Rep. Jamie Raskin says January 6 hearings will ‘tell a story that will blow the roof off the House’

• The January 6 select committee’s public hearings are expected to start in June. 
• Rep. Jamie Raskin said he anticipates they’ll be dramatic, NBC News reported. 
• Raskin said they will “tell a story that will blow the roof off the House.” 

Rep. Jamie Raskin said the January 6 select committee’s upcoming hearings will “tell a story that will blow the roof off the House,” NBC News reported. 

The Maryland Democrat said the public hearings which are expected to start in June will be dramatic and will show evidence that former President Donald Trump and his allies helped coordinate the January 6 Capitol riot.

“No president has ever come close to doing what happened here in terms of trying to organize an inside coup to overthrow an election and bypass the constitutional order,” Raskin said at an event hosted by Georgetown University’s Center on Faith and Justice on Thursday. “And then also use a violent insurrection made up of domestic violent extremist groups, white nationalist and racist, fascist groups in order to support the coup.”

Raskin said the committee has interviewed over 800 people but the closer the person is to Trump the less likely they were to talk. 

Several Trump officials including Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows have been held in contempt after refusing to cooperate and testify in front of the committee. 

The House select committee has been investigating Trump’s connection with the insurrection that broke out on January 6, 2021, as Congress was about to certify the election for Joe Biden. 

The committee has previously said that they believe Trump’s efforts to overturn the election violated several laws. In March, the panel said they had evidence that suggested Trump tried to obstruct an official proceeding, conspired to defraud the United States, and engaged in common law fraud.

“This was not a coup directed at the president,” Raskin said of the insurrection, according to NBC News. “It was a coup directed by the president against the vice president and against the Congress.”