WASHINGTON — The Jan. 6 committee will hold a last-minute public hearing Tuesday to present new evidence and hear witness testimony, after having previously said it would take a break until mid-July.
The hearing is scheduled for Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET, according to an advisory the committee sent out Monday. In an unusual move, the committee has not identified the witness, as it did for previous hearings.
Monday’s announcement came as a surprise given that Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and aides for the Jan. 6 panel said just last week that there would be no other public hearings in June and that the next set of hearings would take place when Congress returns from its two-week July Fourth recess, sometime in mid-July.
Two hearings were originally scheduled for this week, but they were delayed, panel members said, to give the committee more time to prepare and because the panel continues to learn more information.
“The next couple of hearings will cover the run-up to Jan. 6, the marshaling of this mob that appeared on the mall that day, and the attack on the Capitol,” Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., a panel member, said Sunday during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“The final hearing will cover what the president was doing and more importantly, what he was not doing as we were being attacked,” he said. “Basically, the president’s flagrant dereliction of duty while the Capitol was being attacked.”
The nine-member House select committee has already held five hearings this month on themes including then-President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign on his vice president, Mike Pence, on Justice Department officials, and on state and local officials.
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