The request by committee chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) cited evidence the committee received that Gingrich had been in communication with senior advisers to President Donald Trump, including Jared Kushner and Jason Miller, about television ads promoting false allegations of fraud in the 2020 election. “These advertising efforts were not designed to encourage voting for a particular candidate. Instead, these efforts sought to cast doubt on the outcome of the election after the vote had already been taken,” Thompson said in a letter to Gingrich notifying him of the interview request. “They encouraged members of the public to contact their state officials and pressure them to challenge and overturn the election results. To that end, these ads were intentionally aired in the days leading up to December 14, 2020, the day electors from each state met to vote for president and vice president.” Thompson also wrote that the committee obtained evidence suggesting that Gingrich was involved in the election fraud plot designed to encourage Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress to influence the outcome of the January 6, 2021, joint session of Congress. In an email sent on November 12, 2020, Gingrich asked White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone: “Is there someone responsible for coordinating all the voters? Evans points out that all contested electors must meet [D]Dec. 14 and send ballots to force contests which the House should settle.” Gingrich, according to the letter, also continued to press Meadows on the evening of Jan. 6, 2021, after the attack, asking:[a]there are letters from state legislators about voter disqualification[?]” A look at the January 6 hearings so far — and what’s next Committee investigators spent much of the August congressional recess interviewing witnesses, chasing new topics that emerged during the investigation and tracing information not yet turned over to the committee and people who have so far refused to cooperate. Investigators continued to receive a steady stream of new documents — including a trove of files from the Secret Service and two years’ worth of text messages from Alex Jones that were accidentally turned over to the attorney for the plaintiffs suing the conspiracy theorist. Investigators are also working to recover missing text messages from the Secret Service and the Defense Department after the committee learned earlier this summer that the two agencies deleted communications from the phones of former and current officials considered by the committee to be key witnesses to understanding the answer. in the rebellion. They expect to recover some of the missing information from the carriers — such as timestamps, recipients and senders of texts and calls, and voicemails — but are not sure they will be able to get the actual content of the communications, according to people familiar with the work. committee who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal committee conversations. The committee was particularly interested in probing deeper into the role the Secret Service played around Jan. 6, amid concerns about the agency’s transparency with congressional investigators. “We’re going back to all the relevant people — both motorcades — to find out more details,” said one person involved in the investigation. referring to Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony about what happened as Trump left the Ellipse after his speech that day. Hutchinson testified under oath that these details were relayed to her by Anthony Ornato, a Secret Service agent who also served as Trump’s deputy chief of staff. People involved in the commission’s work say it was only when investigators heard from a “national security” professional working at the White House on the day of the attack, who testified anonymously, that the commission was able to obtain Secret Service radio conversations around Pence. evacuation of the Capitol on January 6. Investigators returned to the Secret Service to demand that the radio traffic be recorded, even though they had requested it a year ago. The committee is still unsure that it has received all the recordings of the channels involved, as there are more than a dozen radio channels on which the Secret Service communicates in the Washington area. Six hours of paralysis: Inside Trump’s failure to act after mob storms Capitol It’s not the first time investigators have confronted the Trump administration’s poor and improper record-keeping practices, and lawmakers on the panel are still interested in determining which documents Meadows allegedly burned in his office fireplace, according to Hutchinson’s testimony. Several people familiar with the committee’s work said the committee continues to investigate Meadows’ handling of the documents. According to these people, there is still information from Hutchinson’s closed-door depositions that has not yet been made public and needs further confirmation. Earlier this month, Meadows made arrangements to return records to the Archives last week following the FBI’s search of Trump’s Florida residence, according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity to share sensitive information. . Meadows is working with the Archives to retrieve records related to various requests from last year. He initially contacted officials at the independent federal agency that maintains government and historical records after they discovered Trump had improperly moved presidential records belonging to the Archives to Mar-a-Lago, according to the people. Lawmakers on the committee are pushing for more information about the unnamed national security official’s testimony presented at the eighth hearing — and are interested in watching the footage of developments at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 recorded by Trump’s national security staff Council in a chat log. While the committee hopes to re-interview Ornato and Robert Engel, Trump’s former chief of staff, there is concern that the two agents are trying to run out the clock. Testimony from Hutchinson and others put Ornato and Engel, who both retained private lawyers, at the center of various allegations about Trump’s actions on Jan. 6. The committee also interviewed some of Trump’s Cabinet secretaries — including Mike Pompeo, Steven Mnuchin, Robert O’Brien and Elaine Chao — about internal conversations after the uprising about invoking the 25th Amendment, which provides the removal of a president due to incapacity, mental health or physical condition. The Attack: Before, During and After Although there was never a vote on the 25th Amendment, the committee wants to show how seriously many Cabinet secretaries who invoked the amendment took it — and how the threat may have affected Trump’s thinking in the days after Jan. 6. “The potential invocation of the 25th Amendment is important because it strengthens the case about how wrong Trump’s behavior has been and is an important part of lawmakers’ ongoing campaign to educate the American people about his wrongdoings,” said former impeachment counsel House of Representatives, Norman. Eisen. While the committee’s work so far has been largely linear and followed a chronological timeline, it is now likely to take on disparate topics. With Republicans poised to retake the House in November, lawmakers on the panel had at one point calculated when is the last possible moment to get the report to the government printing office to make sure it is in the congressional record by January. 3, 2023. “We’re not going to shut down the committee until the last day,” an aide said. The report will likely be written in chapters, and lawmakers are expected to be tasked with overseeing various sections. The committee ultimately was unable to agree on a third editor to write the report, in part because of concerns about partisanship.
