At 8 p.m., the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack
plans to start unveiling the most complete and visceral dissection to
date of the mob of Donald Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol
in an attempt to overthrow the results of a democratic election.

Drawing on months of interviews and thousands of documents, the
committee has thus far kept most of its findings close to its vest — so
we expect a lot of new information and some of the most terrifying video
from that day that hasn’t been shown to the public yet.

As one committee aide told reporters in a background call on Wednesday,
they see their job as showing “that the violence of Jan. 6 was the
result of a coordinated, multistep effort to overturn the results of the
2020 election and stop the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe
Biden.”

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