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Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and Vice Chair Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) pb the seventh proceeding held by the Select Committee.

Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) pb a Jan. 6 committee proceeding successful July. Photo: Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images

The House Jan. 6 prime committee connected Thursday released its long-awaited final report, which includes elaborate evidence compiled by the sheet relating to the deadly onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol.

Why it matters: The study provides the clearest look yet astatine what transpired before, during and after one of the astir consequential events successful American history.

What they're saying: "Our state has travel excessively acold to let a defeated President to crook himself into a palmy tyrant by upending our antiauthoritarian institutions, fomenting violence, and, arsenic I saw it, opening the doorway to those successful our state whose hatred and bigotry endanger equality and justness for each Americans," said sheet Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) successful the report's foreword.

The study stated that the sheet estimates that betwixt the November predetermination and the Jan.6 insurrection, former President Trump oregon his interior ellipse "engaged successful astatine slightest 200 evident acts of nationalist oregon backstage outreach, pressure, oregon condemnation, targeting either State legislators oregon State oregon section predetermination administrators, to overturn State predetermination results."
It states that "actions by Donald Trump" were "taken successful enactment of a multi-part conspiracy to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 Presidential election."

Between the lines: Tucked adjacent the extremity of the Jan. 6 committee's study is simply a list of 11 recommendations.

These see transgression and civilian accountability for those accused of misconduct successful the Jan. 6 study and asking asking Congress to make ceremonial mechanics to barroom individuals from aboriginal office, utilizing the 14th Amendment.

The large picture: The study follows the months-long probe into the Capitol riot and preserves the panel's findings earlier Republicans instrumentality power of the House adjacent year and the Jan. 6 sheet dissolves.

The committee voted Monday to notation Trump to the Department of Justice connected astatine slightest 4 transgression charges, including insurrection and obstruction of an authoritative proceeding of Congress.
It besides released transcripts of 34 witnesser testimonies connected Wednesday, including depositions with erstwhile Trump lawyer John Eastman and Trump's acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark.

The backdrop: The sheet had said that it planned to marque the last study nationalist before the extremity of the year, but the scope of the study — and however overmuch it would absorption connected Trump — remained uncertain.

The sheet was besides deliberating however to code a fig of witnesses who refused to comply with subpoenas, including Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence, and several Republican members of Congress.

Worth noting: House Republicans are privately plotting to release their ain 100+ leafage rebuttal successful a bid to formed the prime committee's study arsenic partisan.