Welcome to our live coverage of today’s session of the Special Commission to Investigate the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol.
In today’s hearing – the last scheduled – the panel is expected to focus on what former President Donald Trump did – or didn’t do – during the roughly three-hour period while the violence was taking place.
The Democratic-led commission accused the former president of doing nothing to quell the riot or tell his supporters to leave, potentially putting politicians — as well as his own Vice President Mike Pence — at risk.
The hearing is the eighth in a series of sessions aimed at investigating the riot and assigning blame. The panel investigated the attack over the past year, interviewing more than 1,000 witnesses and amassing tens of thousands of documents.
Although no additional hearings have been scheduled, the group plans to continue its investigation and will likely have more hearings in the future. He could issue criminal charges to the Justice Department, leaving it up to Attorney General Merrick Garland to decide whether Trump or others should be prosecuted.
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