The House will convene the first public hearing for the January 6 select committee next week.
The House select committee investigating January 6 said in a statement that the hearing will reveal unseen material relating to the January 6 protests on June 9., “The committee will present previously unseen material documenting January 6th, receive witness testimony, preview additional hearings, and provide the American people a summary of its findings of the coordinated, multi-step effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and prevent the transfer of power.
The hearing will serve as a review of the committee’s ten-month investigation into the events surrounding the January 6 protests.An aide to former President Donald TrumpCBS News that Trump will likely deliver a response to the hearings, probably in the form of statements. The aide said that the responses will likely be more general, rather than real-time rapid reactions.
January 6 committee chair Bennie Thompson said that they will “use a combination of witnesses, exhibits, things that we have through the tens of thousands of exhibits we’ve […] looked at, as well as the hundreds of witnesses we deposed or just talked to in general.” Speaker Nancy Pelosi created the nine-member committee, comprised of seven Democrats and two Republicans. Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy tapped Reps. Jim Jordan and Jim Banks to serve on the committee; however, Pelosi objected. Instead, Pelosi chose two Never Trump Republicans, Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger , to serve on the committee.
Rep. Jamie Raskin , a member of the January 6 committee, said that the hearings would have revealing information.
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