title: “The Jan. 6 Committee Asks Former Speaker Newt Gingrich To Sit Down For An Interview Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-17” author: “Kelly Carboni”
The request by committee chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) cited evidence the committee received that Gingrich had been in communication with senior advisers to President Donald Trump, including Jared Kushner and Jason Miller, about television ads promoting false allegations of fraud in the 2020 election. “These advertising efforts were not designed to encourage voting for a particular candidate. Instead, these efforts sought to cast doubt on the outcome of the election after the vote had already been taken,” Thompson said in a letter to Gingrich notifying him of the interview request. “They encouraged members of the public to contact their state officials and pressure them to challenge and overturn the election results. To that end, these ads were intentionally aired in the days leading up to December 14, 2020, the day electors from each state met to vote for president and vice president.” Thompson also wrote that the committee obtained evidence suggesting that Gingrich was involved in the election fraud plot designed to encourage Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress to influence the outcome of the January 6, 2021, joint session of Congress. In an email sent on November 12, 2020, Gingrich asked White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone: “Is there someone responsible for coordinating all the voters? Evans points out that all contested electors must meet [D]Dec. 14 and send ballots to force contests which the House should settle.” Gingrich, according to the letter, also continued to press Meadows on the evening of Jan. 6, 2021, after the attack, asking:[a]there are letters from state legislators about voter disqualification[?]” A look at the January 6 hearings so far — and what’s next Committee investigators spent much of the August congressional recess interviewing witnesses, chasing new topics that emerged during the investigation and tracing information not yet turned over to the committee and people who have so far refused to cooperate. Investigators continued to receive a steady stream of new documents — including a trove of files from the Secret Service and two years’ worth of text messages from Alex Jones that were accidentally turned over to the attorney for the plaintiffs suing the conspiracy theorist. Investigators are also working to recover missing text messages from the Secret Service and the Defense Department after the committee learned earlier this summer that the two agencies deleted communications from the phones of former and current officials considered by the committee to be key witnesses to understanding the answer. in the rebellion. They expect to recover some of the missing information from the carriers — such as timestamps, recipients and senders of texts and calls, and voicemails — but are not sure they will be able to get the actual content of the communications, according to people familiar with the work. committee who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal committee conversations. The committee was particularly interested in probing deeper into the role the Secret Service played around Jan. 6, amid concerns about the agency’s transparency with congressional investigators. “We’re going back to all the relevant people — both motorcades — to find out more details,” said one person involved in the investigation. referring to Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony about what happened as Trump left the Ellipse after his speech that day. Hutchinson testified under oath that these details were relayed to her by Anthony Ornato, a Secret Service agent who also served as Trump’s deputy chief of staff. People involved in the commission’s work say it was only when investigators heard from a “national security” professional working at the White House on the day of the attack, who testified anonymously, that the commission was able to obtain Secret Service radio conversations around Pence. evacuation of the Capitol on January 6. Investigators returned to the Secret Service to demand that the radio traffic be recorded, even though they had requested it a year ago. The committee is still unsure that it has received all the recordings of the channels involved, as there are more than a dozen radio channels on which the Secret Service communicates in the Washington area. Six hours of paralysis: Inside Trump’s failure to act after mob storms Capitol It’s not the first time investigators have confronted the Trump administration’s poor and improper record-keeping practices, and lawmakers on the panel are still interested in determining which documents Meadows allegedly burned in his office fireplace, according to Hutchinson’s testimony. Several people familiar with the committee’s work said the committee continues to investigate Meadows’ handling of the documents. According to these people, there is still information from Hutchinson’s closed-door depositions that has not yet been made public and needs further confirmation. Earlier this month, Meadows made arrangements to return records to the Archives last week following the FBI’s search of Trump’s Florida residence, according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity to