Washington — The Home choose committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol will maintain its subsequent public listening to Oct. 13, the committee introduced Thursday, lower than a month earlier than voters head to the polls for the November midterm elections.
The listening to is scheduled for 1 p.m. ET and comes after the Home panel postponed a Sept. 28 listening to as Hurricane Ian was barreling down on Florida's southwest coast. One of many committee's members, Rep. Stephanie Murphy, is a Democrat whose Florida district consists of a part of Orlando.
Final week, the committee met with Ginni Thomas, a conservative activist and the spouse of Supreme Court docket Justice Clarence Thomas, behind closed doorways. The panel's chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, advised reporters after her greater than four-hour-long interview that she answered "some questions," and mentioned her solutions will likely be included within the subsequent listening to if she supplied investigators with "one thing of advantage."
A supply accustomed to her look earlier than the committee advised CBS Information afterward that Thomas had delivered a gap assertion, through which she mentioned that she has "by no means" spoken to her husband about pending circumstances earlier than the Supreme Court docket, calling it an "iron clad rule in our house."
She additionally advised the committee that her husband is "tired of politics," and mentioned in her assertion, "I usually don't talk about with him my day-to-day work in politics, the matters I'm engaged on, who I'm calling, emailing, texting or assembly."
The committee requested Thomas to seem voluntarily after studying she corresponded with John Eastman, a conservative lawyer who helped craft the authorized technique to strain former Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally reject state electoral votes following the 2020 presidential election.
Thomas additionally despatched emails to not less than two Wisconsin Republican state lawmakers days after the election, pushing them to call an alternate slate of presidential electors to assist President Donald Trump. Thomas additionally corresponded through textual content message with former White Home chief of employees Mark Meadows within the days following the election, urging him to overturn the outcomes. Ginni Thomas denied her husband knew of her texts with Meadows.
The delayed Sept. 28 listening to was alleged to be the committee's ninth and remaining one and provides its members the possibility to disclose new data they realized over the summer season. The panel deliberate to draft an interim report in mid-October, Thompson mentioned final month, and finalize its report earlier than the tip of the 12 months.
The committee held a collection of eight public hearings early this summer season, throughout which it laid out what investigators mentioned was a multi-pronged marketing campaign from Trump and his allies to thwart the presidential switch of energy and preserve Trump in workplace.
The hearings featured beforehand unseen footage from Jan. 6, in addition to clips from video interviews from Trump's closest advisers within the White Home and out of doors allies, and in-person testimony from high Justice Division officers, state elections officers and former White Home aides.
The postponed listening to was anticipated to function clips from an upcoming documentary, shot over a three-year interval, that includes Roger Stone, a longtime casual adviser and ally to Trump, a supply accustomed to the committee's plans advised CBS Information final month. The supply mentioned the filmmaker gave the committee 14 clips from the documentary, referred to as "A Storm Foretold," which is predicted to be launched this 12 months.
Stone advised CBS Information in an announcement that he challenged the "accuracy and the authenticity of those movies and consider they've been manipulated and selectively edited." He additionally referred to as it "categorically false" that he "knew prematurely about, participated in or condoned any criminality" on Jan. 6.
"The excerpts you supplied beneath show nothing, definitely they don't show I had something to do with the occasions of Jan. 6. That being mentioned, it clearly exhibits I advocated for lawful congressional and judicial choices," he mentioned.
Caroline Linton, Jeff Pegues and Nikole Killion contributed to this report