The select committee has concluded its ninth day of hearings.

Again, lawmakers presented the findings of its investigation so far, this time focusing on Donald Trump's actions and finally voting to compel the former president to testify.

You can read more about the hearing here.

There’s been more reaction to the hearing from Donald Trump and one of his spokespeople.

On his Truth Social network, Trump posted: “Why didn’t the Unselect Committee ask me to testify months ago? Why did they wait until the very end, the final moments of their last meeting?

“Because the Committee is a total ‘BUST’ that has only served to further divide our Country which, by the way, is doing very badly - A laughing stock all over the World?”

Meanwhile a spokesman for the former president reacted on Twitter, calling Democrats “bitter, power hungry & desperate”.

“Today, 26 days before the Midterm Elections, America is truly a nation in decline,” wrote Taylor Budowich. “Democrats have no solutions and they have no interest in leading our great nation.”

“Pres Trump will not be intimidate[d] by their meritless rhetoric or un-American actions.”

The committee is led by Democrats but includes two Republican lawmakers.

Donald Trump's legal battles are expansive and varied.

The former president is under investigation for everything from his handling of top secret documents to the price tag placed on his New York penthouse, and facing numerous lawsuits as well.

But four high-profile investigations could have the biggest impact on Mr Trump - personally and politically.

All are ongoing and have not resulted in criminal charges.

Read more about them here.

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America correspondent

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One of the few remaining questions hanging over the January 6 hearings is whether the committee will formally recommend criminal charges be brought against Donald Trump.

The committee members have been guarded about whether they will issue any such conclusions on criminal culpability. Democrat Adam Schiff of California recently said that any committee decision will have to be unanimous.

“It will be certainly, I think, my recommendation, my feeling, that we should make referrals, but we will get to a decision as a committee, and we will all abide by that decision, and I will join our committee members if they feel differently,” he said.

Earlier this year, there was some disagreement within the committee about whether a criminal “referral” was even under consideration, with committee chair Bennie Thompson saying it wasn’t – and Republican vice-chair Liz Cheney and others quickly disagreeing.

During the Thursday committee meeting, she left the door open, saying the committee “may ultimately decide to do so”, but the panel’s role “is not to make decisions regarding prosecution."

What the committee did do, however, was subpoena the former president to testify. And if he refuses, the committee could hold him in contempt of Congress and refer that to the Justice Department for prosecution.

While any decision to prosecute – for contempt or a larger criminal charge –would be in the hands of Justice Department prosecutors, a committee referral could have symbolic importance as the final considered judgement of the bipartisan group that has spent more than a year now investigating the Capitol attack and the factors that led to it.

Mike Wendling
reporting from Chicago

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During previous hearings, Donald Trump has reacted angrily on his popular Truth Social account, sometimes in real time.

Today, the former president didn’t lash out until the very end of the hearing, and he didn’t have much to say about the actual proceedings at all.

Instead he rapidly posted a number of links on a variety of unrelated topics. One was an old video of him urging European countries to boost their support for Ukraine. There was criticism of the raid on his Mar-a-Lago resort, voter fraud claims, and posts slamming President Joe Biden.

Only a couple out of a flurry of dozens of posts mentioned the hearing. One included a link to a news story about messages that Cassidy Hutchinson, the White House aide who testified in June, allegedly sent to a legal fund.

And the account also shared a video criticising what Trump calls the "unselect committee". The clip repeated debunked vote fraud claims.

So far Trump has said nothing about the committee voting to compel him to testify – or whether he intends to abide by the subpoena.

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For the first time, the committee presented video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other senior members of Congress shot inside a secure location while the riots were ongoing at the Capitol.

The footage was filmed by Pelosi's daughter, Alexandra Pelosi, who is a documentary maker, CBS, the BBC's US partner, reports.

In the clips, Pelosi is seen speaking to a number of senior government figures.

The House speaker is first seen asking if there is a way to show the public that government can function, despite what's unfolding at the Capitol.

But in response, she is told that people still on the floor are putting on tear-gas masks and preparing for a breach.

"Do you believe this?", she responds.

Later, she tries to persuade various officials to send more law enforcement, including the acting secretary of defence and the governor of Virginia.

Eventually, in a call with Vice-President Mike Pence - usually a political rival - she is told that the disrupted session of Congress should be able to restart in an hour's time.

Committee member Jamie Raskin of Maryland, speaking to reporters after the day’s January 6 meeting had concluded, said he thought Donald Trump ought to take the committee up on its offer to testify.

“I would consider it a great honour and a privilege to testify if somebody accused me of trying to overthrow a presidential election and subvert the government of the United states,” he said wryly.

Committee chair Bennie Thompson called legally compelling Donald Trump to testify to investigators “an extraordinary action”.

But in enumerating the reasoning behind issuing a subpoena, Thompson called Trump the person at the very center of what happened on 6 January 2021.

“He must be accountable. He is required to answer for his actions,” Thompson said.

Thompson noted that there is legal precedent to compel a president to testify.

Presidents Clinton and Nixon – and much longer ago, Thomas Jefferson – were all issued with subpoenas.

Several Trump allies have already ignored subpoenas from the committee, including Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, both of whom were charged with contempt of Congress.

Prior to ending the day's proceedings, the hearing has shown footage of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi during the riots.

She's seen talking to the Virginia governor to request more law enforcement.

The committee hearing has ended for today after unanimously voting to subpoena Donald Trump.

The committee chairman Bennie Thompson described subpoenaing a former president as “an extraordinary action”.

The committee has taken the action it had hinted at throughout the hearing - voting to subpoena the former president. A subpoena will compel Trump to testify as part of the investigation.

The committee is now trying to paint a picture of what was happening inside the White House while Capitol riot was going on.

