Attorney General Garland says he’s watching all Jan. 6 committee hearings
Attorney General Merrick Garland said Monday he is watching the televised hearings of the congressional committee investigating the January 6 riot.
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland said Monday he is watching the televised hearings of the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot, as members of the House panel focused on former President Donald Trump's election fraud claims on the second day of testimony.
“I am watching, and I will be watching all the hearings, although I may not be able to watch all of it live,” he said. “And I can assure you that the Jan. 6 prosecutors are watching all the hearings.”
The House panel held its second day of hearings on Monday and plans to hold several more before the end of July.
Jan. 6 committee highlights Trump's election fraud claims in second hearingJune 13, 202203:27At a news conference announcing criminal charges in a Texas gun trafficking case, Garland repeated his now-familiar response that the Justice Department will follow the law and the facts wherever they lead in its Jan. 6 investigations. But, apparently sensitive to criticism that the government isn’t doing enough, he gave a detailed explanation about why prosecutors don’t comment on ongoing investigations.
“We do that both for the viability of our investigations and because it’s the right thing to do with respect to the civil liberties of people under investigation," Garland said. “Eventually that information comes out in the form of our search warrant affidavits, in our orders, and our pleadings and, eventually, if there are charges. But for our investigations to proceed in an efficient way, we have learned over many, many years that this is the way our investigations should go.”
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