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UPDATED with latest: January 6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson told reporters the committee has set its final meeting for Monday, at which is will refer charges in “five or six categories” to entities such as the Justice Department. He indicated the referrals were still being finalized, but that they…

UPDATED with the latest: The January 6 Committee reported on the status of its negotiations with former president Donald Trump related to its recent subpoena for his testimony under oath and “records relevant to the Select Committee's investigation into the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol…

UPDATE: The January 6th Committee concluded with a unanimous vote to subpoena Donald Trump. “We are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this in motion,” said Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY).  Trump seems likely to try to fight the subpoena. It’s rare for any congressional panel to…

UPDATE: Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), soundly defeated in her primary against a Trump-backed challenger, said that “now the real work begins,” as she vowed to prevent the former president from returning to the presidency. As pundits weighed the possibility that Cheney would wage a 2024 presidential run, she used her…

The reelection campaign of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) unveiled a new ad spot featuring her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, in which he calls Donald Trump a “coward” and a threat to democracy. "In our nation's 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our Republic than…

The January 6th Committee has surprised many in Washington, D.C., by pulling off the unexpected — not just with new revelations but in the way that it has methodically laid out a narrative of Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the election results. The committee has presented its case as if each hearing was episodic…

UPDATE: Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said that former President Donald Trump tried to reach out to a January 6th Committee witness, who has not yet been heard from at the hearings, and that the incident has been reported to the Justice Department. “We will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously,&#8221…

The January 6th Committee promised a star witness Tuesday at their surprise hearing, and former Donald Trump insider Cassidy Hutchinson more than delivered. The top aide to Trump's last Chief of Staff Mark Meadows provided vivid testimony on what was actually going on in the White House on that terrible day, and who…

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…

Editor’s note: This post on the Jan 6 committee hearings by our TV critic Dominic Patten has been reclassified from a review to a commentary, and has been edited to better reflect the author’s point of view. In trying to opine that the presentation of evidence about a horrific day in American history did not rise to…

UPDATED, 4:57 PM: When the January 6th Committee holds its first primetime hearing on Thursday, Fox News Channel will stay with its primetime lineup of Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. The proceedings will air on the Fox Business network instead. The hearing starts at 8 PM ET on Thursday, with…

The Republican National Committee passed a resolution on Friday censuring two party members, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) for their positions as members of the January 6th Committee, the congressional effort to investigate the attack on the Capitol in 2021. The resolution, which passed by…