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January 6 committee: These questions still need answering
The House select commiittee investigating last year's attack on the US Capitol holds its final meeting on Monday, December 19.
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Men who defended the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, attend Monday's public meeting. From right ar Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, former Metropolitan Police Department officer Michael Fanone, Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges and Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell.
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A screen above the committee reads "Trump knew he lost" as the panel summarizes its various findings on Monday.
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US Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee's chairman, speaks at Monday's meeting. "I believe nearly two years later, this is still a time of reflection and reckoning," he said. "If we are to survive as a nation of laws and democracy, this can never happen again."
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The committee held 10 public hearings over the past few months.
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Gonell and Hodges, who were both injured defending the US Capitol, attend the committee's public hearing on October 13.
A video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is played during the hearing on October 13. The committee aired previously unseen footage from Fort McNair, the DC-area Army base where congressional leaders took refuge during the insurrection and scrambled to respond to the unfolding crisis.
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Committee members listen to testimony on October 13.
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From left, Hodges, Gonell and Dunn watch the hearing on October 13.
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The committee plays a video of Roger Stone, a longtime Republican operative and ally of Trump. The day before the 2020 election, Stone said in front of a documentary film crew that he had no interest in waiting to tally actual votes before contesting the election results. "F**k the voting, let's get right to the violence," Stone could be heard saying, according to footage provided by a Danish documentary film crew and obtained by CNN.
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US Rep. Zoe Lofgren, one of the committee members, speaks during proceedings on October 13. The committee revealed new evidence that Trump had a premeditated plan to declare victory no matter what the election results were. "The evidence shows that his false victory speech was planned well in advance, before any votes had been counted," Lofgren said.
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Thompson arrives with other committee members on October 13.
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Thompson talks to reporters prior to the October 13 hearing.
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Previously unseen footage of then-President Trump rehearsing a video message is shown over the committee during its public hearing on July 21. During outtakes of the message, recorded on January 7, 2021, Trump struggled to condemn the violence at the US Capitol and refused to say "the election is over."
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US Rep. Elaine Luria speaks during the hearing on July 21. She and Rep. Adam Kinzinger were the committee members leading the hearing that day. "What you will learn is that President Trump sat in his dining room and watched the attack on television while his senior-most staff, closest advisers, and family members begged him to do what is expected of any American president," she said.
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Members of the press cover the hearing on July 21.
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Former White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews watches as former deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger testifies during the July 21 hearing. Pottinger served on Trump's National Security Council before resigning in the immediate aftermath of the January 6 attack. In his testimony, he said that Trump's tweet calling Vice President Mike Pence a "coward" essentially was "fuel being poured on the fire" the day of the insurrection. "I was disturbed and worried to see that the President was attacking Vice President Pence for doing his constitutional duty," Pottinger said.
Thompson appears remotely as he delivers opening remarks at the July 21 hearing. He was not able to attend in person because he had Covid-19.
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Matthews and Pottinger arrive to provide testimony at the July 21 hearing.
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Members of the press prepare to cover the July 21 hearing.
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Kinzinger speaks during the hearing on July 21. "Almost everybody wanted President Trump to instruct the mob to disperse," he said. "President Trump refused."
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Cheney swears in Matthews and Pottinger on July 21.
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US Rep. Jamie Raskin, one of the committee members, rides in an elevator before the hearing on July 21.
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Footage from last year's US Capitol attack is seen on July 21.
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Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell speaks to members of the press before the July 21 hearing. Gonell was one of the officers who defended the Capitol on the day of the attack.
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Jason Van Tatenhove, a former spokesperson and self-described "propagandist" for the Oath Keepers, appears for testimony during the public hearing on July 12. He said he is worried that if Trump runs again in 2024, he will try to "whip up a civil war amongst his followers using lies and deceit." Van Tatenhove said: "What else is (Trump) going to do if he gets elected again? All bets are off at that point."
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Recorded testimony of former White House counsel Pat Cipollone is shown over the House select committee during its hearing on July 12. In the video footage, Cipollone said he agreed with other Trump officials that there was not sufficient evidence of election fraud.
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Stephen Ayres, second from left, shakes hands with Gonell after giving testimony to the committee. Ayres was one of the Capitol rioters on January 6. Gonell was one of the officers who defended the Capitol that day, and we learned that the injuries he suffered in the attack are forcing him to quit policing.
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People inside the hearing room listen to the proceedings on July 12.
