuel the question: Did Trump commit a crime?
Here is a look at potential crimes related to Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, and at what Congress and the Justice Department might do.
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Jan. 6 panel subpoenas former White House counsel who resisted Trump’s schemes
Pat Cipollone is said to have stridently warned against then-President Donald Trump’s efforts to try to overturn his election loss.
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Cassidy Hutchinson’s path from trusted insider to explosive witness
Several former Trump advisers said they were stunned by Hutchinson’s account on Tuesday of the Trump White House.
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Gorham man pleads guilty to participating in Capitol riot
Nicholas P. Hendrix admitted to ‘willfully and knowingly’ entering the Capitol through the Rotunda door with a crowd of rioters on the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021.
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Cassidy Hutchinson, Trump White House aide, offers revelations about Jan. 6
It was a 25-year-old staffer who perhaps put Donald Trump’s conduct into its sharpest relief during testimony before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
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Trump knew that some rioters were armed, fought to join them at Capitol, aide says
Trump demanded to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Cassidy Hutchinson testifies, and at one point he aggressively grabbed the steering wheel in the presidential limousine after he was told that it wasn’t safe to go there.