Aides testified that the former president wanted to go to the scene at the Capitol.

And messages from Secret Service agents – who are tasked with guarding the president – indicate they were preparing for Trump to make a move into a volatile situation.

Agents were ordered to don protective equipment and stand by.

The committee also played an audio clip from an anonymous White House security official who said staffers were “alarmed” and in a “state of shock” over the president's wish.

“We all knew that this would move from a normal, democratic, you know, public event into something else” if Trump were to visit the Capitol, the anonymous official said.

In the end he didn’t go and, according to testimony, sat in the White House dining room watching the scenes unfold on television.

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Former federal prosecutor Joe Moreno tells the BBC that issuing a subpoena to Donald Trump would be a rare and provocative move by the committee.

It would be a two-step process: first would be the order compelling the former president to testify to Congress. If Trump refused, it would be referred to the Justice Department to decide whether to prosecute.

Trump's former adviser Steve Bannon was found guilty of contempt for defying the committee earlier this year.

Moreno does not expect Trump to testify.

"His lawyers won't want him to. He'll take his chances that Republicans are going to take control of the House of Representatives," he says.

And he wonders if the committee will also vote to force former Vice-President Mike Pence to give evidence.

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America correspondent

At the beginning of the hearing, Chair Bennie Thompson hinted that his committee could take a vote for “further investigative action”.

Now, it seems, there are details on what they have up their sleeve – a call for Donald Trump himself to testify.

If the committee does, in fact, subpoena the former president, the action would serve as a dramatic flourish to what has been billed as the final hearing of the January 6 committee.

It certainly would be an effective way to ensure that the day’s proceedings dominate the headlines - a constant concern for a committee that has been well aware of the need to maintain the public's attention.

It seems unlikely in the extreme that the former president would actually testify, however.

Several of his senior advisors and Republican members of Congress have flouted the committee’s requests – either by ignoring subpoenas or asserting constitutional protections against self-incrimination - and Trump has repeatedly claimed the investigation is itself illegitimate and a partisan sham.

But if all these hearings have served as a de facto prosecutorial case against Trump, the committee may feel the best way to conclude to offer the man in the investigatory spotlight a chance to take the stand and defend himself.

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As the committee returns from its brief recess, let's recap what’s happened so far.

• Committee chair Bernie Thompson pledged to make Donald Trump the focus of today’s meeting, saying the panel would investigate the former president’s state of mind, including before the November 2020 election.
• Emails and witness statements were presented which the committee says demonstrates that Trump planned in advance of the vote to cast doubt on the result if he lost.

• In their opening statements, Thompson and other committee members hinted at taking further action. Now media reports indicate that the committee is planning to vote to subpoena Trump later today. That would compel him to testify, or else face a possible criminal charge of contempt of Congress.
• The former president has yet to respond publicly to today’s proceedings.

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America correspondent

Congressman Adam Schiff was tasked with presenting new evidence the January 6 committee had received from the Secret Service messages detailing their agents’ communications during and before the Capitol attack.

In texts and emails, the agents noted the large crowds outside Donald Trump’s morning “Stop the Steal” rally and speculated that it could be because they were armed.

Other reports, of sightings of handguns, assault rifles, riot shields and pepper spray, supported such conclusions.

All this, the congressman continued, was evidence that the White House – and its security teams – knew that violence was not only possible but probable as the crowd moved from the White House up Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol.

He even suggested they may have lied to congressional investigators.

“Certain White House and Secret Service witnesses previously testified that they had received no intelligence about violence that could potentially threaten any of the protectees on January 6, including the vice-president,” Schiff said.

“Evidence strongly suggests that this testimony is not credible.”

US media reports - including the BBC’s partner in the US, CBS, based on sources close to the committee - suggest the January 6 committee plans to vote to subpoena former President Donald Trump at the end of today's hearing.

Mike Wendling
reporting from Chicago

Donald Trump has repeatedly called the committee's work a fraudulent process, though without providing evidence.

He’s previously accused the committee of relying on what he called “doctored” video and selective editing.

“It’s a complete and total lie, a complete and total fraud,” he told a conference, external earlier this year.

Trump has in the past turned to his social media platform, Truth Social, to lambast the committee and its witnesses.

But with the committee drilling down into the former president’s actions and statements, he is so far silent today.

“What did President Trump know? What was he told? What was his personal and substantial role in the multi-part plan to overturn the election?”

January 6 committee Chair Bennie Thompson made his intentions clear during his opening statement. But he also said he wanted to avoid partisanship, taking pains to emphasise that the majority of the evidence, via testimony and documents, came from Republicans – some of whom had a “worked loyally for Donald Trump for years”.

“This investigation is not about politics, it’s not about party, it’s about the facts plain and simple,” Rep Thompson said.

The panel is led by Democrats but includes two Republicans including Vice-Chair Liz Cheney of Wyoming.

Cheney said today that the "weight of evidence" shows to date that the former president was the "central cause" of 6 January.

Most Republicans, of course, don't support the committee's work - and she has paid a political price for her involvement.

Having failed to be re-nominated by voters of her party, she’ll be leaving Congress after the next election.

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Today’s hearing is the first one since July held by the House Select Committee investigating the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

The Democrat-led committee describes its mission as investigating and reporting “upon the facts, circumstances, and causes” related to the riot, as well as to the “interference with the peaceful transfer of power” after the 2020 election - which former President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted he won.

The committee’s chairman, Mississippi representative Bennie Thompson - a Democrat - recently said that the hearing will be the committee’s last before the investigation wraps up, “unless something else develops”.

The committee has held eight previous hearings, which have featured a range of witnesses testifying about the riot at the Capitol, the days leading up to it and Donald Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election.

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