How to Watch the Jan. 6 Hearing Today Online & on TV

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Getty Supporters of US President Donald Trump enter the US Capitol's Rotunda on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC.

Today’s Jan. 6 hearing would likely have been the final presentation of findings from the House Select Committee. However, it has been delayed due to Hurricane Ian.

It was scheduled today, Wednesday, September 28, 2022, at 1 p.m. The broadcast is expected to last two hours, the committee announced on its schedule. A new date has not yet been set.

Read on for everything you need to know about how and where to watch the hearings live online and on TV, and how to catch replays.

Here’s what you need to know:


The Hearing Will Be Broadcast on Major News Networks & Will Be Streaming Online

The House Select Committee is streaming its hearing broadcasts live online. You can watch the hearings here. The broadcast will begin once the hearing starts, which is scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday, September 28, 2022.

It can be watched live on YouTube. The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol is streaming the hearings live on its YouTube channel. C-SPAN is also streaming the hearings live on its YouTube channel. The YouTube channels also include replays of past hearings, and will include a replay of today’s hearing after it airs if you can’t catch it live on Wednesday.

The live TV broadcast will also be aired on TV by major news networks including NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and MSNBC, according to TV Guide listings.

CNN reported that the committee may have chosen not to air Wednesday’s hearing during a primetime TV spot because they believed Fox News was more likely to air the hearing during its afternoon coverage.

“In the past, Fox News does play our hearings if the hearing is in the daytime,” Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren told CNN. “So that’s a factor in reaching an audience that is not watching CNN.”


The Hearing Wednesday Will Include New Footage From the Events of Jan. 6, 2021

The committee is keeping the details of what it will present secret, including the names of key witnesses, CNN reported. Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California told CNN that this hearing, like past hearings, will be thematic. But he said he expects the evidence presented to be “more sweeping” than in previous hearings.

“I think it’ll be potentially more sweeping than some of the other hearings, but it too will be in a very thematic – it will tell the story about a key element of Donald Trump’s plot to overturn the election,” Schiff told CNN.

The hearing will include “substantial footage” from the date of the insurrection that has not previously been aired during the public hearings and “significant witness testimony” that has not yet been presented in hearings, chairman of the committee, Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, told CNN.

After the hearing, the committee will continue its work on the final report of its findings, CNN reported. The report is expected to be finalized by the end of the year, but likely not before the November midterms, sources told CNN.

Schiff told CNN that he thinks the report should include a criminal referral for former President Donald Trump. But, he said that if the committee does make a criminal referral, it should be made by a unanimous decision.

“It will be certainly, I think, my recommendation, my feeling that we should make referrals, but we will get to a decision as a committee, and we will all abide by that decision, and I will join our committee members if they feel differently,” Schiff told CNN.


Catch Up on the Highlights From Past Hearings

Cassidy Hutchinson was an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows who entered the spotlight in a surprise January 6 hearing June 28, 2022. Read more about her here.

Hutchinson testified to U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack about conversations related to January 6 she said she overheard, recounting what she described as a tirade by then-President Donald Trump. She testified he did not care that protesters had weapons because they weren’t there to hurt him, according to her testimony. Her testimony was played during primetime coverage of the hearings on Thursday, July 21, 2022.

“I overheard the president say something to the effect of ‘I don’t f-ing care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me. Take the f-ing mags away. Let my people in, they can march to the Capitol from here. Let the people in, take the f-ing mags away.”

Hutchinson testified that Trump was enraged that he was being driven back to the White House after his speech earlier that day, where he told protesters to “fight like hell.” She said he lunged for the steering wheel to grab it from Secret Service head agent Robert “Bobby” Engel. Read more about him here.

“I’m the effing president,” Hutchinson heard Trump say, according to her testimony.

Hutchinson further said that when Meadows learned about violence at the Capitol, he “almost had a lack of reaction.”

The June 28 hearing was the sixth the committee held to present evidence surrounding the U.S. Capitol insurrection. The committee said the hearing June 28 was scheduled “to present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony.” The committee had initially planned to take a brief hiatus until the week of July 11.

Federal Judge J. Michael Luttig had strong words for the House select committee at its hearing June 16, 2022, saying that he would never have let Pence overturn the election. Read more about him here.

“I would have laid my body across the road before I would have let a Vice President overturn an election,” Luttig testified.

Twitter users latched onto the biting statement.

“Luttig says he would’ve ‘laid my body across the road before I would’ve let the VP overturn the 2020 election,’ Scott Dworkin wrote on Twitter. “I felt that.”

Historian Heather Cox Richardson commented on the significance of Luttig’s testimony due to his reputation among conservatives.

“Luttig says the fake electors had no legal authority,” she wrote on Twitter. “Luttig is incredibly highly regarded in conservative circles. So this is very significant testimony.”

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