Proud Boys face new Jan 6 charges – follow live

Among the most high-profile witnesses who have spoken to the 6 January committee behind closed doors are Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, both of whom are said to have appeared voluntarily and answered questions for several hours.

Reports are now saying that videotaped excerpts from their testimony could be aired during the panel’s televised hearings, a move that would surely infuriate the former president whatever Ms Trump and Mr Kushner had to say.

Read more on Mr Kushner’s testimony below from Johanna Chisholm.

Having blocked the creation of an nonpartisan, independent 9/11 commission-style panel to investigate the 6 January attack, Republican leaders in the House of Representatives have consistently derided the select committee set up instead as a partisan sham. With the panel’s hearings about to be televised as primetime viewing, Eric Garcia describes how the party is working on ways to scramble the agenda:

Adam Kinzinger, one of the two Republicans on the 6 January select committee, has made clear his contempt for Fox News after the network announced it will not be airing the panel’s hearings live, instead relegating them to the less-watched Fox Business.

Tucker Carlson, whose show clashes with the hearings but will air as usual, is boasting about his supposedly more accurate rendering of the events of the riot. He has repeatedly suggested the event was far less serious than claimed and/or that it was staged by federal agents as a pretext to round up conservative “patriots” in a gigantic Guantanamo-esque ideological incarceration programme.

As several Proud Boys leaders face a new seditious conspiracy indictment, the 6 January committee is preparing to hear testimony from a filmmaker, Nick Quested, who was embedded with the group in advance of the insurrection and captured footage of a meeting the night before between Enrique Tarrio and the leader of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes. The video, shot in an underground parking garage, does not clearly record what the two men discussed, but their identities and the fact that they met are clear.

Read more on Mr Quested’s upcoming appearance below.

The five Proud Boys indicted yesterday for numerous offences in the Capitol riot face nine charges each, with one of them also charged with robbery of personal property of the US.

The full indictment, available in PDF format here, spells out what it refers to as “the conspiracy”, whose purpose it says “was to oppose the lawful transfer of presidential power by force, by opposing the authority of the Government of the United States and by preventing, hindering, or delaying by force the execution of the laws governing the transfer of power.”

Alex Woodward has more on the case below.

Nearly a year since its inception, the House committee investigating the 6 January attack on the US Capitol will go public with its findings starting this week as lawmakers hope to show the American public how democracy came to the brink of disaster.

The series of hearings that will take place over the next several weeks begin with a prime-time session on Thursday night in which the nine-member panel plans to give an overview of its 11-month investigation.

More than 1,000 people have been interviewed by the panel, and only snippets of that testimony have been revealed to the public, mostly through court filings.

Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the hearing:

Republican voters are choosing a nominee for New Mexico governor from a field of five candidates in Tuesday’s primary election campaign dominated by concerns about the economy, violent crime and security at the southern US border.

The winner of today’s GOP contest will take on incumbent Democratic governor Michelle Lujan Grisham as she seeks a second term after guiding New Mexico through the coronavirus pandemic with aggressive public health restrictions and a surge in state government spending linked to record-setting oil production.

A slate of Republican US House members in heavily Democratic California are facing primary challengers today in races that will help determine control of Congress.

No incumbents appear at risk of losing their primary, but the districts will be among the country’s marquee races in November.

ICYMI: Donald Trump last week made an endorsement in Arizona’s crucial senate primary, choosing Peter Thiel-backed candidate Blake Masters – and as with other Trump endorsements, now the attention is on, the chosen candidate’s past words are coming back to haunt him.

The Daily Beast reports that in an April interview on a right-wing podcast, Mr Masters opined that “It’s people in Chicago, St. Louis shooting each other. Very often, you know, Black people, frankly. And the Democrats don’t want to do anything about that.”

Read more on Mr Masters and the Trump endorsement below.

ICYMI: In an interview yesterday, Liz Cheney offered CBS News a flavour of the upcoming 6 January committee hearings – and her words indicate that the evidence to be unveiled is grievous indeed.

Asked if the events that led to the riot amounted to a conspiracy, she replied that she does. remarking that she was troubled by “how broad this multi-pronged effort was”.

She also accused house minority leader Kevin McCarthy of sticking by Donald Trump out of “craven political calculation” and accused him of “lying about what happened on 6 January”.

Watch a clip of her remarks below.