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article. the new york times writes "the house committee investigating the jan six attack is planning thursday to present a sweeping summation of its case against former president donald j. trump , at what could be its final public hearing seeking to reveal new evidence about mr. trump's state of mind and his central role in the effort to overturn the 2020 election." armed with a new witness interviews and unreleased footage of the violence of january 6, 2020 one, the panel plans to argue that mr. trump lies about widespread voter fraud inspired far right extremists and election deniers that present a continuing threat to american democracy.

25% of americans said the house investigation of the event that the u.s. capitol helped strengthen american democracy while 34% said it helped weekend democracy. another 35% feel the investigation has had no impact on american democracy. at the same time, 50% of americans believe our system of government is basically sound and that it marks a return to

pre-2021 levels such as in 52% answering the question that american democracy was sound in november 2018. i will go a little further down. the hearings themselves. the monmouth university polling found trust in the house january 6 committee has remained stable since the public hearing started. 34 for resent has a -- percent has a lot of trust of the committee is conducting a fair investigation, similar to 35% in august and 34% in june. 24% currently trust committee fairness a little. 39% do not trust it at all.

a lot of trust. a majority of americans, 58% think the committee should resume public hearings. 58% say it should wrap up the investigation as soon as possible. 11% wanted wrapped up in the next year. again, that is the monmouth university polling that came out at the end of september. regarding faith in american systems and the impact of the january 6 committee. we have with us today hugo lowell, a congressional reporter at the guardian that will help us preview the hearing that will be later. good morning, hugo, how are you? guest: great, how are you? host: what are your thoughts? do you think this will be the final hearing? do you think that there still

may be more public comment, public statements the committee will want to make later this year? guest: that's a good question. i think the committee itself is not sure. they are billing this hearing today as the final investigative hearing. we will certainly get another hearing around the report and as the recommendations the committee will make to try to make recommendations about how to prevent another january 6 from happening. but, members and at council on the committee are treating this hearing as the final investigative one where they will show new things they have uncovered, new pieces of information, new evidence that appears to connect donald trump to january 6. host: what new threats are revelations or you expecting today? we have had so many questions about the documentary that

follows roger stone, ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas. what do you think could be news we hear later today? guest: the committee said yesterday, and in my reporting over the previous weeks, they want to step back and take a wider look at threats to democracy as a whole in today's hearing. they want to chart how a lot of the ideas and strategies about overturning the 2020 election started in election day, 2020 20, then, progress through january 6 and continues now past january 6. in order to illustrate that, they want to use several different pieces of evidence. they will rely on six to eight minutes of documentary film evidence shot by a danish film crew that followed roger stone

in the days and weeks leading up to election day and around january 6. they want to bring in people like michael flynn, trumps former national security advisor that was involved in this contentious 18th of december 2020 meeting where the participants were talking about seizing voting machines. they also want to focus on people like steve bannon, the top strategist for trump-based at the willett hotel and talking about using violence and other extrajudicial means to turn the election. they want to chart the progress of this. then they will come to january 6 and say, this was all through trump operatives. that clear and present danger continues to this day. host: what about the secret service? there has been a subplot of the january 6 hearings.

what the secret service members that were part of the presidents detail thought, what they told him. we know that some of their phones had been seized. records. do you think some of that might be shared today? guest: it is not clear how much the secret service will be a major theme today. certainly, there will be some revelations and new details about the kind of communications being sent between agents on january 6. as you say, this has been a major issue at a difficulty for the committee. when they tried to get text messages from january 6, they found that the data had been wiped pretty calm principally. there was no icloud -- wiped pretty calm principally. there was no icloud data where the texts were backed up to the internet.

but they got thousands of communications through microsoft teams and south and the females through the secret service. -- and thousands of emails through the secret service. especially with respect to how the secret service was deliberately defying donald trump's request to go to the capitol. by the time his speech ended january 6, the proud boys had already broken into the capitol. the secret service knew this would be a problem for donald trump to try to join them. i think the text messages show to some extent the surprise at donald trump's request. host: what happens after today's hearing? we know at some point there should be a written report, right? give us what do you expect to the rest of the committee. guest: after the hearing today we will get new evidence. then all of the effort will get

focused on producing the final report. it's not clear we will even get an interim report anymore, from what it sounds like. the committee counsel and staff has been investigating this for 19 months. they will go put together a several hundred page report. it will have some elements that are audiovisual. it will have some links. it's not clear how they want to do it. it sounds like a digital report, ultimately. that will probably come out towards the end of the year. if they find anything and they are not covering new information between the end of the hearing and the publication report, it's possible they do a separate hearing or a separate event to the rounding that. but the expectation is, they will concentrate on the report and when they make their recommendations, hold another hearing. host: my final question before we let you go, hugo, how do you expect to the outcome of the midterm election to affect the

committee? we know that if republicans take control in january, the committee likely goes away. what type of pressure will be on the committee depending on the outcome of the election? guest: i think that's right. this committee has always known it is up against a deadline, the end of the congress. they have always known they have to get this thing wrapped up by december, or even early january. that's how congress operates. investigations do not -- it's like with ethics investigations on capitol hill. i think the committee is very knowledgeable. it does not expect anything to change. so, they will wrap up their investigation by the end of the air. then, the new congress, let's say -- republicans may have their own january 6 investigation. i think it is more likely they do not focus on january 6. because, it is just not as politically interesting to them

in a way it has been for democrats. so, it may well be that this is the final january 6 investigation that congress ever does. host: thank you for breaking it down for us. again, that was hugo lowell, a congressional reporter for the guardian. i will see you this afternoon. thank you again for joining us this morning. "small stocks big money" -- >> live now to capitol hill. we are five minutes away from the january 6 committee holding its ninth and possibly final hearing. there are no witnesses testifying in parson -- person today, but we expected to hear from every member of the committee. in the eight prior hearings members of the public heard from former trump administration officials, documentary filmmakers, state elected leaders and former members of extremist groups like the oath keepers. the committee presented previously unseen video and audio of the capitol attack,

taped depositions, text messages, and emails from members of president trump's inner staff. we could see that information again today as well as new information. if you missed any of the previous hearings or would like to watch them again, visit our web page at c-span.org/january c-span.org -- c-span.org/january6. live gavel-to-gavel coverage here on c-span2. -- on c-span.

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