The special U.S. House committee investigating the events leading up to and including the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol holds another day of public hearings Tuesday in Washington, with testimony expected to focus on alleged efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to pressure election officials in 2020 battleground states, CNN reports.

This follows hearings that showed the violence of the siege and documented Trump’s resistance as his aides and allies initially tried to present the facts of his November loss, along with the pressure placed on Vice President Mike Pence to delay the electoral count or object to Joe Biden’s win.  

The hearing comes less than a week before the former President appears near Quincy, Ill. on Saturday to boost the campaign of U.S. Rep. Mary Miller, who faces U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis in a battle of incumbents who have been put into the same district.

Miller has criticized Davis for voting to create the committee, calling him “RINO Rodney Davis, who stabbed President Trump in the back by voting for the sham January 6th Commission.” 

 Davis was originally assigned to the committee before House GOP leadership pulled back its appointments when Speaker Nancy Pelosi objected to having U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan and Jim Banks serve. Pelosi later appointed U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger and U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney.

More recently, Davis has called the committee “a sham” that he didn’t vote for.

On Friday, Spectrum News asked Davis about the revelations thus far in the committee’s work, specifically confirmed by Republican fact witnesses and video statements under oath.

Davis, who voted to certify the election results, and has said Pence did the right thing in the process of certifying the results, repeatedly focused instead on what the panel had not yet explored in the way of Capitol security.

“I would have been a voice for fairness, a voice to ask who was in charge of the security apparatus, what went so wrong on January 6. I was briefed on January 5 by the Capitol Police and trust me, nothing in that briefing would have led me to believe I’d witness what I saw on the 6th and frankly now we know through bipartisan investigations in the Senate that the Capitol Police had intelligence that was not relayed to its officers, it was not relayed to even the Chief of the Capitol Police at the time. These are mistakes that the select committee, they’re not asking questions about and therefore there are no solutions and there aren’t fixes.”

 If Republicans retake control of the House in November and Davis wins re-election, he would be in line to chair the Committee on House Administration, where he promised to take up those questions.

Monday night, Davis and Jordan wrote U.S. Capitol Police, looking for information relating to the detention of a crew from CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday. The crew was at the Capitol Complex Wednesday and Thursday, Colbert said Monday, at the invitation of Democratic and Republican members of Congress to shoot comedy material with a puppet known as Triumph The Insult Comic Dog. Colbert said the crew was detained, processed and released. The incident comes as Davis and some other Republican lawmakers took issue with allegations raised by the January 6 panel that some members of Congress conducted so-called "recon" tours on January 5, 2021.

 
  

In his monologue Monday night, Colbert became animated when describing the conservative media coverage of the incident, that appeared to compare it to the events of January 6.

"Drawing any equivolence between rioters storming our Capitol to preent the counting of electoral ballots and a cigar-chomping toy dog is a shameful and grotesque insult to the memory of everyone who died and it obscenely trivializes the service and the courage the Capitol Police showed on that terrible day," he said.

 

 

 

The Associated Press contributed information for this story