share sensitive information. . Meadows is working with the Archives to retrieve records related to various requests from last year. He initially contacted officials at the independent federal agency that maintains government and historical records after they discovered Trump had improperly moved presidential records belonging to the Archives to Mar-a-Lago, according to the people. Lawmakers on the committee are pushing for more information about the unnamed national security official’s testimony presented at the eighth hearing — and are interested in watching the footage of developments at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 recorded by Trump’s national security staff Council in a chat log. While the committee hopes to re-interview Ornato and Robert Engel, Trump’s former chief of staff, there is concern that the two agents are trying to run out the clock. Testimony from Hutchinson and others put Ornato and Engel, who both retained private lawyers, at the center of various allegations about Trump’s actions on Jan. 6. The committee also interviewed some of Trump’s Cabinet secretaries — including Mike Pompeo, Steven Mnuchin, Robert O’Brien and Elaine Chao — about internal conversations after the uprising about invoking the 25th Amendment, which provides the removal of a president due to incapacity, mental health or physical condition. The Attack: Before, During and After Although there was never a vote on the 25th Amendment, the committee wants to show how seriously many Cabinet secretaries who invoked the amendment took it — and how the threat may have affected Trump’s thinking in the days after Jan. 6. “The potential invocation of the 25th Amendment is important because it strengthens the case about how wrong Trump’s behavior has been and is an important part of lawmakers’ ongoing campaign to educate the American people about his wrongdoings,” said former impeachment counsel House of Representatives, Norman. Eisen. While the committee’s work so far has been largely linear and followed a chronological timeline, it is now likely to take on disparate topics. With Republicans poised to retake the House in November, lawmakers on the panel had at one point calculated when is the last possible moment to get the report to the government printing office to make sure it is in the congressional record by January. 3, 2023. “We’re not going to shut down the committee until the last day,” an aide said. The report will likely be written in chapters, and lawmakers are expected to be tasked with overseeing various sections. The committee ultimately was unable to agree on a third editor to write the report, in part because of concerns about partisanship.
title: “The Jan. 6 Committee Asks Former Speaker Newt Gingrich To Sit Down For An Interview Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-28” author: “April Hackett”
The request by committee chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) cited evidence the committee received that Gingrich had been in communication with senior advisers to President Donald Trump, including Jared Kushner and Jason Miller, about television ads promoting false allegations of fraud in the 2020 election. “These advertising efforts were not designed to encourage voting for a particular candidate. Instead, these efforts sought to cast doubt on the outcome of the election after the vote had already been taken,” Thompson said in a letter to Gingrich notifying him of the interview request. “They encouraged members of the public to contact their state officials and pressure them to challenge and overturn the election results. To that end, these ads were intentionally aired in the days leading up to December 14, 2020, the day electors from each state met to vote for president and vice president.” Thompson also wrote that the committee obtained evidence suggesting that Gingrich was involved in the election fraud plot designed to encourage Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress to influence the outcome of the January 6, 2021, joint session of Congress. In an email sent on November 12, 2020, Gingrich asked White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone: “Is there someone responsible for coordinating all the voters? Evans points out that all contested electors must meet [D]Dec. 14 and send ballots to force contests which the House should settle.” Gingrich, according to the letter, also continued to press Meadows on the evening of Jan. 6, 2021, after the attack, asking:[a]there are letters from state legislators about voter disqualification[?]” A look at the January 6 hearings so far — and what’s next Committee investigators spent much of the August congressional recess interviewing witnesses, chasing new topics that emerged during the investigation and tracing information not yet turned over to the committee and people who have so far refused to cooperate. Investigators continued to receive a steady stream of new documents — including a trove of files from the Secret Service and two years’ worth of text messages from Alex Jones that were accidentally turned over to the attorney for the plaintiffs suing the conspiracy theorist. Investigators are also working to recover missing text messages from the Secret Service and the Defense Department after the committee learned earlier this summer that the two agencies deleted communications from the