WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 23: A video featuring Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) is played during the fifth hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on June 23, 2022 in Washington, DC. The bipartisan committee, which has been gathering evidence for almost a year related to the January 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol, is presenting its findings in a series of televised hearings. On January 6, 2021, supporters of former President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol Building during an attempt to disrupt a congressional vote to confirm the electoral college win for President Joe Biden.
Jan. 6 committee schedules last-minute hearing for Tuesday
The panel has spent the last few weeks building a case around former President Donald Trump and his influence on the Jan. 6 insurrection.
By Ximena Bustillo/NPR and WITF Staff
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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 23: A video featuring Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) is played during the fifth hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on June 23, 2022 in Washington, DC. The bipartisan committee, which has been gathering evidence for almost a year related to the January 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol, is presenting its findings in a series of televised hearings. On January 6, 2021, supporters of former President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol Building during an attempt to disrupt a congressional vote to confirm the electoral college win for President Joe Biden.
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol will hold its next public hearing on Tuesday, June 28 at 1 pm. ET “to present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony.”
The committee had been expected to take a brief hiatus until the week of July 11.
This will be the sixth hearing for the Democratic-led committee, which has spent the last few weeks building a case around former President Donald Trump and his influence on the Jan. 6 insurrection. The panel’s most recent hearing — on June 23 — focused on Trump’s pressure on the Department of Justice to help him overturn the 2020 election.
Earlier this month, in her opening statements at the fifth House January 6th Select Committee hearing, Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney teased proof that some of her GOP House colleagues sought “pardons for their conduct” from former President Trump in the days following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The panel wrapped up last Thursday’s hearing with a montage of pre-recorded testimonies from former White House officials that supported the committee vice chair’s claim.
According to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, multiple Republican U.S. House members asked for a pardon, including Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Mo Brooks (R-AL), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Louie Gohmert (R-TX).
The last name she mentioned in her testimony was Pennsylvania U.S. House Rep. Scott Perry.
“Mr. Perry asked for a pardon, too,” Hutchinson said.
When asked if Perry talked to her directly, she responded, “Yes, he did.”
This contradicts denials from Perry that he ever requested a pardon. Following Hutchinson’s sworn deposition, he referred to the situation as a “false pardon narrative.”
“I stand by my statement that I never sought a Presidential pardon for myself or other Members of Congress,” a Perry spokesman wrote in a statement. “At no time did I speak with Miss Hutchinson, a White House scheduler, nor any White House staff about a pardon for myself or any other Member of Congress — this never happened.”
Perry was a central figure in the hearing, due to his previously reported text message and email exchanges with Meadows, advocating for election investigations based on debunked claims of fraud.
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