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91 U.S. Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell and Metropolitan Police Department serviceman Daniel Hodges, who were some injured defending the Capitol and members of Congress connected January 6, 2021, ticker arsenic the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack connected the U.S. Capitol play a video of erstwhile President Donald Trump declaring that helium won the statesmanlike predetermination connected predetermination nighttime of 2020 during their nationalist proceeding connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, October 13, 2022.
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The House prime committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot plans to ballot to subpoena erstwhile President Donald Trump during Thursday's nationalist hearing, NBC News reported.
The determination to subpoena Trump has been nether information for immoderate time, sources acquainted with the committee's plans told NBC.
The planned ballot volition people the boldest measurement yet for the bipartisan panel, which has truthful acold issued more than 100 subpoenas and interviewed much than 1,000 radical implicit the people of its investigation.
Most of those witnesses person complied with the committee's requests, though a fewer person defied subpoenas for their testimony. Steve Bannon, a erstwhile elder adjutant successful Trump's White House, was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena to testify.
Trump is thought to beryllium highly improbable to willingly cooperate with the committee, which helium repeatedly decried arsenic a politically motivated witch hunt.
Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., clarified successful his opening connection that Thursday's presumption is technically not a hearing, but a "formal committee concern meeting" truthful members tin perchance clasp a ballot connected further investigative action.
A spokesperson for the prime committee did not instantly corroborate the reported program to ballot to subpoena the erstwhile president. A spokeswoman for Trump did not instantly remark connected NBC's reporting.
The committee's ninth nationalist hearing, which was ongoing aboriginal Thursday afternoon, took a wide look astatine the findings from their investigation, interspersed with caller clips and information.
The nine-member sheet kept the spotlight connected Trump arsenic it played clips of his erstwhile staffers, who testified that they knew astatine the clip that Trump had mislaid the 2020 predetermination to President Joe Biden.
The committee is tasked with probing the facts and causes of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, erstwhile a convulsive mob of Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol and forced lawmakers to fly their chambers for safety.
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