phones of former and current officials considered by the committee to be key witnesses to understanding the answer. in the rebellion. They expect to recover some of the missing information from the carriers — such as timestamps, recipients and senders of texts and calls, and voicemails — but are not sure they will be able to get the actual content of the communications, according to people familiar with the work. committee who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal committee conversations. The committee was particularly interested in probing deeper into the role the Secret Service played around Jan. 6, amid concerns about the agency’s transparency with congressional investigators. “We’re going back to all the relevant people — both motorcades — to find out more details,” said one person involved in the investigation. referring to Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony about what happened as Trump left the Ellipse after his speech that day. Hutchinson testified under oath that these details were relayed to her by Anthony Ornato, a Secret Service agent who also served as Trump’s deputy chief of staff. People involved in the commission’s work say it was only when investigators heard from a “national security” professional working at the White House on the day of the attack, who testified anonymously, that the commission was able to obtain Secret Service radio conversations around Pence. evacuation of the Capitol on January 6. Investigators returned to the Secret Service to demand that the radio traffic be recorded, even though they had requested it a year ago. The committee is still unsure that it has received all the recordings of the channels involved, as there are more than a dozen radio channels on which the Secret Service communicates in the Washington area. Six hours of paralysis: Inside Trump’s failure to act after mob storms Capitol It’s not the first time investigators have confronted the Trump administration’s poor and improper record-keeping practices, and lawmakers on the panel are still interested in determining which documents Meadows allegedly burned in his office fireplace, according to Hutchinson’s testimony. Several people familiar with the committee’s work said the committee continues to investigate Meadows’ handling of the documents. According to these people, there is still information from Hutchinson’s closed-door depositions that has not yet been made public and needs further confirmation. Earlier this month, Meadows made arrangements to return records to the Archives last week following the FBI’s search of Trump’s Florida residence, according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity to share sensitive information. . Meadows is working with the Archives to retrieve records related to various requests from last year. He initially contacted officials at the independent federal agency that maintains government and historical records after they discovered Trump had improperly moved presidential records belonging to the Archives to Mar-a-Lago, according to the people. Lawmakers on the committee are pushing for more information about the unnamed national security official’s testimony presented at the eighth hearing — and are interested in watching the footage of developments at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 recorded by Trump’s national security staff Council in a chat log. While the committee hopes to re-interview Ornato and Robert Engel, Trump’s former chief of staff, there is concern that the two agents are trying to run out the clock. Testimony from Hutchinson and others put Ornato and Engel, who both retained private lawyers, at the center of various allegations about Trump’s actions on Jan. 6. The committee also interviewed some of Trump’s Cabinet secretaries — including Mike Pompeo, Steven Mnuchin, Robert O’Brien and Elaine Chao — about internal conversations after the uprising about invoking the 25th Amendment, which provides the removal of a president due to incapacity, mental health or physical condition. The Attack: Before, During and After Although there was never a vote on the 25th Amendment, the committee wants to show how seriously many Cabinet secretaries who invoked the amendment took it — and how the threat may have affected Trump’s thinking in the days after Jan. 6. “The potential invocation of the 25th Amendment is important because it strengthens the case about how wrong Trump’s behavior has been and is an important part of lawmakers’ ongoing campaign to educate the American people about his wrongdoings,” said former impeachment counsel House of Representatives, Norman. Eisen. While the committee’s work so far has been largely linear and followed a chronological timeline, it is now likely to take on disparate topics. With Republicans poised to retake the House in November, lawmakers on the panel had at one point calculated when is the last possible moment to get the report to the government printing office to make sure it is in the congressional record by January. 3, 2023. “We’re not going to shut down the committee until the last day,” an aide said. The report will likely be written in chapters, and lawmakers are expected to be tasked with overseeing various sections. The committee ultimately was unable to agree on a third editor to write the report, in part because of concerns about partisanship.
