Donald Trump latest news – Fox News won’t air Jan 6 hearing, Primetime coverage goes to

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.

More than 800 people across the US have been charged in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, which left officers bloodied and sent lawmakers into hiding, and federal authorities continue to make new arrests practically every week.

The charges against members of the angry pro-Trump mob range from low-level misdemeanours for those who only entered the Capitol to felony seditious conspiracy charges against far-right extremists.

It’s the largest prosecution in the history of the Justice Department, whose leader, Attorney General Merrick Garland, has vowed to hold accountable “all January 6th perpetrators, at any level.”

The committee is set to hold two hearings in primetime at 8pm on Thursday 9 June and on 23 June. In between the primetime hearings, additional public sessions will be conducted at 10am on 13 June, 15 June, 16 June, and 21 June.

The hearings are expected to outline how Donald Trump and some of his associates violated the law as they tried to overturn the 2020 election.

Gustaf Kilander has more:

An aide of Mike Pence raised concerns about threats to his security just a day before supporters of Donald Trump stormed into the Capitol, according to a report.

Marc Short, chief of staff to Mr Pence at the time, called his lead secret service agent, Tom Giebels, into his office and told him that Mr Trump planned to publicly turn against the vice president for refusing to contest the electoral vote tally, and there could be a security risk to Mr Pence because of it, according to a report in The New York Times

.This happened just a day before the deadly Capitol riots during which the former vice president narrowly avoided the crowd of Trump supporters.

Fox News will be the only major network not to air the 6 January committee’s first primetime hearing this Thursday night, it will be instead showing it on an “as news warrants” basis during its packed prime time shows.

According to a press release on Monday, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum will anchor coverage of the hearings on Fox Business Network instead.