WASHINGTON – The House Committee, which has spent nearly a year investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and the events that led to it, will hold a public hearing Thursday evening to begin setting out its findings.
Over the past 11 months, the committee has interviewed hundreds of witnesses and analyzed thousands of hours of videos and more than 100,000 pages of documents.
The audience, which will be broadcast on television during prime time, is the first in a series that will run throughout June.
Here’s a guide to following the audience and what to expect.
When is the audience and how can I see?
The committee will begin its meeting on Thursday at 8:00 p.m.
The New York Times will offer a live video of the audience on nytimes.com along with live debates and analysis by Times journalists. All major broadcast networks plan to take the audience live, as well as major cable news networks, with the exception of Fox News.
What does the audience cover?
Leaders of the committee have indicated that on Thursday they will focus on presenting a full chronology of the riot, starting with the 2020 elections and extending to the riot itself and its aftermath.
Democrats involved in the investigation have said the evidence they present will connect the points between the months-long campaign by President Donald J. Trump and his allies to discredit the election result and the effort of the rioters on December 6. January to interrupt Congress certification. of the results.
The audience is also likely to highlight the involvement of the Proud Boys, the far-right group whose members played a critical role in the assault on the Capitol. The committee said witnesses to the session would include Nick Quested, a documentary filmmaker who joined the group before Jan. 6, and Caroline Edwards, a Capitol police officer who was injured at the start of the violence.
Future hearings this month are expected to focus on other issues, such as the efforts of Mr. Trump to install a loyalist in the Justice Department, the pressure campaign on Vice President Mike Pence to prevent Congress from certifying the Electoral College count and the way Mr. Trump encouraged his supporters, including far-right groups and militias, to come to Washington for the January 6 rally that immediately preceded the attack.
The hearings will be chaired by the chairman of the committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, and his vice-chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, who has broken with his party’s leadership by seeking Mr. Trump is responsible for the effort to cancel the election.
When will the next hearing be?
The next committee hearing is scheduled for Monday at 10 a.m. The panel has yet to announce dates and times for subsequent sessions, but two more are expected to be held next week and others next week.
The video will be available again at nytimes.com.
The committee plans to publish its final report in September, ahead of the midterm elections.