and to, quote, connect the dots between the former president s election lies and the violence that unfolded that day. images are still so shocking. tonight is expected to include never before seen video leading up to the capitol attack and as it unfolded, as well as clips of taped interviews with trump administration officials and family members, their testimony. we also expect to hear live witness testimony from two people who had an upclose view of the rioters. and this is just the first round. more hearings are scheduled over the several weeks coming with the committee releasing a final report in september, that, of course, a couple of months before the midterms. let s begin with lauren fox on capitol hill. so, lauren, walk us through what we expect on the first day of these hearings tonight. reporter: well, this is the first opportunity for this committee to come back after months of work behind closed doors. we expect all of this is going to kick off with an opening
the committee, bennie thompson. there will also be an opening statement from republican and ranking member liz cheney. they are expected to do most of the questioning, most of the discussion today in the hearing. we also expect that this is going to break down into three really distinct pieces. one of them is going to be revealing some footage of these behind closed doors interviews and depositions that the committee has been conducting. we expect that that is going to be obviously continue to keep under wraps until the moment we see that footage. we also expect more never before seen footage of the violence of that day. reminding people back home what is at stake. we also expect live testimony from two individuals, one of them caroline edwards, she is the u.s. capitol police officer, one of the first injured in the line of duty. she suffered a traumatic brain
and to, quote, connect the dots between the former president s election lies and the violence that unfolded that day. images are still so shocking. tonight is expected to include never before seen video leading up to the capitol attack and as it unfolded, as well as clips of taped interviews with trump administration officials and family members, their testimony. we also expect to hear live witness testimony from two people who had an upclose view of the rioters. and this is just the first round. more hearings are scheduled over the several weeks coming with the committee releasing a final report in september, that, of course, a couple of months before the midterms. let s begin with lauren fox on capitol hill. so, lauren, walk us through what we expect on the first day of these hearings tonight. reporter: well, this is the first opportunity for this committee to come back after months of work behind closed doors. we expect all of this is going to kick off with an opening statement
day, days before, and the days after. that s why this is complicated. there is almost like three gigantic crime scenes, the day of, everything before, and what happened after. let me ask you this, because speaking about the future, david brooks writes in the times, we need a committee that will preserve democracy on january 6th, 2025. and january 6th, 2029. the facts are important, no question. but the remedies as well. and i wonder is the standard for this committee to at least suggest remedies and was an opportunity missed not to make that the focus? i do think that that s part of the solution here. i do agree that s important. i don t think that s necessarily should be the focus of the committee. the committee should be laying out the facts, i could think t they matter here. we live in a world where the
we also have quite honestly trump supporters who actually believe that we are going to overturn the election. and when that doesn t happen, most likely, will not happen, they re going to go nuts. so there is your warning. it is reported that she asked kevin mccarthy to, quote, come up with a safety plan ahead of january 6th. and look what happened. what do you make of actually hearing that? well, it is troubling, and you have to remember i think one of the major goals of what this committee should lay out is enough information to prevent this from happening. it is one thing to hold people accountable. it is enough to have information to make sure it didn t happen, and there is already a lot of testimony and after actions about some of the failures, whether it was within the command of the police department, or the sharing of intelligence, so that will all be tied together here to try to understand what happened on the