The Home committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol will maintain a public listening to on Sept. 28 at 1 p.m., the committee introduced Wednesday.
Rep. Bennie Thompson advised CBS Information on Monday that the committee remains to be discussing whether or not to have witnesses for the listening to.
"We've got a variety of data that we have now collected during the last yr that we have not proven the general public. And we consider that that data by itself is critical sufficient for a listening to," Thompson stated.
The committee held a sequence of public hearings earlier this summer time that mixed never-before-seen footage from Jan. 6, video testimony from a few of the individuals who have been in former President Donald Trump's interior circle and in-person witness testimony.
The hearings sought to tie Trump to the coordination of the assault and make clear plans devised by him and members of his interior circle desgined to overturn the 2020 elections outcomes.
Thompson stated earlier this month that the committee plans to place collectively an interim report two weeks after the proposed late September listening to, in mid-October, and can finalize the report earlier than the tip of the yr.
That may take them previous the November midterm elections, and the committee's two Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, are each leaving Congress in January. Cheney misplaced the Republican main in Wyoming to a Trump-backed challenger. Kinzinger determined to not run for reelection.
If Republicans take management of the Home in January, it is anticipated that the choose committee can be disbanded. Whereas Republicans have been entitled to have 5 members on what was meant to be a 12-person committee, Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two of Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy's steered members, as they have been among the many 139 Home Republicans who voted to overturn the election outcomes on Jan. 6. Because of this, McCarthy refused to place any extra Republicans on the committee, with Pelosi asking Cheney and Kinzinger — who have been among the many 10 Home GOP members who voted to question Trump — to be on what ended up being a 9-person committee comprised of seven Democrats and the 2 Republicans.
Since its creation final yr, the committee has issued over 100 subpoenas and gone over a whole bunch of paperwork associated to the assault.
Because the final listening to was held on July 16, the committee stated it has had conversations with the Justice Division a couple of scheme allegedly cooked up by Trump's allies to place ahead alternate electors supporting him in seven battleground states that President Joe Biden gained.
On July 22, a federal jury discovered former Trump strategist Steve Bannon responsible of two counts of legal contempt for refusing to adjust to a subpoena to look earlier than the Jan. 6 committee. He faces as much as two years in jail. Bannon has stated he was honoring government privilege considerations raised by Trump, though Kristin Amerling, one of many two witnesses known as by prosecutors, stated the committee by no means acquired discover from Trump about this impediment to deposing Bannon, and the committee wouldn't have acknowledged such a declare anyway.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, a member of the committee, advised "Face the Nation" earlier this month that the committee remains to be hoping former Vice President Mike Pence will seem voluntarily earlier than the panel. The committee's public hearings targeted partially on Trump and his allies' makes an attempt to stress Pence to reject the Electoral Faculty votes on Jan. 6 throughout the joint session of Congress.
"Vice President Pence was the goal of Donald Trump's wrath and fury and energy to overthrow the election on Jan. 6. The entire thought was to get Pence to step exterior his constitutional function, after which to declare unilateral lawless powers to reject Electoral Faculty votes from the states," Raskin stated.
Pence in the end rejected these efforts and gaveled in Mr. Biden because the winner of the 2020 election after 3:40 a.m. on Jan. 7. Pence stated at a New Hampshire political occasion in August that he'd "think about" testifying earlier than the committee.
The committee has additionally formally requested that former Home Speaker Newt Gingrich, who was additionally an adviser to Trump, converse with them. The committee cited emails he allegedly exchanged with Trump's senior advisers, together with Jared Kushner and Jason Miller. "Proof reveals that Mr. Gingrich pushed messages designed to incite anger amongst voters even after Georgia election officers had confronted intimidation and threats of violence," the committee stated in its request for Gingrich to look.
The committee's public listening to on June 21 examined threats made to state and native elections officers, together with in Georgia. The Fulton County District Legal professional's Workplace has launched a legal investigation into whether or not Trump and his allies interfered with Georgia's election in 2020. Trump's private legal professional, Rudy Giuliani, testified for six hours earlier than a Fulton County grand jury in August associated to that investigation.
Ellis Kim contributed to this report.