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             'Stay tuned' for new evidence against Trump in July hearings



            By HOPE YEN                                                                            began.                       leads  will  lead  to  new  tes-
            WASHINGTON (AP) — More                                                                 The  committee  also  has  timony."
            evidence  is  emerging  in                                                             been  reviewing  new  doc-   In  Hutchinson's  appear-
            the  House's  Jan.  6  investi-                                                        umentary  film  footage  of  ance  before  the  commit-
            gation  that  lends  support                                                           Trump's  final  months  in  of-  tee  last  week,  Hutchinson
            to  recent  testimony  that                                                            fice,  including  interviews  painted a picture of Trump
            President  Donald  Trump                                                               with  Trump  and  members  as  an  angry,  defiant  presi-
            wanted  to  join  an  angry                                                            of his family.               dent who was trying to let
            mob  that  marched  to  the                                                            Kinzinger,  in  a  television  armed supporters avoid se-
            Capitol  where  they  rioted,                                                          interview,  declined  to  dis-  curity  screenings  at  a  rally
            a committee member said                                                                close  the  new  information  on  the  morning  of  Jan.  6
            Sunday.                                                                                he referred to and did not  to protest his 2020 election
            "There will be way more in-                                                            say  who  had  provided  it.  defeat  to  Democrat  Joe
            formation and stay tuned,"                                                             He said many more details  Biden.
            said  Rep.  Adam  Kinzinger,                                                           emerged  after  last  week's  Legal  experts  have  said
            R-Ill.                                                                                 testimony   from    former  Cassidy's  testimony  is  po-
            The  committee  has  been    Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., speaks as the House select commit-  White  House  aide  Cassidy  tentially  problematic  for
                                         tee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol continues
            intensifying  its  yearlong  in-  to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol   Hutchinson  and  that  noth-  Trump  as  federal  prosecu-
            vestigation  into  the  attack   in Washington, June 23, 2022.                         ing had changed the com-     tors  investigate  potential
            on Jan. 6, 2021, and Trump's                                          Associated Press  mittee's  confidence  in  her  criminal wrongdoing.
            efforts to overturn the 2020                                                           credibility.                 "There could be more than
            election.  Rep.  Liz  Cheney,  including  against  Trump,  Trump  illegally  directed  a  "There's  information  I  can't  one  criminal  referral,"  said
            R-Wyo.,  the  committee's  could follow.                  violent  mob  toward  the  say  yet,"  he  said.  "We  cer-  Cheney in an interview that
            vice  chair,  is  making  clear  At least two more hearings  Capitol on Jan. 6, and then  tainly would say that Cassi-  aired Sunday. She said the
            that  criminal  referrals  to  are  scheduled  this  month  failed to take quick action  dy Hutchinson has testified  committee will decide later
            the  Justice  Department,  that  aim  to  show  how  to  stop  the  attack  once  it  under  oath,  we  find  her  in  the  process  whether  to
                                                                                                   credible, and anybody that  proceed.
                                                                                                   wants  to  cast  disparage-  Cassidy  also  recounted  a
                                                                                                   ments  on  that,  who  were  conversation with Tony Or-
                                                                                                   firsthand  present,  should  nato, Trump's deputy chief
                                                                                                   also testify under oath and  of staff for operations, who,
                                                                                                   not  through  anonymous  she  testified,  said  Trump
                                                                                                   sources."                    later grabbed at the steer-
                                                                                                   In a separate interview, an-  ing  wheel  of  the  presiden-
                                                                                                   other  committee  member,  tial  SUV  when  the  Secret
                                                                                                   Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.,  Service  refused  to  let  him
                                                                                                   said: "We are following ad-  go to the Capitol after the
                                                                                                   ditional leads. I think those  rally.q
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