Surprise hearing coming Tuesday as Jan. 6 committee promises recently obtained evidence
The U.S. Home of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot is looking a shock listening to this week to current proof it says it lately obtained, elevating expectations of recent bombshells within the sweeping investigation into the occasion.
The listening to scheduled for 1 p.m. ET on Tuesday comes after the U.S. Congress left Washington for a two-week recess. Lawmakers on the committee mentioned final week that there could be no extra hearings till July.
The topic of the hearings is to date unclear. A spokesperson for the panel declined to touch upon its substance.
The committee’s investigation has been ongoing through the hearings that began three weeks in the past, and the nine-member panel has continued to compile proof.
Amongst different investigative proof, the committee lately obtained new footage of then-U.S. president Donald Trump and his inside circle taken each earlier than and after Jan. 6, 2021, from British filmmaker Alex Holder, who was making a documentary collection about Trump.
Holder mentioned final week that he had complied with a congressional subpoena to show over all the footage he shot within the last weeks of Trump’s 2020 re-election marketing campaign.
Video exhibits inconsistencies with testimony, in line with lawyer
The filmmaker mentioned the footage contains unique interviews with Trump, his kids and then-vice-president Mike Pence whereas on the marketing campaign path in addition to earlier than and after the rebellion on the U.S. Capitol.
It’s unsure if Holder’s footage is the topic of the listening to on Tuesday, or if Holder himself will likely be there. Russell Smith, a lawyer for Holder, declined to remark.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, the panel’s Democratic chair, informed reporters final week that the committee was in possession of the footage and wanted extra time to undergo the hours of video Holder had turned over. The British filmmaker got here in for a deposition Thursday that lasted two hours, Smith mentioned final week.
Smith mentioned then that it was Holder’s “civic responsibility” to come back ahead and that the footage had proven some inconsistencies with earlier testimony through the hearings.
The panel has held 5 hearings to date, largely laying out Trump’s stress marketing campaign on numerous establishments of energy within the weeks main as much as the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress that ultimately licensed Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential victory. The committee detailed the stress from Trump and his allies on Pence, on the states that have been certifying Biden’s win and on the Justice Division.
The panel has used dwell interviews, video testimony of its personal witness interviews and likewise footage of the assault to element what it has realized.
Lawmakers mentioned final week that the 2 July hearings would give attention to home extremists who breached the Capitol that day and on what Trump was doing because the violence unfolded.
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