The House Committee investigating the Jan. 6 events on Capitol Hill convened an extraordinary hearing this week to present recently obtained evidence, raising expectations of new bombshells in the investigation.
The hearing, scheduled for Tuesday at 1 pm, comes after Congress left Washington for a two-week recess. Committee lawmakers said last week that there would be no more hearings until July.
Among other investigative evidence, the Committee recently obtained new footage of Trump and his inner circle taken before and after January 6, 2021, from British filmmaker Alex Holder.
Holder said last week that he had complied with a congressional subpoena to turn over all the footage he shot during the final weeks of Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, including exclusive interviews with the former president, his children and then-Vice President Mike Pence. .
But it’s unclear if those images are the subject of Tuesday’s hearing or if Holder himself will be there.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, the panel’s chairman, told reporters last week that the committee had new footage and needed more time to review the hours of video Holder provided.
The panel has held five hearings so far, mostly presenting Trump’s pressure on various institutions of power in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress, which ultimately certified Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential victory.
The Committee detailed pressure from Trump and his allies on Vice President Mike Pence, on the states that certified Biden’s victory, and on the Justice Department. He has used live interviews, video testimonials from his interviews with witnesses, and also footage of the attack.
Lawmakers said last week that the two July hearings would focus on who stormed the Capitol that day and what Trump was doing as the violence unfolded.
