1/6 Insurrection Investigation

[Rick Plant]

PLEA AGREEMENT hearing scheduled in Capitol riot case of Geoffrey Sills, who's accused of using "deadly or dangerous weapon.. a pole-like object" to assault/resist police

It'll be Tuesday

Sills is 1 of approx. 260 Jan 6 defendants accused of assaulting/resisting police...so far.

[Rick Plant]

Member of panel probing U.S. Capitol attack says he is encouraged by Pence comments

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A member of the U.S. congressional panel probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol said on Sunday he was encouraged by Mike Pence's recent comments that the former vice president was willing to consider testifying before the committee.

"I was encouraged to hear it and I hope it meant what it sounded like it meant. We have been in discussion with the (former) vice president's counsel for some time," U.S. Representative Adam Schiff, a Democrat, said in an interview with CNN on Sunday.

Pence has said he thinks Trump was wrong to believe the former vice president had the power to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election, whose results were being certified by Pence and lawmakers when the Capitol was attacked by supporters of Trump, a Republican. The attack occurred weeks after false claims by the former president that he had won the election.

Schiff said on Sunday: "He (Pence) knows of our interest in having him come before us, and I am confident that if he is truly willing, that there is a way to work out any executive privilege or separation of powers issues."

Pence said on Wednesday he would consider testifying before the committee if asked.

The panel held eight hearings over six weeks, which wrapped up in July and featured hours of testimony from close Trump allies and former White House staff.

The hearings were intended to lay out a case that Trump violated the law as he tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next. The panel has said it plans to push its investigation further in the coming weeks.

© Reuters

[Rick Plant]

Jan. 6 committee hearing scrutinizes Former President Trump's actions during riot

Watch:

[Rick Plant]

Initial appearance TOMORROW in  Jan 6 case of Antonio Lamotta.  Justice Dept says DC police body cam reveals a recognizable image of Lamotta's face amid the mob

Lamotta had been arrested in Philadelphia two days after 2020 election for carrying firearm, per investigators.

[Rick Plant]

Back in court today at 10am -- the large Capitol riot case including former Trump State Dept appointee Federico Klein, who along with several co-defendants is accused of assaulting/resisting police.

[Rick Plant]

Initial appearance today in Jan 6 case of Antonio Lamotta.  Justice Dept says DC police body cam reveals a recognizable image of Lamotta's face amid the mob.

Lamotta had been arrested in Philadelphia two days after 2020 election for carrying firearm, per investigators.

[Rick Plant]

Time-lapse video shows Jan. 6 mob surge 4 minutes after Trump tweeted attack on Pence



The House select committee has blamed Donald Trump's tweet for putting a target on Mike Pence's back, and a time-lapse video shows that appears to be true.

The former president attacked Pence because he "didn't have the courage" to halt or delay certification of Joe Biden's election win on Jan. 6, 2021, and the surveillance video recorded from high above the Capitol grounds show a crowd of Trump supporters surge toward the police barrier less than four minutes after that tweet.

Trump's tweet came at 2:24 p.m. and Secret Service agents whisked Pence to a secure location in the Capitol two minutes later, and the video shows the mob surge just seconds before 2:28 p.m.

Some of the rioters had already broken into the building at 2:11 p.m. and made their way inside, and the crowd came 15 minutes before Oath Keepers and Proud Boys to use a tactical "stack" formation to push their way through and then forcibly enter the Rotunda.

More than 800 people have been arrested in connection with the storming of Congress by Trump supporters, according to the Justice Department.

The assault on the Capitol left at least five people dead and 140 police officers injured and followed a fiery speech by Trump to thousands of his supporters near the White House.

Trump was impeached for a historic second time by the House after the Capitol riot -- he was charged with inciting an insurrection -- but was acquitted by the Senate, where only seven members of his own Republican party voted against him.

Ryan J. Reilly @ryanjreilly

Hadn't realized this before. This surge of the mob came just minutes after Trump's tweet about Mike Pence.

https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1562127586817368064


Edgar @EdBonillaB

4 min after Trump tweets about Mike pence, the crowd rallies and breaks the line.

Watch Video Here: https://twitter.com/EdBonillaB/status/1562126814864183297