The Jan. 6 committee’s ninth and sure closing investigative listening to Thursday will characteristic new testimony and proof, together with Secret Service information and surveillance video.
The listening to, set for 1 p.m. ET, is not going to embody any dwell witnesses, a committee aide mentioned. And in contrast to earlier hearings that centered on a particular side of the GOP plot to overturn the 2020 election and preserve then-President Donald Trump in energy, Thursday’s presentation will take a extra sweeping view of what occurred earlier than, throughout and after the Jan. 6 assault.
“Tomorrow, what we’ll be doing is taking a step again and we’ll be taking a look at that whole plan, your entire multipart plan to overturn the election. We’ll be taking a look at it in a broader context and in a broader timeline as effectively,” a committee aide mentioned on a convention name with reporters on Wednesday.
“We’ll carry a selected deal with the previous president’s way of thinking and his involvement in these occasions as they unfolded,” the aide added. “What you are going to see is a synthesis of some proof we have already offered with that new, never-before-seen data as an instance Donald Trump’s centrality to the scheme from the time previous to the election.”
The committee aide confirmed that the Thursday listening to will characteristic new testimony from witnesses who’ve appeared throughout previous hearings, in addition to from some who haven’t been seen earlier than.
Some new data from a trove of Secret Service information — together with greater than 1 million digital communications despatched by brokers within the lead-up to and through the riot — might be revealed within the listening to, an aide confirmed. Because the panel’s final listening to on the finish of July, the committee additionally carried out interviews with new high-profile witnesses, together with former Trump Cupboard members Mike Pompeo and Elaine Chao; their testimony might be featured Thursday as effectively, although aides wouldn’t identify names.
The aide wouldn’t affirm that these tuning in Thursday would see testimony from Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, a conservative activist and the spouse of Supreme Court docket Justice Clarence Thomas. Virginia Thomas was interviewed by the Jan. 6 panel on Sept. 29, the place, Chair Bennie Thompson mentioned, she continued to insist that the 2020 election was stolen.
Not like many different committee interviews and depositions, Thomas’ was not videotaped as a consequence of an settlement together with her, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., lately mentioned on MSNBC. However transcripts and quotes from Thomas should still be used on Thursday, Lofgren mentioned.
All 9 committee members are anticipated to steer segments of the listening to. That’s a departure from this summer season when every of the eight hearings featured only some panel members at a time.
A part of the committee’s cost is to difficulty legislative suggestions to stop one other Jan. 6 assault, and a few panel members Thursday will current on the continuing threats to democracy that stay.
The panel might maintain one other listening to when it rolls out its closing report by the tip of the 12 months, however Thursday’s televised assembly might be its final earlier than the Nov. 8 midterm elections because the committee strikes to wrap up its historic and sprawling investigation, launched 16 months in the past.
The Jan. 6 committee has carried out greater than 1,000 interviews and depositions, acquired 10,000 submissions to the panel’s tip line and obtained numerous paperwork and different Jan. 6 information.
As a part of its multimedia presentation Thursday, the panel can be anticipated to showcase video clips of Roger Stone — the GOP strategist and Trump confidant — from “A Storm Foretold,” a documentary that tracked Stone forward of the Jan. 6 assault.
“We plan to current what we discovered working by way of this summer season,” Lofgren mentioned on MSNBC. “I feel it would shed some mild on the occasions of [Jan. 6] and the occasions main as much as it, the connections between the extremists and the Republicans.”
“After I suppose again, that is actually a lot worse than I anticipated after we began this,” the congresswoman continued. “All of us knew that the president had summoned the mob and whipped them up and despatched them off to the Capitol, however among the different issues we’ve found are actually worse than I imagined.”
Kyle Stewart contributed.
