An estimated 20 million people watched Thursday night's hearing of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
The figures released Friday by the Nielsen Company include viewers from 12 television networks that aired the rare primetime hearing, including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, and FOX Business Network.The hearing, which aired from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the U.S.
While the basics of attack on the Capitol are well known, the committee is trying to tell the story of how it happened, and how to prevent it from ever happening again, for history. The made-for-TV hearings — including video of police officers being brutally beaten and right-wing extremists leading the crowds into the Capitol — come as some have tried to downplay the violence.
Thompson laid out the committee's initial findings that Trump led a"sprawling, multi-step conspiracy aimed at overturning the presidential election" and the insurrection was a culmination of that"attempted coup." The panel's vice chairwoman, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, called it a"sophisticated seven-part plan."
The panel also showed video testimony from Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, who spoke to the committee in April. Ivanka Trump told the panel that Barr's declaration"affected my perspective."Another Trump adviser, Jason Miller, told the panel that campaign advisors had told the president in"clear terms" that he had lost the election.This isn't easy to watch The committee showed new, graphic video from the insurrection, moving through a timeline of the violence.
An officer overwhelmed and injured Capitol Riot Investigation U.S. Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards testifies as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds… "They were throwing up — I saw friends with blood all over their faces," said Edwards, who has still not returned to duty in the first responders unit where she worked then."I was slipping in people's blood. I was catching people as they fell. It was carnage. It was chaos."
The panel showed video testimony with a witness named Jeremy Bertino, a member of the Proud Boys, who said the group's membership"tripled, probably" after Trump's comment.
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