US AG Garland vows prosecutions 'at any level' over Jan. 6

US Attorney General Merrick Garland says the Justice Department is resolved to hold accountable all the individuals that were involved in the January 6 attacks, including those who never set foot in the Capitol building.

“The actions we have taken thus far will not be our last. The Justice Department remains committed to holding all January six perpetrators at any level, accountable under law, whether they were present that day, or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy. We will follow the facts wherever they lead,” Garland said in a speech on Wednesday.

The comments by Garland come after a number of Democratic lawmakers expressed dissatisfaction with what they called the DOJ’s unwillingness to prosecute the main leaders of the Jan. 6 incidents.

Ex-White House, DOJ officials urge Supreme Court to reject Trump’s effort to hamper Jan. 6 investigation

A group of former White House and top Justice Department lawyers who served under Republican presidents have demanded the Supreme Court to reject former US President Donald Trump’s efforts to stymie the House committee’s probe around the Jan. 6 incidents.

The congressional committee investigating the attacks also signaled this week that it is considering criminal referrals to the DOJ if it finds evidence that former US President Donald Trump or his allies were involved in the attacks.

 “We build investigations by laying a foundation. We resolve more straightforward cases first because they provide the evidentiary foundation for more complex cases. Investigating the more overt crimes, generates linkages to less overt ones. Overt actors and the evidence they provide can lead us to others who may also have been involved and that evidence can serve as a foundation for further investigative leads and techniques,” Garland added.

The US Democrats maintain that the riot on Jan. 6 was an insurrection based on disinformation spread by Trump, who alleges that he is the true victor of the 2020 presidential election and not Joe Biden.

Thousands of Trump’s supporters attacked police, vandalized the Capitol and sent members of Congress and then-Vice President Mike Pence running for their lives on that day.

Multiple people close to Trump, including conservative media TV hosts, urged him during the riot to make a televised speech telling his supporters to stop the riot. Trump waited hours before releasing a prerecorded message.

Representative Liz Cheney, the Jan. 6 panel's Republican vice chair and a harsh critic of Trump, said Sunday the committee received testimony that Trump's daughter, Ivanka, repeatedly asked her father to intervene to stop the attack.

Ivanka repeatedly asked Trump to stop violence on January 6: Cheney

Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, repeatedly asked her father to intervene to stop the violence by his supporters on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, according to Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.).

"We know his daughter — we have firsthand testimony that his daughter Ivanka went in at least twice to ask him to 'please stop this violence,'" Cheney said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

"The committee has firsthand testimony now that he was sitting in the dining room next to the Oval Office watching the attack on television as the assault on the Capitol occurred," Cheney, who voted to impeach the former president last year, also told ABC's George Stephanopoulos.

"We know, as you know well, that the briefing room at the White House is just a mere few steps from the Oval Office. The president could have at any moment, walked those very few steps into the briefing room, gone on live television, and told his supporters who were assaulting the Capitol to stop," she added.

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