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Barbara Plett Usher
BBC News, Washington

Today’s hearing is focused on the lead up to the 6 January Capitol attack and it shows how real people were seriously affected by Trump’s pressure campaign.

It’s laying out a case that Trump and his small circle of allies targeted local election officials and legislators in contested states across America – demanding they go along with a scheme to unlawfully overturn Trump’s loss based on his unfounded claims of fraud.

In some cases Trump's team even shared personal details of election officials on social media, which led to a flood of calls and texts.

One Michigan Republican who "decided to follow the law" recounted how he received "just shy of 4,000 text messages in a short period of time, calling to take action".

"They were believing things that weren't true," he said of the people reaching out to him.

Another state official talked about how fearful she was about protesters gathering outside her home.

“The uncertainty of it – are they coming with guns?” she said in a pre-recorded clip.

“Are they going to attack my house? I’m putting my kids to bed!”

Tara McKelvey
BBC News, Washington

Just inside the doorway of the Cannon Caucus Room, a guard stands stock still, with his hands clasped in front of him, and watches the proceedings intently.

His colleagues, members of the Capitol Police force, are outside the door and posted around the building. They are here to make sure lawmakers are safe, and they serve as a reminder of the threat to politicians.

Today, Brad Raffensperger, the secretary of state in Georgia, and his deputy, Gabriel Sterling, are expected to talk about death threats that state officials received when they stood up to then-President Trump in his bid to get the election overturned.

Members of the special committee spoke today of death threats.

"Someone was going to get killed,” they said.

According to Representative Liz Cheney, vice-chair of the special committee, these are threats that Trump “knew about and amplified” and that ultimately led to the riot on the US Capitol that left five dead.

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The committee is now questioning Rusty Bowers, speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, who resisted pressure to overturn the election results.

Bowers recalls a call from President Trump and his ex-lawyer Rudy Giuliani in which the pair claimed thousands of undocumented immigrants and thousands of dead people voted in the election for Joe Biden.

Bowers, who supported Trump's re-election, refused to say the election was rigged.

"You're asking me to do something against my oath and I will not break my oath," he recalls saying.

Adam Schiff, who's expected to lead much of today's session, has just introduced a video.

He says this gives a sense of the pressure campaign by Trump and his allies on local election officials as part of Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election vote.

• In the video, an investigator details efforts by Trump to pressure state officials to falsely award votes to flip states won by his rival, Joe Biden
• Mike Shirkey, a Republican member of the Michigan state senate appears in the video and claims he received nearly 4,000 text messages demanding he "take action" against voter fraud - after Trump tweeted Shirkey's phone number
• Trump's supporters "were believing things that were untrue", Shirkey adds
• The video claims that Republican Bryan Cutler, the Speaker of Pennsylvania's House of Representatives, received daily calls and voicemails from Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani
• Giuliani is accused of ignoring requests to stop calling

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America reporter

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In today's opening remarks, committee chairman Bennie Thompson referenced a county canvassing board in New Mexico that had refused to certify that state’s recent primary results in its jurisdiction.

The three Republicans on the Otero County board – including one who co-founded “Cowboys for Trump” and was convicted of criminal trespassing during the 6 January protests at the US Capitol - cited concerns about the county’s vote-tabulating equipment and general distrust in the election process as grounds for their refusal.

The Dominion voting machines, used in multiple states during the 2020 election, have been a frequent target of unfounded conspiracy theories by supporters of Donald Trump.

Although a state court ultimately ordered the board to approve the election results, Thompson noted that this kind of disruption of vote-certification procedures could become more common as individuals who back Trump’s allegations of widespread voter fraud are elected or appointed to positions supervising future US elections.

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The congressional committee investigating the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol building is again presenting its findings to the American public today.

It follows nearly a year of investigation, nearly 100 subpoenas and over 1,000 interviews.

Through the hearings, the Democratic-led committee wants to create a definitive account of the riot and the attempts to undermine the 2020 presidential election results.

Ultimately, the hearings could lead to prosecutions and new laws to strengthen election security.

Ahead of November’s midterm elections, Democrats may also be hoping that the hearings remind Americans of the chaotic 6 January riot carried out to bolster a Republican president.

Read more about the committee’s investigation and the hearings here.

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We've heard from Liz Cheney, the committee's vice-chair.

The Republican congresswoman says there will be two areas of focus in today's hearing.

The first topic are the phone calls made by Donald Trump to officials in Georgia and other states in his efforts to overturn Biden's win in the 2020 presidential election.

Secondly, Cheney says, we will hear about the threats and pressure Trump exerted on local election officials in late 2020.

Over a one-hour call on 2 January 2021 - four days before the riot - Trump quarrelled with his fellow Republican, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, over his refusal to attribute Trump's loss there to false claims of "voter fraud".

“The people of Georgia are angry, the people of the country are angry. And there’s nothing wrong with saying that, you know, um, that you’ve recalculated,” Trump said.

“Well, Mr President, the challenge that you have is, the data you have is wrong,” Raffensperger responded.

In another portion of the call, a frustrated Trump said: “So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.”

“You should want to have an accurate election. And you’re a Republican,” he continued.

Raffensperger hit back: “We believe that we do have an accurate election.”

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Biden managed to flip Georgia for the Democrats for the first time in 28 years when he won the state in 2020.

His victory came as a shock to Republicans in the ruby red state. Trump argued that this unlikely victory was proof of a conspiracy against him.

Only days later, the state elected a Democratic Senator - Raphael Warnock - who unseated a sitting Republican senator.

Warnock is up for re-election in November, and is pitted against Trump-backed nominee Herschel Walker.

Walker recently shook up the race with the revelation that he had three previously unknown children.

The committee is expected to call four witnesses to testify.

• Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who as the top official overseeing the election in his state was pressured by Trump to "find" votes to beat Biden
• His deputy, Gabriel Sterling, who played a prominent public role in pushing back on Trump's false claims of voter fraud in his state
• Rusty Bowers, the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, who was pressured by Trump's ally and former lawyer Rudy Giuliani to try to overturn the state's result
• Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss, a Georgia election worker that Trump and his allies accused of orchestrating an illegal voting scheme, leading to threats against her and her mother

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The hearing has just started.

Today's hearing is expected to focus on Trump's efforts to pressure state officials to overturn the result of the election.

False claims of voter fraud by Trump and his allies have been blamed for leading to the violence on 6 January in Washington.

We'll hear from two election officials in Georgia - including Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who Trump called asking him to "find" the votes he needed to beat Biden.

Also testifying is a top Republican state house official in Arizona, and a Georgia election worker who Trump and other Republicans accused of carrying out a fake ballot scheme.

According to lawmakers, this led to threats against her and her mother's lives.

The 6 January committee aims to prove that Trump fought to get contested states to pass electors - the group that certifies the election result - to pass a false slate of electors that would support Trump.

It's day four of the public hearings into the US Capitol riot.

The hearings aim to paint a full picture of the events that unfolded on 6 January 2021 as supporters of former Republican President Donald Trump sought to stop Democrat Joe Biden from being confirmed as the winner of the 2020 election.

The Democratic-led committee says its findings will show the attack was the result of a co-ordinated, multi-step effort to overturn the results of the election.

Critics, however, have argued against the validity and purpose of the panel. Trump has declared it a "kangaroo court" designed to distract from the "disaster" of Democratic governance.