Day 1 of the Jan. 6 hearings: Striking unseen footage, gruesome testimony

The path forward promises to clearly link former President Donald Trump with the insurrection that nearly managed to keep him in office. [View in browser]( [Image]( June 10, 2022 JAN. 6 HEARINGS RECAP: DAY 1 [Alternate text] On Thursday night, in a live primetime hearing, the House Jan. 6 committee [finally began to lay out](Why%20the%20first%20Jan.%206%20committee%20hearing%20doesn't%20bode%20well%20for%20Trump) the findings of its 11-month investigation in public. The stakes were high, as was the bar that the committee's own members set for the sort of explosive evidence that would be on display. Over the [course of two hours](, those expectations were surpassed — and the path forward promises to clearly link former President Donald Trump with the insurrection that nearly managed to keep him in office. Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and ranking member Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., laid out the course of the hearings over the next month. We'll be shown more videos from the hundreds of hours of depositions that the committee has taken, demonstrating that Trump's team knew he lost. We'll be shown how deep the plots to pressure Vice President Mike Pence and state legislatures to reject President Joe Biden’s victory went. And we'll hear new details about how the Jan. 6 meeting in Congress was targeted as the key moment in the plot to reverse the election's results. What's more, we'll see firsthand how [people around Trump knew]( what he was doing was wrong — and how he ignored every single one of them. There's a lot of speculation about whether the hearings will change anyone's minds or maybe spur the Justice Department to finally act against Trump. What's clear already, though, is that these hearings, like Trump tweeted ahead of Jan. 6, "will be wild." — Hayes Brown HEARING HIGHLIGHTS [Alternate text] [Joyce Vance]( [Exposing the truth about Trump's 'willful blindness']( [Kayleigh McEnany]( [Frank Figliuzzi]( [The shadow of the 25th Amendment looms very large]( [Michael A. Cohen]( [Republicans sought pardons for trying to overturn the election]( [Ja'han Jones]( [Why Cheney's moving exchange with Officer Edwards matters]( [Hayes Brown]( [Congressional hearings are much better without Congress]( MORE FROM MSNBC [Alternate text]   MSNBC presents the final episode of "Devil's Advocate: The Mostly True Story of Giovanni Di Stefano," a three-part original series from Sky that follows the famed attorney's journey to becoming a disgraced conman. The series explores Di Stefano's rise as a lawyer representing the who's-who of the criminal world — from Charles Manson to Saddam Hussein — and the epic investigation that unveiled identity he hid behind schemes, deception and lies. Watch the third and final episode of a"Devil's Advocate: The Mostly True Story of Giovanni Di Stefano" Sunday at 10 p.m. ET on MSNBC or stream it on Peacock.   [Privacy]( [Unsubscribe](listvar=sub_daily)