U.S. News

Olivia Troye, the former Homeland Security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence told MSNBC's Medhi Hasan that she has been shocked to see her former boss fade after standing up to the Jan. 6 attempt to overthrow the election certification.

The third of the House Select Committee's public hearings addressed Pence's role in protecting the Electoral College count. Both Republicans and Democrats highlighted his "courage" in standing up for America. But the plot for Jan. 6 became known to Pence a month earlier. It prompted some to ask why he never came out before Jan. 6 to explain what Trump wanted him to do. It also begs the question if he never faded in his dedication to uphold the 2020 election, why he needed to call so many people to ask for their legal advice, like Judge Michael Luttig and former VP Dan Quayle.

Former Watergate Prosecutor Jill Wine Banks addressed the upcoming Tuesday hearings for the House Select Committee investigating the attack on the 2020 election and the violence against Congress. While the Justice Department hasn't revealed anything about whether they intend to act, they have asked the House Committee for the information in their investigation. According to Wine Banks, the worst thing that could happen is if the DOJ doesn't act at all.

"It would be a horrible message," she said of the DOJ if it refuses to move forward. "There's nothing worse than not receiving in this case. The evidence has been obvious for a long time, but it is now being laid out in front of the American public in a way that they've never seen before. The committee has done an amazing job so far to narrate a story without a John Dean [style person] to do it."

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) isn't seeking reelection but his position on the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack has made his life more dangerous.

While appearing on ABC's "This Week," Kinzinger revealed one of the death threats against him, specifically mentioning his wife and their five-month-old baby.

The Florida Bulldog revealed that the documents filed for a state Supreme Court Justice position in Florida were made a false statement on the official document.

Judge Renatha Francis lied on her application for the state supreme court in the question asking if she'd been on the receiving end of an ethics investigation.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and the attempt to overthrow Congress has spent three public hearings focusing primarily on former President Donald Trump. Members of the Committee have sought to connect the dots to the laws that Trump violated and could be charged with.

However, speaking to Raw Story, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said that those enabling Trump were just as culpable.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- House Select Committee member, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), told Raw Story after the hearings Thursday that they'll be turning over all information, evidence and transcripts gathered to the Justice Department.

The Justice Department sent a letter to the committee asking for the transcripts last month, but at the time, Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said that they weren't turning them over just yet. Lofgren indicated that everything will be sent to the DOJ. She implied there isn't any intentional withholding of any evidence.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) told Raw Story on Thursday that she's still upset about Republicans being so dismissive over the reports involving the reconnaissance tours ahead of the Jan. 6 attack on Congress.

Gay Scanlon was one of the officials, along with Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NY), who witnessed the tours in the days before the violence. She lamented that she and the other members filed a report about what they saw and Republicans responded by filing an ethics complaint against the Democrats.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) told Raw Story during the House Select Committee hearing that the third day about the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election was a confirmation of what many of them already knew.

"It's just striking to hear from witnesses who are very much aligned with conservative causes," said Wild.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) revealed to Raw Story that the bipartisan Senate group negotiating the gun bill that aims to help stop mass shootings is still being debated. Senators don't have a lot of time left before their two-week break for the Independence Day holiday.

"I think we still have work to do on red flags," said Murphy, noting the group made progress during discussions into Wednesday evening. "But, we're not there yet. We're eager to finish this today and get text out to our colleagues but we're not there yet."

During Thursday's Jan. 6 committee hearing, Judge Michael Luttig made a clear, decisive statement that he would have given his own life to ensure that the 2020 election was certified by former Vice President Mike Pence.

"I had foreshadowed this answer in my earlier testimony to Congresswoman [Liz] Cheney (R-WI)," began Luttig about his former clerk John Eastman. "Mr. Eastman, from the beginning, said to the president that there was both legal as well as historical precedent for the vice president to overturn the election. And what we've heard today, I believe, what happened within the White House and elsewhere as all the players, led by Mr. Eastman, got wrapped around the axle by the historical evidence claim by Mr. Eastman."

Retired Professor John Eastman was a topic of conversation at the start of Thursday's hearing by the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and attempt to overthrow the election.

A piece of new information was the testimony that on Jan. 4, Eastman reportedly made it clear to former President Donald Trump that the attempt to stop the count of the Electoral College votes would be illegal.

At the top of the third day of public hearings for the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, Vice-Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) made a short statement that might provide evidence that could be used against former president Donald Trump.

Ryan Goodman, former special counsel to the Department of Defense, cited 18 US §1512, which makes it illegal to corruptly obstruct an official congressional proceeding.

Washington Post analyst Phillip Bump made an observation as news swirled about Trump lawyer John Eastman, who somehow knew that the Supreme Court was dealing with infighting over whether to take up cases involving the 2020 election.

It was reported Wednesday evening that Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, emailed Eastman, who penned the so-called "coup memo." Eastman was formerly a law clerk of Thomas. The House Select Committee has the emails.