Miss the Jan. 6 hearing? Here's what Bill Barr, Ivanka Trump, Capitol Police and others said

Revelations of former President Donald Trump's involvement in the effort to overthrow the 2020 election and gripping testimony of a war-torn Capitol from a Capitol Police officer who survived the attack kicked off a series of hearings on Jan. 6, 2021.

The hearing, conducted by a special congressional panel that has for months investigated the Jan. 6 attack, aired Thursday during nearly all news networks' prime-time slots.

"It boils down to this," said Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. "Jan. 6 was the culmination of an attempted coup."

Graphic video of the violent attack and recorded testimony from senior Trump officials drew murmurs from the crowd and sometimes tears, especially from officers who survived the attack and the widows of officers who did not.

In a series of hearings over the coming weeks, the panel will show never-before-seen documents and videos that will prove the former president "oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated seven-part plan" to subvert a democratic election and prevent the peaceful transfer of power, said Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.

Here are highlights from the hearing:

Jan. 6 an 'attempted coup'

At the outset of the two-hour hearing, the panel's Democratic and Republican leaders used a methodical multimedia presentation to describe what they called a wide and deep plan to overturn the 2020 election results.

"Jan. 6 was the culmination of an attempted coup," said Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the committee's chair.

He said the evidence compiled by the panel will show how Trump led and coordinated a "multistep conspiracy aimed at overturning the election."

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Cheney scorns GOP

Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the committee's vice chair, went further, saying Trump "summoned" and "assembled" the mob.

The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, her comments were particularly pointed as one of just two GOP lawmakers on the committee.

“Tonight I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain," she said.

Ex-Trump officials speak out

One of the most important moments during the committee's opening act was when it used the words of top Trump aides, such as former Vice President Mike Pence and former Attorney General William Barr, who called the claims about the 2020 election being stolen "bull****."

Immediately after the panel played parts of Barr's deposition, it showed testimony from Ivanka Trump, the former president's daughter, who worked as a special assistant in the White House.

She said she "accepted what" Barr "was saying."

Other clips showed Jason Miller, a longtime Trump spokesman, testifying on how data analysts had told the former president he was going to lose the election.

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'No there there' on voter fraud claims

In other previously unseen testimony, Alex Cannon, another Trump aide, described telling White House chief of staff Mark Meadows how they had found no evidence of voter fraud sufficient enough to change any election outcome in the battleground states.

“So there’s no there there,” Meadows said, according to Cannon.

Proud Boys played a key role

At several points during the hearing, the committee highlighted how the far-right group known as the Proud Boys played a significant role in the riot.

The panel played footage from a documentary team showing Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio meeting with Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oathkeepers, on Jan. 5.

Documentary filmmaker Nick Quested, who was embedded with the group, said he watched how members turned “from protestors to rioters to insurrectionists” who helped overrun the police line.

Trump and rioters' chants of 'Hang Mike Pence'

Thompson and Cheney both promised information uncovered by the panel will show the White House under Trump had intelligence that the protests could turn violent but did nothing.

One of the most startling claims by Cheney was reading testimony alleging how Trump, after learning about rioters chanting to hang Pence, replied how maybe they “had the right idea.”

Contributing: Ella Lee

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Revelations from the Jan. 6 committee primetime hearing