How a documentary film-maker became the January 6 panel’s star witness

Nick Quested, who was embedded with the Proud Boys after the 2020 election, will supply first-hand knowledge of the riots

When the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack on Thursday got to the witness testimony at its inaugural hearing, it heard from an individual with first-hand knowledge about how the far-right Proud Boys group came to storm the Capitol.

The panel's star witness, Nick Quested, is an Emmy award-winning British documentary film-maker who founded the indie film company Goldcrest and embedded with the Proud Boys in the weeks after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election as part of a project about division in America.