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Graydon Young, of Englewood, said he saw parallels between the insurrection and the French people who “stood up and resisted kings and tyrants” more than two centuries ago.

The committee, across eight hearings, has built a case — more political than legal — that Trump, who continues to lie about the election and teases he'll run in 2024, is not fit to hold the office.

As the Jan. 6 hearings have played out, there has been only some, if any, movement in people's views of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, but independents' views have changed since a December poll.

More people from Florida face charges from the attack than from any other state. Why has Florida become a hotspot for these extremist groups and others who took part in the insurrection?

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is holding about a half a dozen public hearings this month on what it has learned so far.

A member of the national executive committee of the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee said this includes members of organizations such as the Proud Boys and Three Percenters.

The three men are accused of storming the Capitol and face charges of civil disorder. One marched with members of the Proud Boys.

The Justice Department announced the new indictment alleging an effort to "oppose by force the execution of the laws governing the transfer of presidential power."

Said DeSantis: “They are going to take this and milk this for anything they could to try to be able to smear anyone who ever supported Donald Trump.”

Seventh-grade civics teacher Matt Kiernan was in the middle of class when he got an alert that the U.S. Capitol was under attack. "I just stopped and just turned on the news. Like, how am I going to teach literally about how a bill becomes a law when there’s a genuine riot happening in the Capitol?”

Biden didn't utter Trump's name but referred repeatedly to him with forceful, and at times personal, denunciations of his actions. "He's not just a former president. He's a defeated former president."

The judge said she wanted to make clear with the sentence that "trying to stop the peaceful transition of power and assaulting law enforcement officers is going to be met with certain punishment."