Jan. 6 meeting updates: Panel has "information" to consider criminal referrals - Axios

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The House Select Committee convenes a proceeding to Investigate the January 6 onslaught connected Oct. 13. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the vice seat of the Jan. 6 prime committee, said Thursday that the sheet has accusation to see transgression referrals for aggregate individuals.

Driving the news: "We person capable accusation to see transgression referrals ... and urge a scope of legislative proposals to defender against different January 6," Cheney said conscionable earlier the committee voted to subpoena erstwhile President Trump.

The latest: The sheet besides played caller materials from the Secret Service that underscores the agency's precocious cognition of the unit planned for that day.

"Their program is to virtually termination people. Please delight instrumentality this extremity earnestly and analyse further," 1 extremity to the Secret Service from Dec. 26, 2020, said of the Proud Boys' plan, per messages obtained and displayed by the panel.
"By the greeting of Jan 6, It was wide that the Secret Service anticipated violence," Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said during Thursday's meeting.
The Secret Service connected Jan. 6 besides received announcement of online threats directed towards erstwhile Vice President Mike Pence.
A connection astatine 10:39 a.m. connected Jan. 6 said: "...alert astatine 1022 regarding the VP being a dormant antheral walking if helium doesn't bash the close thing," per a connection displayed during the hearing.

Committee says Trump had premeditated triumph plan

The sheet during its Thursday hearing, the past televised gathering before the midterms, and possibly ever, is highlighting grounds that erstwhile President Trump planned earlier the predetermination to state triumph careless of the existent results successful November 2020.

"President Trump knew the truth," but decided "unlawful effort to overturn the election," Vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), said connected Thursday.
“This large lie, President Trump’s effort to person Americans that helium had won the 2020 election, began earlier the predetermination results adjacent came in," Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) said connected Thursday.
"It was intentional, it was premeditated, it was not based connected predetermination results oregon immoderate grounds of existent fraud affecting the results oregon immoderate existent problems with voting machines. It was a program concocted successful advance, to person his supporters that helium won.”

Ex-officials attest Trump privately acknowledged predetermination loss

Cassidy Hutchinson, a apical adjutant to erstwhile White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testified to the committee that Trump was irate aft the Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit challenging predetermination results.

"I don't privation radical to cognize we lost, this is embarrassing ... I don't privation radical to cognize that we lost," Trump told Meadows, Hutchinson recalled.

An email from the Secret Service obtained by the committee besides showed Trump's expanding vexation implicit losing an elections lawsuit astatine the Supreme Court.

"Just fyi. POTUS is pissed - breaking quality - Supreme Court denied his instrumentality suit. He is livid now...," the email from Dec. 11, 2020 read.

Stephen K. Bannon, a erstwhile Trump run manager and White House adviser, per audio days earlier the election, said: "If Biden's winning, Trump is gonna bash immoderate brainsick shit."

Footage from Danish documentary filmmakers shows Trump subordinate Roger Stone saying up of the predetermination that Trump should state triumph portion the effect is “still up successful the air.”
The footage besides shows Stone saying, “F**k the voting, let’s get consecutive to the violence,” and, “it’s clip to commencement smashing pumpkins if you cognize what I mean.”

The large picture: "The cardinal origin of January 6 was 1 man: Donald Trump, who galore others followed," Cheney said connected Thursday

"None of this would person happened without him, helium was personally and substantially progressive successful each of it."
Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), during opening remarks connected Thursday, besides said that the bulk of grounds utilized by the committee came from Republicans.
"When you look backmost astatine what has travel retired done this committee’s work, the astir striking information is that this grounds comes astir wholly from Republicans," helium said.

Committee warns astir aboriginal threats successful upcoming elections

Cheney issued a informing with a look toward November, the 2024 predetermination and beyond: “Our institutions lone clasp erstwhile men and women of bully religion marque them hold, careless of the governmental cost. We person nary warrant that these men and women volition beryllium successful spot adjacent time.”

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Editor's note: This communicative has been updated with further details.

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