Jan 6 hearings latest: New Trump photos emerge as Mo Brooks and Ginni Thomas to talk to committee | NEWSRUX

CBS Information has obtained two photos from the hours of documentary footage subpoenaed by the 6 January committee.

Alex Holder’s thus-far-unseen three-part documentary has been purchased by Discovery+. Its existence was reportedly a shock to many core Trump aides, who solely heard about it when the committee’s subpoena was revealed this week.

Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks, who spoke on the “Cease the Steal” rally exterior the White Home on 6 January earlier than the Capitol riot, is clearly livid after dropping his state’s Senate major to a Trump-backed challenger on Tuesday night time – and he seems to be getting ready to have his revenge on the previous president within the type of testimony to the committee, which he’s insisting he’ll solely give in public.

Mr Brooks was initially endorsed by Mr Trump in his run for the open seat, however the ex-president withdrew his backing after the congressman started to slip within the polls and instructed an viewers of supporters they need to cease fixating on the supposed “theft” of the 2020 election.

After the endorsement was pulled, Mr Brooks shared an unflattering story that Mr Trump was nonetheless asking individuals whether or not he might by some means be reinstalled as president earlier than the following election.

The Home Choose Committee investigating the Capitol riot has obtained 11 hours of beforehand unseen interviews and photographs that includes former President Donald Trump and his household within the months main as much as and the instant aftermath of the 6 January riot, stories point out.

In accordance with CBS’s Bob Costas, the documentary footage the panel subpoenaed from British filmmaker Alex Holder consists of greater than 10 hours of interviews, together with statements from Mr Trump.

That footage is along with many hours of footage Mr Holder shot that aren’t direct interviews with Mr Trump and his household.

Pennsylvania Senate candiate Mehmet Oz is making a powerful pivot in the direction of a centrist citizens as he hurtles in the direction of a normal election showdown with the state’s lieutenant governor in November.

The superstar TV doc higher often known as “Dr Oz” has eliminated any point out of former president Donald Trump from his Twitter bio, background picture, marketing campaign web site splash web page, and even current commercials, following a major marketing campaign that relied closely on his endorsement from the forty fifth president. The adjustments had been first reported on Wednesday by Axios.

Senator Ron Johnson stated right this moment that he has not appeared into the alternate electors’ controversy that concerned his workplace any additional.

He instructed CNN’s Ted Barrett: “No, I haven’t. Haven’t appeared in any additional as a result of it’s a non-story.”

Requested if he had appeared contained in the envelope that supposedly contained the pretend electors, he stated: “I don’t consider I ever did, no.”

Right here’s our earlier protection of the senator’s preliminary response to being requested in regards to the revelations from the January 6 listening to.

Extra People have heard about Elon Musk’s pledge to vote Republican than have heard about retired federal decide Michael Luttig’s takedown of Donald Trump through the January 6 hearings, a ballot has discovered.

The ballot, which was carried out following final week’s preliminary televised January 6 hearings, suggests a few of the damning revelations aired by witnesses haven’t been seen by the American public.

A slapstick political advert from senators Cory Booker and Jon Tester is hoping to attract focus to a subject not usually mentioned on the water cooler: agriculture reform.

“Consolidation within the agriculture trade is costing customers and producers, so @SenBooker and I are teaming as much as *sort out* it,” Sen Tester tweeted on Wednesday, teasing the video the place he and his Democratic colleague ham it up on digicam to jokingly showcase all of the lengths – and pleasant prices – they’re prepared to take to get a invoice that will place a right away moratorium on acquisitions and mergers inside the meals and agriculture sector throughout the president’s desk.

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