U.S. House panel investigating Capitol attack aims for May hearings
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by former President Donald Trump’s supporters is aiming to carry public hearings on their findings in Might, U.S. Consultant Jamie Raskin informed CBS on Sunday.
“The hearings must be in early Might. That is what I am hoping for. Clearly we’re up in opposition to lots of obstruction,” stated Raskin, a member of the Home Choose Committee on Jan. 6.
The Choose Committee has performed lots of of interviews in its investigation of the assault, which got here as lawmakers contained in the Capitol have been poised to certify the Republican Trump’s defeat within the November 2020 presidential election.
“What we’re on the lookout for is the connections between the within political coup and the violent rebel. And I do really feel assured we’re going to have the ability to inform that story,” Raskin stated.
Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, testified to the committee on Thursday. The panel additionally expects to talk to Ivanka Trump, Kushner’s spouse and Trump’s older daughter.
The panel voted unanimously Monday to hunt “contempt of Congress” expenses in opposition to Peter Navarro, a former commerce adviser to Trump, and Daniel Scavino, who was a Trump deputy chief of workers.
Raskin stated the committee continues to scrutinize a seven-hour hole in White Home data of Trump’s telephone calls the day of the lethal assault.
“We’ve got no complete fine-grained portrait of what was occurring throughout that interval and that is clearly of intense curiosity to us,” Raskin stated, including that witness testimony has given the panel perception into conversations that occurred throughout that point interval. “It does look like the gaps are suspiciously tailor-made to the guts of the occasions.”
Home Republican chief Kevin McCarthy final yr described speaking to Trump through the riot, saying he urged the president to name off his supporters and settle for his defeat.
(Reporting by Katharine Jackson; Enhancing by Chizu Nomiyama)
