Jan. 6 committee announces last-minute hearing for Tuesday
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We ran the numbers: There are 1,609 news articles covering this topic. 37% (592) are left-leaning, 37% (595) are centrist, and 26% (422) are right-leaning.
On Monday, the House committee investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol announced a last-minute hearing for Tuesday. This comes after an announcement that the committee would pause its series of meetings until July in the wake of a wealth of new evidence. The committee has been encouraging lawmakers to cooperate with the panel’s investigators and recently subpoenaed Alex Holder to turn over temporal documentary footage of the Trumps; the footage includes an interview between Trump and Pence, with whom the committee has yet to secure an interview.
A left-leaning article from the Washington Post outlines the announcement to hold a surprise hearing Tuesday to “present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony.” The article notes the secrecy in which the announcement was made, “with staff and committee members explicitly asked to go dark and not speak with media, according to two people involved with the investigation.” The article notes that “three people familiar with the investigation said that the secrecy is in part due to credible security threats to a witness.” The article also outlines the committee’s meeting with Holder and contact with those involved in effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
A center-leaning article from The Hill also reports on the surprise hearing, noting the committee’s ongoing efforts to secure more information, including more interviews and the Holder footage. The article also writes, “The committee was also expecting a new batch of documents from the National Archives. However, a letter from acting Archivist Debra Steidel Wall, sent the same day Thompson announced the delay in hearings, says the new information would be released July 8.” The article goes on to write that the committee will also be investigating the role of extremist groups Oath Keepers and Proud Boys and the potential roles they played in the riot.
A right-leaning article from Fox News also noted that the committee “did not detail what that evidence will be or what witnesses may be present”, nor did they “detail which lawmaker or lawmakers will be expected to lead the hearing. In the past, one specific committee member has led questioning.” The article concludes, “Lawmakers on the committee have continued to issue subpoenas and conduct depositions, even as they held several public hearings in recent weeks. Just this month, filmmaker Alex Holder turned over raw footage from a documentary he was working on to the committee and sat for a deposition.”
From the left
Jan. 6 committee announces surprise Tuesday hearing, offers few details
The Washington Post