bannon in criminal contempt. bannon failed to comply with the committee s subpoena claiming executive privilege. now, that vote as i said going to be happening live. we are going to bring it to you as soon as it happens. you will see it live. and you will also hear from both the chairman of the committee, bennie thompson, and one of the only two republicans on the committee, vice chair liz cheney. both are going to speak live here on prime time and so you are going to see them live. of course, cheney one of only ten republican house members to who voted to impeach trump for his role in inciting the riot on january 6th is on the committee along with republican adam kinzinger. this is a critical moment for the committee. their first public chance to fight back against attempts by the former president and his allies to completely stymie their investigation. the committee hopes in part that this threat against bannon will persuade other witnesses to cooperate and they hope the th
over throw of an american election but also to preserve american democracy period. every day it seems like more new video emerges from january 6th including this closeup view from the new york times showing the mayhem at the front lines of the capitol and given how just insane what we witnessed that day was and all that we have learned in the months since, the simple fact is it actually just has to be illegal to try to over throw the government full stop. but if it isn t illegal, if what we saw on january 6th didn t include major crimes against the united states, there really is no united states. there is no democracy. donald trump tried to overturn a free and fair election. he did it overtly and covertly. he tried to under cut the election on the front end. tried to get ukraine to announce a fake investigation and lied about mail in voting and on and on and on and tried to undo it on the back end. first, he tried to nullify the electoral votes from the multiple states and
the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess pursuant the house deposition authority regulation ten, the chair announces the committee s approval to release the deposition material presented during today s hearing. good afternoon and may god bless the united states of america. four months ago, this committee started to present our findings to you, the american people. from the beginning, we understood that some people watching those proceedings would wrongly assume that the committee s investigation was a partisan exercise. that s why i asked those who are skeptical of our work to simply listen. to listen to the evidence, to hear the testimony with an open mind. and to let the facts speak for themselves before reaching a judgment. over the course of these hearings, the evidence has proven that there were a multi part plan led by former p
on capitol hill the january 6th select committee about to share striking never before seen testimony and evidence all with the focus on former president trump and the central role the panel says he played in the attack on democracy. welcome to cnn s live coverage of the january 6th hearings. i m anderson cooper. i m jake tapper. this is the final hearing. committee members are promising to hammer home their urgent argument that donald j. trump remains in their view a clear and present danger to american democracy as trump continues to push false claims about the 2020 election. committee aides tell us the hearing today will zero in on trump s state of mind on and around january 6th. we re told we ll see and hear from cabinet officials, and other new witnesses who have recently been interviewed by the committee that could potentially include former secretary of state mike pompeo, former treasury secretary steve mnuchin and elaine chao. some coming from the secret serv
insurrection. the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol will be in order. without objection, the chair has authorized to declare the committee in races at any point. pursuant to house deposition authority deposition the chair announces the committees approval to announce the good afternoon. in our previous hearings, the select committee showed that then president trump applied pressure at every level of government. of local election workers, up to his own vice president. opened hoping public servants would give into that pressure and help him steal an election he actually lost. today, we will tell the story of how the pressure campaign also targeted the federal agency, charged with enforcement of our laws, the department of justice. we have already covered part of mr. trump s effort. we heard from attorney general bill barr, tell the story and the committee about the baseless claims mr. trump wanted the justice departm