As a Georgia investigation into potential criminal interference in the 2020 election heats up, prosecutors are trying to force former President Donald Trump’s allies and advisers to come to Atlanta to testify before a special grand jury.

Liz Cheney’s shocking revelation that her committee reported Donald Trump to the Justice Department for trying to contact a witness has sparked a slew of speculation about who the person might be – and if or when the panel might call them to appear in public.

So far, all we know is what two sources told CNN: that the person who was contacted was believed to be a “support staff member” who had no routine communication with Mr. Trump and was “concerned” about the alleged contact attempt.

Shweta Sharma to the story.

As Joe Biden reiterates ‘the only thing worse than Iran that exists now is Iran with nuclear weapons’, shocking Yahoo News story relays US intelligence report warning of assassination threats Iran’s potential attacks against senior Trump administration officials, including the former president himself.

“The Iranian regime is waging a multi-pronged campaign – including threats of lethal action, international legal maneuvers, and the issuance of Iranian arrest warrants and sanctions – against some U.S. officials to avenge the death of [Iranian Revolutionary Guard] Commander Soleimani in January 2020, raising the threat at home and abroad to those Iran considers responsible for the killing.

Alongside Mr. Trump are specifically singled out his former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, and former CENTCOM commander, Gen. Kenneth McKenzie.

Read the full report here.

President Donald Trump had secretly planned a few days before January 6 to drive his supporters from the Ellipse outside the White House to the US Capitol, where he hoped to deliver a speech outside the building.

Mr Trump’s plans were first revealed on Tuesday by the January 6 committee, whose members obtained private text messages between White House officials and far-right figures, including the CEO of MyPillow , Mike Lindell, as well as a draft tweet that Mr. Trump apparently planned. send a few days before his supporters arrive at the Capitol.

Together, the posts describe what Representative Stephanie Murphy called a “deliberate strategy” to concentrate Mr. Trump’s supporters on Capitol Hill as the Electoral College results were being certified.

John Bowden watched Tuesday’s hearing.

Jan. 6 Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney revealed an effort by former President Donald Trump to contact one of the panel’s witnesses.

In her closing statement following the final House select committee hearing on Tuesday, Cheney said the former president called a witness who had not yet been made public. This witness alerted their attorney to the call, who in turn notified the Congressional committee.

Donald Trump’s former senior campaign adviser has blamed the death of a woman during the US Capitol riot on the former president’s impassioned rhetoric, text messages have revealed.

Brad Parscale appeared to reference the death of Ashli ​​Babbit, who was fatally shot by law enforcement during the deadly uprising, in messages to fellow Trump adviser Katrina Pierson, which have were shared at the last hearing on January 6.

In messages the day of the riot, Mr Parscale told Ms Pierson he “felt guilty” for helping Mr Trump win the White House and described him as “a sitting president asking civil war”.

A White House meeting repeatedly described as “crazy,” “controversial,” “unbalanced” and “hot-blooded” took center stage during the committee’s final Jan. 6 hearing on Tuesday.

The committee heard from key participants in the meeting, which took place just four days after the Electoral College meeting to certify Joe Biden’s election. It was described by the committee as “crucially important” to understanding Mr Trump’s actions in the days leading up to January 6.

Richard Hall reports on what happened the night of December 18, 2020 at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

One of the officers, former oath keeper Stephen Ayres, hugged and apologized after the final hearing on January 6, said he was not sure he was ready to accept his apology.

Donald Trump altered his Jan. 6 rally remarks and improvised violent lines to add pressure on then-Vice President Mike Pence in his efforts to get Mr. Pence to try to overturn the election, said the House Select Committee investigating the insurrection.

Gustaf Kilander has the story.

Former Oath Keepers spokesman Jason Van Tatenhove has raised concerns about Donald Trump’s re-term in the White House, as he testified before the January 6 Committee.

“We were extremely lucky there was no further bloodshed because the potential was there from the start,” he said on Tuesday.

Mr Tatenhove then expressed his fears for the future.