U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell (from left), officers Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department, and Capitol Police Pfc. Harry Dunn are sworn in Tuesday before testifying before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. Oliver Contreras / Pool/Getty Images
Originally published on July 27, 2021 3:12 pm
Updated July 27, 2021 at 3:12 PM ET
Four police officers testified Tuesday about the physical and verbal assaults they faced responding to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in a highly emotional hearing.
The four officers Pfc. Harry Dunn and Sgt. Aquilino Gonell of the U.S. Capitol Police, and Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department each gave opening statements and answered questions from committee members.
House GOP: Pelosi’s ‘cherry-picked’ Jan. 6 committee is a ‘sham’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the Speaker’s Balcony Hallway of the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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House Republican leaders have called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s January 6 committee a “sham” that would only produce a “failed report.” In a press conference ahead of Tuesday’s opening hearings in Washington, Republicans insisted Pelosi cherry-picked members for the committee who would stick to her talking points and predetermined narrative for the events of January 6.
“We now have a committee that all of America wants to know the answers to,” explained House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). “…Unfortunately, Speaker Pelosi will only pick on people unto the committee that will ask the questions she wants asked. That becomes a failed committee and a failed report, a sham that no one ca
Some of Donald Trump s fiercest allies in Congress are continuing to downplay or ignore the January 6 insurrection, taking cues from the former President even after four police officers testified Tuesday, in front of the House select committee investigating the deadly Capitol attack, about their harrowing experiences that day.
Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas rejected the notion that lawmakers were downplaying the insurrection, only to then say that he thought it was an exaggeration to frame the riot as the worst attack since the Civil War. I don t know of anybody that s tried to downplay it other than, you know, their gross exaggeration that it s the worst attack on democracy since the Civil War. As Christopher Wray said, it s hard for those of us who were here for 9/11 to say Yes, this was worse than 9/11, Gohmert said Tuesday, paraphrasing testimony from the FBI director in June where he rejected a comparison between January 6 and 9/11. At that hearing, Wray called th
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CNN reported Tuesday that the Democrat-run committee chosen by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to investigate the January 6 Capitol riot “made it clear they’re going after Trump” on the first day of hearings.
The Tuesday hearing featured members of the Capitol Police, including one who admitted openly that he had voted for Joe Biden, testifying about their experiences in graphic and explicit detail and also stating their political opinions.
Members of the committee, who included past House impeachment managers Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD), tried to connect the riot to then-President Donald Trump, as they did in the second impeachment trial.