The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot resumes its hearings Monday morning with live witnesses, building on a prime-time hearing last week that started to detail how former president Donald Trump pursued his false claims about the November 2020 election even after a host of officials advised him there was no fraud.
The session on Monday delves deeper into what it calls "the big lie," Trump's false claims of voter fraud that fuelled his relentless effort to overturn the 2020 election and led a mob of his supporters to lay siege to the U.S. Capitol.
The committee is set to hear testimony from Chris Stirewalt, a former Fox News political editor closely involved in election night coverage who stood by the decision to declare Arizona as being won by Biden. In subsequent weeks, Fox broadcast several claims of electoral fraud by Trump surrogates including lawyer Rudy Guiliani.
Stirewalt, in an essay published on The Dispatch early Monday on why he's testifying, said the stakes for the hearing are significant.
"What Trump and his gang did in the 2020 election and its aftermath is a big historical moment for our country, far bigger than the Watergate scandal we still discuss 50 years later," he wrote.
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