as fake and illegitimate as joe biden they cant do anything without a teleprompter trump spokesperson liz harrington said in a post on his truth social social media site as the hearing beganmore hearings in septemberscheduled during the evening to reach a broad television audience the public hearing was the eighth in six weeks by the house of representatives select committee another round of hearings will begin in september said the panels republican vice chairperson representative liz cheneythe witnesses in the room were matthew pottinger a deputy national security adviser under trump and sarah matthews a deputy press secretary in his white house both resigned in the hours following the riotif the president had wanted to make a statement and address the american people he could have been on camera almost immediately matthews testified if he had wanted to make an address from the oval office we could have assembled the white house press corps within minutesthe panel of seven democratic and two republican house members has been investigating the attack for the past year interviewing more than 1000 witnesses and amassing tens of thousands of documentsit has used the hearings to build a case that trumps efforts to overturn his defeat by biden in 2020 constitute illegal conduct far beyond normal politicsprevious hearings have focused on the runup to the riot trumps pressure on pence to deny bidens victory militant groups whose members participated in the capitol attack and trumps interactions with close advisers questioning his false allegations of massive voter fraudcommittee members said trump incited the riot by refusing to admit he lost the election and through comments including a twitter post in december calling supporters to washington for a big protest on jan 6 saying be there will be wild