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UPDATED: There are no details yet about Tuesday’s surprise hearing for the January 6th Commission, which comes at a time when Congress is out of session and the panel had said it was going on a break until after the recess. Broadcasters ABC and CBS and NBC as well as Fox News, CNN and MSNBC have said they will break…

The January 6 Committee has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, a surprise move at a time when Congress is out of session and the committee had said it was going on a break until after the recess. The news comes as the House select panel has been examining footage from Alex Holder’s upcoming three-part Discovery+…

Alex Holder said that during the interviews he conducted for his Discovery+ docuseries Unprecedented, Donald Trump never wavered from his contention that the election was stolen from him, while his children, including Ivanka, supported their father’s post-election challenge. Yet Holder’s access to the First Family isn…

UPDATED, with latest: A number of lawmakers, including Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), sought presidential pardons after January 6th, according to testimony before the committee’s hearing on Thursday. “The only reason I know to ask for a pardon is you think you committed a crime,” said Rep. Adam…

UPDATED with latest: Alex Holder, who gave a deposition to the January 6th Committee on Thursday over the Discovery+ documentary he made about Donald Trump, said that he interviewed the president twice after the attack on the Capitol. “The first time, he did come across as quite irate and quite depressed and…

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the chairman of the January 6th Committee, said on Wednesday that the hearing schedule will continue into July. A reason: Newly obtained evidence, including footage from British filmmaker Alex Holder, who is scheduled to speak to the committee on Thursday. Per Politico, Thompson…

UPDATE: At one point after the election, as he made wild and false allegations of voter fraud, Rudy Giuliani accused election worker Wandrea ArShaye Moss of handing her mom, Ruby Freeman, a USB drive full of votes. In a video shown to the committee, Giuliani claimed that the drives were passed around like “vials of…

Ginni Thomas, conservative political activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was served with an official letter yesterday from the Congressional Committee Investigating January 6 requesting an interview, according to MSNBC. A reported copy of the letter posted online says, “The Select Committee has…

The 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in is today, the “third rate burglary” that ultimately brought down a presidency, and all this week Washington, D.C. has been in a bit of nostalgic mode. At the DC/DOX Festival, directors Debra McClutchy and Anne Alvergue screened their new Netflix documentary The Martha Mitc…

5TH UPDATE: Some of the riveting revelations out of Thursday’s January 6th Committee hearing were so extraordinary as to overshadow one of the more important messages that the members are trying to convey: There is a ‘clear and present danger” to democracy. Those were the words of J. Michael Luttig, retired…

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) previewed the next January 6th Committee hearing, saying in a Twitter post that it would focus on Donald Trump’s “relentless effort” to pressure Mike Pence to reject the electoral vote count that showed Joe Biden as the victor. Cheney hinted that the hearing, scheduled to start on Thursday at 1…

Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.’s fiancée and a former adviser to his father’s re-election bid, got paid $60,000 for her two-minute speech at the Stop the Steal rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol, according to one of the members of the January 6th Committee. In an interview with CNN, Rep. Zoe Lofgren…