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Raskin speaks during the July 12 hearing. Raskin and Rep. Stephanie Murphy were the committee members leading the hearing.
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Name placards for Van Tatenhove and Ayres are prepared before their testimony on July 12.
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Gonell listens as Raskin talks about the injuries Gonell suffered while defending the Capitol on January 6.
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Ayres, who in June pleaded guilty to entering the Capitol illegally, arrives to testify on July 12. Ayres said in his testimony that he believed that Trump would be marching to the Capitol with his supporters on January 6: "I think everybody thought he would be coming down. He said in his speech ... it was kind of like he was going to be there with us. ... I believed it."
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The committee is seated on July 12.
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Cassidy Hutchinson, who was once an aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, is sworn in to testify during a hearing on June 28. In her testimony, Hutchinson revealed how President Trump and his inner circle were warned about the potential for violence on January 6, and she said Trump wanted to join his supporters at the US Capitol.
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Video of Trump is displayed on a screen during the hearing on June 28.
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Raskin holds his notes while speaking to journalists on June 28.
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A note written by Hutchinson on January 6, 2021, is displayed during the hearing on June 28.
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Photographers document the hearing on June 28.
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Hutchinson testifies on June 28.
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Chairman Thompson listens to Hutchinson's testimony on June 28.
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Hutchinson walks back into the hearing room after a break in the proceedings.
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Journalists watch the June 23 hearing on a laptop outside the hearing room.
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Kinzinger speaks during the committee hearing on June 23.
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Former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen testifies during the hearing on June 23. During his testimony, Rosen said he told then-President Trump that he would not allow the Justice Department to do anything that would give validity to false claims of election fraud.
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Members of the committee listen to testimony on June 23.
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Rosen is displayed on a monitor while testifying on June 23.
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Steven Engel, former assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, looks on during the June 23 hearing. Engel testified that there had been no legal basis to appoint a Justice Department special counsel to investigate voter fraud in 2020, even though Trump demanded it.
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From left, Rosen and former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue prepare to testify on June 23.
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From left, former Metropolitan Police Department officer Michael Fanone and actor Sean Penn attend the hearing on June 23. Penn, who has been following the committee hearings, told reporters, "I'm just here to observe, just another citizen."
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Handwritten notes from Donoghue are shown on a screen during the June 23 hearing. Donoghue said he had taken the notes during a 90-minute conversation with Trump after Trump made a fraud allegation he "had not heard" before.
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Thompson swears in witnesses at the public hearing on June 21. The witnesses, from left, are Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and Georgia elections official Gabriel Sterling.
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Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, a former Georgia election worker, wipes her eyes as she testifies on June 21. She told the committee about "hateful" and "racist" threats she received via Facebook.
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Bowers is hugged by Cheney after his testimony on June 21. Bowers, a Republican, defied a scheme to overturn the election results in his state, and he gave emotional testimony about the impact that had. He described "disturbing" protests outside his home, and he read a passage from his personal journal about friends who had turned on him.
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Moss introduces her mother, Ruby Freeman, before testifying on June 21. Freeman is also a former elections worker, and her video testimony was played during the hearing. She said she and her daughter were targeted by Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
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Video of Trump is seen over the committee during the hearing on June 21.
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Raffensperger watches Bowers testify on June 21.
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From left, former Metropolitan Police Department officer Michael Fanone, Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges and Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn attend the hearing on June 21. They helped defend the Capitol during the attack.
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Members of the media work in the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building outside the hearing on June 21.
Bowers delivers testimony on June 21. He said that Giuliani told him he had evidence of widespread voter fraud but "never" provided it. Bowers also said that Giuliani requested him to remove electors of President Joe Biden and replace them. "You are asking me to do something against my oath, and I will not break my oath," Bowers said he told Giuliani.
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From left, Bowers, Raffensperger and Sterling arrive for the hearing on June 21.
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Audio of Giuliani is played during the hearing on June 21.
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Thompson arrives ahead of the hearing on June 21.
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A photo of then-Vice President Mike Pence is displayed over the committee during a hearing on June 16. In the photo, Pence is speaking on the phone from a secure location during the January 6 riot. Pence did not want to be seen as fleeing the Capitol, according to testimony provided to the committee by advisers and aides who were working for him at the time.
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US Reps. Cheney and Pete Aguilar listen to testimony on June 16. Much of Thursday's presentation was led by Aguilar, a Democrat from Southern California.
