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The House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol said Monday it will hold a surprise hearing Tuesday to “present recently obtained evidence and receive witnesses.”
It was not immediately clear who the committee plans to interview and what issues lawmakers intend to focus on. The decision announced Monday was shrouded in secrecy, and staff and committee members explicitly asked that they be and not talk to the media, according to two people involved in the investigation.
The news was so watched that even some senior committee members and lawmakers ’aides stayed out of the loop from Monday afternoon. Three people familiar with the investigation said the secrecy was due in part to credible security threats to a witness.
The committee has been in negotiations with possible witnesses to appear in public while the hearings have been ongoing. Vice President Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) Appealed to former White House attorney Pat Cipollone after revealing that the committee had evidence that he and “his office tried to do what was right” and ” they tried to stop a series of old “President Donald Trump’s plans for January 6th.
“We believe the American people deserve to hear Mr. Cipollone in person,” Cheney said, adding that the committee is “sure Donald Trump doesn’t want Mr. Cipollone to testify here.”
The revised schedule comes several days after the committee announced a brief break to evaluate new evidence and records obtained by the committee, with the intention of waiting until after the July 4 holiday for new public hearings. The sudden change suggested an urgency and sensitivity around Tuesday’s presentation.
Last week, British filmmaker Alex Holder met with committee committee researchers behind closed doors and offered more than 10 hours of footage on the panel of interviews with Trump, his adult children, former Vice President Mike Pence and the attack on the Capitol by a pro- Trump Mafia. The committee has been in contact with new people involved in efforts to undo the results of the 2020 election, including Conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, who is the wife of Judge Clarence Thomas, as well as the representative Mo Brooks (R-Ala.).
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Brooks, who missed the second round of the Alabama Senate last week, sent an email to the White House five days after the Capitol attack apologizing to himself, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R- Fla.) And all legislators who “voted in favor of rejecting it.” Arizona and Pennsylvania Electoral College voting submissions, “according to evidence presented by the committee. In response to repeated requests from lawmakers to appear before the committee, the Alabama lawmaker said he was willing to testify but only publicly.
Tuesday’s hearing is unlikely to focus on issues previously mocked by the committee, including a hearing on extremist groups that stormed the Capitol and another that breaks down the 187 minutes it took the former president to respond. to violence against January 6, 2021.
Tuesday’s hearing will be the sixth public session of this month’s commission. The committee has already told parts of the complicated story of how Trump and his allies tried to undo the results of the 2020 election. Previous hearings have focused on pressure campaigns targeting state and local officials, leaders of the Department of Justice and Pence.
Hearings have included live and pre-recorded testimonies from figures in Trump’s own orbit, as well as Republican officials such as Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, former Attorney General William P. Barr and Cassidy Hutchinson , assistant to the then head of the White House. staff of Mark Meadows.
The January 6 insurrection
The select committee of the House investigating the January 6, 2021 uprising is holding a series of high-profile hearings this month. Find the latest here.
Hearings in Congress: The House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol has conducted more than 1,000 interviews over the past year. He is sharing his findings in a series of hearings starting June 9th. Here’s what we know about audiences and how to view them.
The riot: On January 6, 2021, a pro-Trump mafia stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to stop certification of the results of the 2020 elections. Five people died that day or immediately thereafter, and 140 police officers were killed. attacked.
Inside the siege: During the riot, rioters came dangerously close to entering the building’s inner shrines while lawmakers were still there, including former Vice President Mike Pence. The Washington Post examined text messages, photos, and videos to create a video timeline of what happened on Jan. 6.
Charges: Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants have been charged with seditious conspiracy, joining Oathkeepers leader Stewart Rhodes and about two dozen associates to be charged with their involvement in the attack on the Capitol. These are just a few of the hundreds who were charged, many of whom received substantially lighter punishments than those demanded by the government.