What time is the hearing on Thursday, January 6 live? More witnesses and how to watch

The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol will continue its televised hearings on Thursday.

So far, the hearings have repeatedly shown how former President Donald Trump followed through on his claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, even as advisers and allies told him he had lost.

During the most recent hearing on Tuesday, state election officials testified about the pressure they faced after the election to try to invalidate Joe Biden’s victory.

Last week, the panel presented evidence on Trump’s efforts to persuade his Vice President, Mike Pence, to deviate from his ceremonial role and object as Congress counted electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021.

On Thursday, the committee hearing will hear about Trump’s pressure on the Justice Department in his final days in office.

The panel will be told that Trump was “the driving force behind the effort to corrupt the Justice Department,” the committee’s chair, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, said.

The fifth hearing is scheduled for Thursday, June 23 at 3 pm ET.

Who are the witnesses?

Three witnesses are scheduled to testify at Thursday’s hearing, the committee said. Is it so:

• Jeffrey A. Rosen, Former Acting Attorney General
• Richard Donoghue, former Acting Deputy Attorney General
• Steven Engel, former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel

Rosen took over the Justice Department after the resignation of Bill Barr, who in videotaped remarks played by the committee last week called Trump’s claims of fraud in the 2020 election “nonsense.”

Rosen and other top Justice Department officials later faced pressure from Trump to declare the 2020 election results “corrupt.”

“Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the congressional Republicans,” Trump told Rosen in a December 2020 phone conversation, according to notes taken by Donoghue.

Then, in a showdown in the Oval Office three days before Jan. 6, 2021, Trump contemplated replacing Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, an assistant US attorney general who wanted to defend Trump’s voter fraud claims. Both Rosen and Donoghue warned that they would resign.

“The president said, ‘suppose I do this, suppose I replace him, Jeff Rosen, with him, Jeff Clark. What are you doing?’ And I said, ‘Sir, I would resign immediately. There’s no way I’m serving under this guy, Jeff Clark,'” Donoghue said in anticipated testimony by Thompson before Thursday’s hearing.

How to watch the January 6 committee hearing

The January 6 committee is livestreaming their hearings so viewers can watch in real time on their website or YouTube channel.

Several major broadcast and cable networks, including ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC, have been airing the hearings live, so viewers can also tune in to watch the hearings there.