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J. Michael Luttig, a retired judge and informal adviser to Pence, testifies to the committee on June 16. He testified that Trump attorney John Eastman's claims — that the vice president could have decided the outcome of the election at the joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021 — are not supported by the Constitution and do not follow any historical precedent.
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A video of Trump is played during the hearing on June 16.
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John Wood, senior investigative counsel for the January 6 committee, questions witnesses on June 16.
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Luttig leaves the hearing room during a break in the June 16 hearing.
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Testimony from Greg Jacob, former counsel to Pence, is seen on a screen as he speaks on June 16. Jacob told the committee that Pence's legal team reviewed every election in American history as they examined whether a sitting vice president had the authority to reject Electoral College votes. "No vice president in 230 years of history had ever claimed to have that kind of authority," Jacob said.
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Thompson swears in two former Pence advisers during the committee's hearing on June 16.
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Cheney walks to the dais for the June 16 hearing.
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Photojournalists gather at the start of the hearing on June 16.
Lofgren delivers remarks during the committee's hearing on June 13.
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The committee listens to a video clip of former Attorney General Bill Barr during the hearing on June 13. In his closed-door deposition. Barr provided the committee with a detailed, point-by-point rebuttal of Trump's false claims about the 2020 election.
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Cheney and Kinzinger are the two Republicans on the nine-member committee.
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From left, conservative election attorney Benjamin Ginsberg, former US attorney BJay Pak and former Philadelphia city commissioner Al Schmidt are sworn in to testify on June 13. They all said it was clear Biden won the 2020 election and that Trump's claims of fraud were not factual.
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Chris Stirewalt, a former Fox digital politics editor, testifies during the June 13 hearing. He discussed the "controversial" decision to call the state of Arizona for Biden during the 2020 presidential election. "Well, it was really controversial to our competitors who we beat so badly by making the correct call first," Stirewalt told the committee during his testimony. He said that his team "knew it would be a consequential call" because Arizona was one of the states "that mattered." He added that their team "knew Trump's chances were very small and getting smaller based on what we had seen."
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Cheney talks on the phone at the Capitol on June 13.
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A video of Trump is displayed over the committee during the June 13 hearing.
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Members of the media work at the Capitol on June 13.
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A staff member looks into the hearing room on June 13.
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Lofgren gives an opening statement on June 13. She said the committee would demonstrate the 2020 election was not stolen, adding that the Trump campaign's "big lie was also a big rip-off."
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Recorded testimony from former Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani is played during the June 13 hearing. The committee said it had evidence showing how Trump cast aside his legal team after his election loss and replaced them with conspiracy-pushing advisers like Giuliani. "Trump rejected the advice of his campaign experts on election night, and instead followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani, to just claim that he won," Cheney said in her opening statement. The panel later played a clip from Trump spokesman Jason Miller, whose said in his deposition that "the mayor was definitely intoxicated" at the White House on election night. Giuliani has denied any wrongdoing related to the efforts to overturn the election.
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Members of the committee stand during a short recess on June 13.
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James Goldstone, former president of ABC News and adviser to the January 6 committee, walks in a hallway before the hearing on June 13.
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Raskin attends the hearing on June 13.
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Thompson arrives for the June 13 hearing.
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Serena Liebengood, widow of Capitol Police officer Howie Liebengood, cries as she attends the committee's hearing on June 9.
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The committee is seated at the start of its public hearing on June 9. From left are Murphy, Aguilar, Schiff, Lofgren, Thompson, Cheney, Kinzinger, Raskin and Luria.
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Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards embraces Sandra Garza, partner of the late Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, after testifying on June 9. Sicknick suffered strokes and died of natural causes one day after responding to the attack on January 6.
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An image of a makeshift noose and gallows, seen on the Capitol grounds on January 6, is shown by the committee during its presentation on June 9. The presentation showed a now-infamous clip of Trump supporters chanting, "Hang Mike Pence." Trump had criticized the vice president for announcing that he would not overturn the results of the 2020 election.
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Edwards was injured while defending the Capitol on January 6. She told the committee she witnessed "carnage" and chaos."
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People gather in a park outside the Capitol to watch the hearing on June 9.
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Edwards and documentary filmmaker Nick Quested are sworn in to testify on June 9. Quested was embedded with the Proud Boys and filmed them on the day of the attack.
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From left, Schiff, Lofgren, Raskin and Thompson confer during a break in the first hearing.
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Quested watches Edwards' testimony on June 9.
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Trump is displayed on a screen during the June 9 hearing.