title: “The Jan. 6 Committee Asks Former Speaker Newt Gingrich To Sit Down For An Interview Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-19” author: “Gwen Hummer”
The request by committee chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) cited evidence the committee received that Gingrich had been in communication with senior advisers to President Donald Trump, including Jared Kushner and Jason Miller, about television ads promoting false allegations of fraud in the 2020 election. “These advertising efforts were not designed to encourage voting for a particular candidate. Instead, these efforts sought to cast doubt on the outcome of the election after the vote had already been taken,” Thompson said in a letter to Gingrich notifying him of the interview request. “They encouraged members of the public to contact their state officials and pressure them to challenge and overturn the election results. To that end, these ads were intentionally aired in the days leading up to December 14, 2020, the day electors from each state met to vote for president and vice president.” Thompson also wrote that the committee obtained evidence suggesting that Gingrich was involved in the election fraud plot designed to encourage Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress to influence the outcome of the January 6, 2021, joint session of Congress. In an email sent on November 12, 2020, Gingrich asked White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone: “Is there someone responsible for coordinating all the voters? Evans points out that all contested electors must meet [D]Dec. 14 and send ballots to force contests which the House should settle.” Gingrich, according to the letter, also continued to press Meadows on the evening of Jan. 6, 2021, after the attack, asking:[a]there are letters from state legislators about voter disqualification[?]” A look at the January 6 hearings so far — and what’s next Committee investigators spent much of the August congressional recess interviewing witnesses, chasing new topics that emerged during the investigation and tracing information not yet turned over to the committee and people who have so far refused to cooperate. Investigators continued to receive a steady stream of new documents — including a trove of files from the Secret Service and two years’ worth of text messages from Alex Jones that were accidentally turned over to the attorney for the plaintiffs suing the conspiracy theorist. Investigators are also working to recover missing text messages from the Secret Service and the Defense Department after the committee learned earlier this summer that the two agencies deleted communications from the phones of former and current officials considered by the committee to be key witnesses to understanding the answer. in the rebellion. They expect to recover some of the missing information from the carriers — such as timestamps, recipients and senders of texts and calls, and voicemails — but are not sure they will be able to get the actual content of the communications, according to people familiar with the work. committee who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal committee conversations. The committee was particularly interested in probing deeper into the role the Secret Service played around Jan. 6, amid concerns about the agency’s transparency with congressional investigators. “We’re going back to all the relevant people — both motorcades — to find out more details,” said one person involved in the investigation. referring to Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony about what happened as Trump left the Ellipse after his speech that day. Hutchinson testified under oath that these details were relayed to her by Anthony Ornato, a Secret Service agent who also served as Trump’s deputy chief of staff. People involved in the commission’s work say it was only when investigators heard from a “national security” professional working at the White House on the day of the attack, who testified anonymously, that the commission was able to obtain Secret Service radio conversations around Pence. evacuation of the Capitol on January 6. Investigators returned to the Secret Service to demand that the radio traffic be recorded, even though they had requested it a year ago. The committee is still unsure that it has received all the recordings of the channels involved, as there are more than a dozen radio channels on which the Secret Service communicates in the Washington area. Six hours of paralysis: Inside Trump’s failure to act after mob storms Capitol It’s not the first time investigators have confronted the Trump administration’s poor and improper record-keeping practices, and lawmakers on the panel are still interested in determining which documents Meadows allegedly burned in his office fireplace, according to Hutchinson’s testimony. Several people familiar with the committee’s work said the committee continues to investigate Meadows’ handling of the documents. According to these people, there is still information from Hutchinson’s closed-door depositions that has not yet been made public and needs further confirmation. Earlier this month, Meadows made arrangements to return records to the Archives last week following the FBI’s search of Trump’s Florida residence, according to people familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity to share sensitive information. . Meadows is working with the Archives to retrieve records related to various requests from last year. He initially contacted officials at the independent federal agency that maintains government and historical records after they discovered Trump had improperly moved presidential records belonging to the Archives to Mar-a-Lago, according to the people. Lawmakers on the committee are pushing for more information about the unnamed national security official’s testimony presented at the eighth hearing — and are interested in watching the footage of developments at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 recorded by Trump’s national security staff Council in a chat log. While the committee hopes to re-interview Ornato and Robert Engel, Trump’s former chief of staff, there is concern that the two agents are trying to run out the clock. Testimony from Hutchinson and others put Ornato and Engel, who both retained private lawyers, at the center of various allegations about Trump’s actions on Jan. 6. The committee also interviewed some of Trump’s Cabinet secretaries — including Mike Pompeo, Steven Mnuchin, Robert O’Brien and Elaine Chao — about internal conversations after the uprising about invoking the 25th Amendment, which provides the removal of a president due to incapacity, mental health or physical condition. The Attack: Before, During and After Although there was never a vote on the 25th Amendment, the committee wants to show how seriously many Cabinet secretaries who invoked the amendment took it — and how the threat may have affected Trump’s thinking in the days after Jan. 6. “The potential invocation of the 25th Amendment is important because it strengthens the case about how wrong Trump’s behavior has been and is an important part of lawmakers’ ongoing campaign to educate the American people about his wrongdoings,” said former impeachment counsel House of Representatives, Norman. Eisen. While the committee’s work so far has been largely linear and followed a chronological timeline, it is now likely to take on disparate topics. With Republicans poised to retake the House in November, lawmakers on the panel had at one point calculated when is the last possible moment to get the report to the government printing office to make sure it is in the congressional record by January. 3, 2023. “We’re not going to shut down the committee until the last day,” an aide said. The report will likely be written in chapters, and lawmakers are expected to be tasked with overseeing various sections. The committee ultimately was unable to agree on a third editor to write the report, in part because of concerns about partisanship.
