i m poppy harlow. and i m jim sciutto. tonight the january 6th committee will begin to lay out its evidence. after 11 months of interviewing witnesses, scrutinizing thousands of hours of video, more than 100,000 pages of documents, the panel will hold its first public hearing, this one in prime time. it will make a case, that the former president was at the center of a coordinated multistep effort to overturn joe biden s 2020 election win. the committee will present, it says, never-before-seen material. and chips of taped interviews with family officials, and witnesses who had an up-close view of the rioters in action. many leaders like kevin mccarthy, have been all over the air waves, trying to downplay and denigrate the committee s work. leaked audio from just five days after the insurrection, coming from mccarthy himself, reveals that he really wanted a bipartisan investigation into the attack. listen to part of that. we can t just sweep this under the rug. we need t
president trump, was at the center of the conspiracy to overturn the election of joe biden. the committee says it will connect the dots between trump s lies and the violence at the capitol. aides have amassed a mountain of new information. lauren fox is live on capitol hill for us. what are you expecting? how are things going to be playing out? well, kate, this is all going to kick off with opening statements from thompson, the committee chairman, and the top republican on the committee, liz cheney. we re told from aides they are going to run this hearing. they will do most of the talking. there s three areas that they are going to explore tonight. some of which is unseen to the public previously. one of the areas, they are going to play some video from the private and closed door depositions and interviews they did with trump family members and campaign officials, white house aides. we expect that is going to make an impact here. we know there s going to be previous unseen f
primetime setting detailing all of the information they have here. including video of depositions of former trump officials, xwhie house officials, and including potentially family members, talking about january 6th. all that the committee shows the american public, convince the american public, that donald trump was at the center, connecting him to the deadly violence of january 6th and the efforts to overturn the election. putting that together in a direct line. we re learning about all of the concerns happening behind the scenes among republican members of congress in the run-up of january 6th. one congresswoman, debbie lesko, according to audio, raised concerns about what could happen, the violence that could happen, at the hands of trump supporters on january 6th, just a day before. i also ask leadership to come up with a safety plan for members. i m actually concerned about this because we have, who knows
conspiracy? i do. it s extremely broad and well-organized. it s really chilling. reporter: just this week, a federal judge flagged possible evidence of a crime. that same judge issued a landmark ruling earlier this year, finding it was more likely than not that trump and a conservative lawyer committed a crime and strategizing to overturn the election. trump has not been charged with a crime and has denied any wrongdoing. he continues to downplay his involvement in the deadly insurrection, while bashing the committee s work as another, quote, witch hunt. january 6th, what a lot of crap. another con job, just like russia, russia, russia. reporter: for 187 minutes, committee members say trump was d derelict in his duty, and pleased that supporters were fighting for him, as republicans pleaed for trump to intervene in text messages. i think mark meadows is the
for trump s election lies, his attempts to stop the transfer of power to president joe biden and the violence at the capitol. while trump was impeached just days after inciting the riot, the committee says it has uncovered more since then. the select committee has found evidence more than just incitement here. reporter: the committee interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses behind closed doors, including jared kushner, ivanka trump, donald trump jr., bill barr and obtained 135,000 documents. we must also know what happened every minute of that day in the white house. every phone call, every conversation, every meeting, leading up to, during and after the attack. reporter: the committee is clearly signaling to the justice department, that holds the power to charge trump with a crime january 6th. do you believe it was a