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Jan. 6 Capitol Insurrection hearings preview
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The House subcommittee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will hold its first public hearings this week.

The hearings will take place during prime time - peak viewing hours in the United States. Lawmakers will lay out their findings from a 10-month investigation into last year's populist assault on Congress.

A partisan mob attacked the seat of the U.S. government after President Donald Trump and his allies exhausted legal attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss. They spread lies about widespread voter fraud, which had been debunked in state courts across the nation. The question is whether the conspiracy-mongering crossed over into inciting a violent insurrection.

Lawmakers will also address former President’s attempts to overturn the results of the presidential election.

A House committee interviewed more than 1,000 people.

Here’s what you need to know:

WHEN WILL THE HEARINGS TAKE PLACE?

The first hearing is scheduled to go live Thursday Jun. 9 at 8 PM and will take place in an office building in the U.S. Capitol complex.

The committee hasn’t announced a full formal schedule, but according to The Washington Post, there could be “as many as eight hearings though June, with a final hearing in September.”

WHERE CAN IT BE WATCHED?

The first hearing is scheduled to be aired on several U.S. broadcast networks and cable news channels. The hearings will also stream on C-Span and the Jan. 6 panel’s YouTube page.

Fox News Channel (FNC) is an exception - the only cable news network that will not run the hearings. Parent company, Fox Corporation, said the hearings will run on FNC's sister channel, the Fox Business Network.

WHAT SHOULD PEOPLE EXPECT?

The committee, composed of seven Democrats and two Republicans, will lay out several areas of information that it gathered through its investigations.

The committee has divided the subject matter of the hearings into several areas, including former President Trump’s attempt to prevent Congressional certification of the 2020 election results, the funding of the rallies preceding the attacks, the security failures during the insurrection, and actions by rioters.

Several committee members have promised to disclose new information during the hearings, though they did not provide specifics.

Investigators have been unable to persuade many Trump allies or top Republicans in Congress to testify, but the committee plans to call on former administration staff to appear.

The committee may show video recordings from interviews with Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner.

Along with the released report of its findings, the committee also plans to recommend legislative reforms.

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