This post and comment thread are dedicated to the House January 6 Committee hearings scheduled to begin Thursday June 16, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. ET.
Any updates to this post will appear at the bottom.
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The hearings will stream on:
House J6 Committee’s website: https://january6th.house.gov/news/watch-live
House J6 Committee’s direct stream: https://january6th.house.gov/legislation/hearings/061622-select-committee-hearing
House J6 Committee’s YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/January6thCmte
C-SPAN’s House J6 hearing page: https://www.c-span.org/video/?520944-1/president-trumps-campaign-influence-vice-president-pence
C-SPAN’s YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/c/C-SPAN/featured
C-SPAN’s YouTube stream for this hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zkZHb2kA2c
Check PBS for your local affiliate’s stream: https://www.pbs.org/ (see upper right corner)
Twitter will carry multiple live streams (NBC, PBS, Washington Post, Reuters, CSPAN, Bloomberg): https://twitter.com/i/events/1536343313325821952
ABC, NBC, CBS will carry the hearings live on broadcast; MSNBC and CNN will carry on their cable networks.
Twitter accounts live tweeting the hearing today:
Brandi Buchman-DailyKos: https://twitter.com/Brandi_Buchman/status/1537479772502204417
Scott MacFarlane-CBS: https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1537479344116875266
Jennifer Taub: https://twitter.com/jentaub/status/1537481664821174278
If you know of any other credible source tweeting the coverage, please share a link in comments.
An agenda for this hearing has not yet been published on the committee’s website and may not be as it didn’t publish one in advance for the last two hearings.
Expected to testify today:
Greg Jacob, former Vice President Mike Pence’s counsel
J. Michael Luttig, retired federal judge, U.S. Court of Appeals-Fourth Circuit, and informal advisor to Pence (opening statement available online)
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ADDER — 12:58 P.M. ET —
Worth reading or re-reading: Michael Luttig published an op-ed in CNN on April 27 this year, Opinion: The Republican blueprint to steal the 2024 election which contained this warning:
As it stands today, Trump, or his anointed successor, and the Republicans are poised, in their word, to “steal” from Democrats the presidential election in 2024 that they falsely claim the Democrats stole from them in 2020. But there is a difference between the falsely claimed “stolen” election of 2020 and what would be the stolen election of 2024. Unlike the Democrats’ theft claimed by Republicans, the Republicans’ theft would be in open defiance of the popular vote and thus the will of the American people: poetic, though tragic, irony for America’s democracy.