What to Know About the Televised Capitol Riot Hearings, Including How to Watch

Samuel Corum/Getty Rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021

The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol held its first public hearing on June 9, revealing what representatives have learned about the moments leading up to — and during — the attacks.

Night one of the hearing featured new revelations about the events leading up to the attacks and how former President Donald Trump and his allies responded.

Among the testimonies shown during night one were pre-recorded interviews with Trump's elder daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner.

More than anything, though, the goal of the hearing will be to reveal the American public what the committee has discovered about former President Trump's role in the events of that day.

As President Joe Biden told reporters on on June 9, for many Americans, this will be the first look at the committee's findings. "There's a lot of questions — who's responsible, who's involved," Biden said, per CBS News. "I'm not going to make a judgment on that, but I just want you to know that we're going to probably be, a lot of Americans are going to be seeing for the first time some of the detail that occurred."

Here's more about what to know about the ongoing hearings.

How to watch the Capitol riot hearings?

The hearings will be streamed live on most major outlets, with the exception of Fox News, which will carry coverage of the hearings on Fox Business.

According to a statement sent by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, the committee "will present previously unseen material documenting January 6th, receive witness testimony, and provide the American people an initial summary of its findings about the coordinated, multi-step effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and prevent the transfer of power. The committee will also preview additional hearings."

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When are the Capitol riot hearings scheduled for?

Following the hearing on June 9, the next hearings are scheduled for June 13 at 10 a.m. ET, June 15 at 10 a.m. ET, and June 16 at 1 p.m. ET, per USA Today. The dates for the remaining hearings have yet to be announced. According to The Washington Post, there could be as many as eight hearings in June with a final hearing taking place in September.

What to expect from the Capitol riot hearings?

Unreleased video footage — including of interviews conducted with Trump allies and family members like Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. — are expected to be shown during the hearing, and could shed light on how those in the White House that day handled the attacks as they unfolded.

The first night of the hearings included testimonies from two witnesses: U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards and documentarian Nick Quested.

Edwards was the first law enforcement officer injured when rioters stormed the Capitol grounds. After suffering a traumatic brain injury, her injuries "have prevented her from returning to her previous assignment as a member of the USCP First Responder Unit," the committee said in its statement.

Quested, meanwhile, is a filmmaker who, along with a crew, was at the Capitol filming a documentary about the Proud Boys. According to the committee, he was a witness to "the movements around the Capitol that morning, the first moments of violence against U.S. Capitol Police, and the chaos that ensued."

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What might be revealed during the Capitol riot hearings?

In the days leading up to the primetime hearing, members of the bipartisan committee have hinted that shocking revelations may come to light.

In an interview with Washington Post Live on Monday, Democrat Jamie Raskin said the committee was "going to tell the story of a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election and block the transfer of power."

"The select committee has found evidence about a lot more than incitement here, and we're gonna be laying out the evidence about all of the actors who were pivotal to what took place on Jan. 6," Raskin added.

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican on the panel, has also used the word "conspiracy" to describe the committee's findings, and told CBS News that efforts to delegitimize democracy by former President Trump and his allies is "an ongoing threat."

"It is extremely broad. It's extremely well organized. It's really chilling," Cheney said.