This post and comment thread are dedicated to the House January 6 Committee hearings scheduled to begin Tuesday June 28, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. ET.
This hearing has been convened on short notice issued yesterday afternoon.
Please take all comments unrelated to the hearings to a different thread.
The hearings will stream on:
House J6 Committee’s website: https://january6th.house.gov/news/watch-live
House J6 Committee’s YouTube page: https://youtu.be/HeQNV-aQ_jU
C-SPAN’s House J6 hearing page: https://www.c-span.org/video/?521387-1/sixth-hearing-investigation-capitol-attack
C-SPAN’s YouTube page: https://youtu.be/hSNBe-Wt6Q4
Check PBS for your local affiliate’s stream: https://www.pbs.org/ (see upper right corner)
Twitter is carrying multiple live streams (NBC, PBS, Washington Post, Reuters, CSPAN, Bloomberg): https://twitter.com/i/events/1541478015770603520
Broadcast and cable network coverage TBD.
Twitter accounts live tweeting the hearing:
Marcy’s Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1541829534248566784
Brandi Buchman-DailyKos: https://twitter.com/Brandi_Buchman/status/1541826101588140034
Scott MacFarlane-CBS: https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1541825113938616321
Laura Rozen: https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/1541829799169122308
Chris Geidner: https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/1541841253939253253
If you know of any other credible source tweeting the coverage, please share a link in comments.
The witness scheduled for today’s hearing is:
Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
Hutchinson will appear today before the committee to “present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony” and out of concerns for her physical safety, according to Punchbowl News’ newsletter.
Hutchinson also recently changed legal representation. Her lawyer had been Stefan Passantino who was connected to Trump; he has been replaced with Jody Hunt who in turn is connected to the Trump administration’s first attorney general, former senator Jeff Sessions. Hutchinson is reported to have become more cooperative with the committee once she changed attorneys.
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Side note:
1) Fox confirms that Michael Stenger, the Senate Sergeant at Arms who was in charge of Senate security the day of the Capitol riot, has died.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 27, 2022
According to Fox News’ Pergram in the Twitter thread above, Stenger had cancer.
Do note Stenger’s death has set off a lot of right-wing conspiracy trolling.