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On capitol hill the January 6th Select Committee about to share striking never before seen testimony and evidence all with the Focus On Former President Trump and the central role the panel says he played in the attack on democracy. Welcome to cnns live coverage of the January 6th Hearings. Im anderson cooper. Im jake tapper. This is the final hearing. Committee members are promising to hammer home their urgent argument that donald j. Trump remains in their view a Clear And Present Danger to American Democracy as trump continues to push false claims about the 2020 election. Committee aides tel...

♪ ♪ on capitol hill the january 6th select committee about to share striking never before seen testimony and evidence all with the focus on former president trump and the central role the panel says he played in the attack on democracy. welcome to cnn's live coverage of the january 6th hearings. i'm anderson cooper. >> i'm jake tapper. this is the final hearing. committee members are promising to hammer home their urgent argument that donald j. trump remains in their view a clear and present danger to american democracy as trump continues to push false claims about the 2020 e...

Shut it down, close it down, that's the word that michael schmidt uses in the "new york times" story, that is, as far as i can tell, obstruction of justice. there is a statute many federal prosecutors are familiar with, title 18, united states code section 1503. it is often prosecuted in the federal courts. it says whoever corruptly, maybe i can just read it. i'm sorry to -- yeah. whatever corruptly influences or endeavors to inflew entuence th administration of justice is guilty of obstruction of justice. it is not a complicated law. if you corruptly with bad intent, try to influence or endea...

Defined. the statute that i was talking about, session -- title 18 section 2,000, section 15203 an 1512, the defendant has to act corruptly. that is usually left up to the jury to decide, corruptly. but i suppose donald trump could say i was just acting out of humanitarian reasons. frankly, it is very difficult to come up with a noncorrupt reason to shut down an investigation of your own campaign. >> lots of questions for the white house. >> even if you feel sorry for mike flynn, you know, the idea that you were doing this simply as a humanitarian gesture, i think that would be tough to persua...