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Al Jazeera
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Politics
Al Jazeera Staff

Five key takeaways from third January 6 US Capitol riot hearing

Panel says Donald Trump knew that the vice president overturning the US election results would be illegal [Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]

The United States House committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol last year has turned its attention to former President Donald Trump’s pressure on his vice president to overturn the 2020 elections result.

As the tiebreaker and president of the Senate, Mike Pence ceremoniously presided over the certification of the vote on January 6, 2021.

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