Happening now historic hearings. The January 6th Select Committee is about to make a

prime time case to the public and is promising new evidence that the worst attack on American

democracy in US history was no accident.

Candidate charged a Michigan Republican running for governor arrested and charged in connection with the January 6th attack.

And new reporting on what authorities now say happened at the Rob Elementary School.

They're saying what they knew about survivors were still

inside as they waited and waited for orders to storm the classroom with an active shooter and wounded children still inside.

We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Wolf Blitzer, you're in the situation room. than two hours away from the first televised hearing of the House Select Committee on January 6th.

Proceedings like this don't come along very often.

The incident that sparked these particular hearings has never happened before in this country's

history and though we don't yet know what their impact will be, we do know that some of what

we will see and hear and learn tonight and in sessions to come will be for the very first time.

In a moment I'll talk to committee member Adam Schiff, but first, CNN's Ryan Nob nobles on the committee's work so far.

It has been just over 17 months since riders violently stormed the U.S. Capitol,

breaking through windows, attacking law

enforcement and coming within seconds of members of Congress. And for more than

11 months a group of nine members of Congress have been investigating what led to that day,

including former President Donald Trump's false claims the election was stolen.

We had an election that was stolen from us.

It was a landslide election and everyone knows it.

And Trump's inaction for more than three hours as the capital was under siege.

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