By Mary Clare Jalonick and Farnoush Amiri | Related Press
WASHINGTON — The Home Jan. 6 panel is asking a shock listening to this week to current proof it says it just lately obtained, elevating expectations of recent bombshells within the sweeping investigation into the Capitol rebel.
The listening to scheduled for 1 p.m. on Tuesday comes after Congress left Washington for a two-week recess. Lawmakers on the panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 rebel stated final week that there can be no extra hearings till July.
The topic of the hearings is to this point unclear. A spokesman for the panel declined to touch upon its substance.
The committee’s investigation has been ongoing throughout the hearings that began three weeks in the past, and the nine-member panel has continued to probe the assault by supporters of then-President Donald Trump. Amongst different investigative proof, the committee just lately obtained new footage of Trump and his interior circle taken each earlier than and after Jan. 6, 2021 from British filmmaker Alex Holder.
Holder stated final week that he had complied with a congressional subpoena to show over all the footage he shot within the remaining weeks of Trump’s 2020 reelection marketing campaign, together with unique interviews with Trump, his kids and then-Vice President Mike Pence whereas on the marketing campaign path. The footage contains materials from earlier than the rebel and afterward.
It's unsure if Holder’s footage is the topic of the listening to on Tuesday, or if Holder himself shall be there. A lawyer for Holder declined to remark.
The panel has held 5 hearings to this point, and not less than two extra hearings had been deliberate for July. Lawmakers stated the longer term hearings would deal with home extremists who breached the Capitol that day and on what Trump was doing because the violence unfolded.