Jan. 6 committee holds a public hearing - 10/13 (FULL LIVE STREAM)

After a two-month hiatus, the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol returns for a public hearing.

The panel is planning to vote to subpoena former president Donald Trump, according to three individuals with knowledge of the vote. The individuals did not say whether they are seeking the former president’s direct testimony or more documents beyond those the committee has already received.

The committee is also expected to highlight newly obtained Secret Service records showing how Trump was repeatedly alerted to brewing violence that day — and still sought to stoke the conflict — as it seeks to tie together its case for Trump’s culpability for the dark day in U.S. history. No live witnesses are expected to testify.

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[jefferyfarr]

Pence: I'm not getting in that car."

[antondovydaitis]

I would take the day off from work just to see Trump testify publicly under oath.

[yournotthatimportant]

He didn't want mail in voting because louis DeJoy who he put in place was purposefully delaying the mail thats why

[bcx]

how much u want to bet 45's response will be to plead the 5th to every question?

[antiquesrestoration]

Patsy Boloney 😆 Did Kevin McCarthy get whiplash from his back peddling? There is no way that trump would ever appear before this committee. He's too much of a coward.

[johnbiela]

Let the taker of the 5th, stand before the nation and explain.

[filmsage]

How many people besides me think Trump is still going to dodge the Subpoena order using the courts?

[tragicrhythm]

30:30 News coverage preview of hearing
1:01:45 Jan 6 hearing

[phyllisantebi]

We need to confront ongoing threats to our democracy, economy, and in our personal lives.

[cynthiaschultheis]

Fair justice are keystones of America....NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW!!! NOBODY!!!

[billlally]

Now if the committee is smart, once the investigation fully wraps up, they shld create a site on the internet to view everything in full. Full interviews, all documents. That way no on can say "welll they edited to look a certain way", and you know there are a lot of idiots out there that will, and are, saying that.

[crystalball]

If televised, let's all meet up at a local pub and every time trump takes the 5th, we all have to take a shot of tequila.

[dude]

"I plead the 5th, because I'm guilty."

[gloriastanleygarcia]

An excellent recap of the events of January 6th by the Jan.6th committee. I am proud of our Congress members hearings especially this last one.

[mimiwatching]

And any candidate who supports trump after this shouldn't be allowed to run for any office.

[brianszuter]

For everyone who wants to watch the whole thing, but not the talking heads before it starts, the actual hearing starts at 1:01:43. Come on WaPo... how does a 4+ hour long video not have chapters with links in the description?

[bethwright]

As a former House staffer, I'm astonished that Washington Post congressional correspondent Rhonda Colvin described the type of vote ultimately taken on the resolution incorrectly. Allow me to explain for the sake of civics education.

A voice vote is taken first and that's what happened here. Members in favor the resolution responded in unison saying "aye" and then members opposed would have said "no" in unison if anyone had been opposed, but no one was in this case. A voice vote like this is typically the only vote taken, without any further voting, on legislation, resolutions, or motions which are noncontroversial. However, any member of the legislative body in which a voice vote was just taken is then free to request a roll call vote, also referred to as a recorded or record vote, and that's exactly what happened here. That was the second vote taken, in which each member of the committee's name was called and they responded individually at that time. I don't know how many people here recall having attendance taken at school in a similar way, which was referred to as calling the roll.

The fact that a roll call vote was taken here is significant because it wasn't necessary given that everyone on the committee agreed to adopt the resolution during the initial voice vote. But sometimes a roll call vote is requested in order to get people's votes on the record and that's what happened here. In this case, members of the committee obviously wanted their individual votes to go down in the historic record. More commonly, roll call votes are requested in order to clarify the result when there are lots of votes on each side in a voice vote and the result is hard to discern. And sometimes calling for a record vote is done to make your opponents take a public position, making them go on the record when they'd prefer not to.

That's why the roll call vote on the resolution taken during this hearing was so significant, and why I'm so surprised journalist Rhonda Colvin incorrectly referred to it as a voice vote. It's a little confusing because, of course, each of the votes at today's hearing was taken by voice, but that's not the terminology used in a legislative body for a vote in which the roll is called and each member responds individually, putting their individual votes on the record. That's why it's referred to as a roll call or recorded vote.

[deeellsworth]

He needs to go to jail now a dangerous dictator

[WilliamHunterII]

The Republican Party should owe a huge debt of gratitude to Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for their participation in the J6 committee. That the Republican Party has ostracized them instead is telling.

[mammothworks]

I'd like to know why they build scaffolding out in the middle of nowhere...there was no security just "megaphone man" who we dont know is still, who was telling people to go into the Capitol