Jan. 6 Committee Delays Remaining Hearings to Unspecified Date

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s hand-picked committee investigating the Capitol incursion of 2021 has delayed its hearings. The chairman of the committee, Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, announced that the…

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“I don’t think we’ve established a date yet, but we have a mountain of new information that’s come in that we have to go through,” Lofgren told The Hill.

Some of the new evidence that committee members are referring to includes video footage from documentarian Alex Holder.

Thompson said that the committee received footage from Holder that included previously unseen footage of former President Donald Trump and his family, CNN reported. Thompson said he has reviewed some of the footage from Holder and he characterized it as “important.”

Formerly, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming said the committee’s final two hearings would look into Trump and his role in getting people to go to the Capitol.

Hearings would show “a moment-by-moment account of the hourslong attack from more than a half dozen White House staff, both live in the hearing room and via videotaped testimony,” Cheney said, NBC News reported.

Thus far, the hearings of the committee have included viewing footage, hearing testimony from witnesses and statements from lawmakers, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The schedule of the committee and hearings moving forward is still very fluid and could continue to change.

Along with citing new evidence as a reason to pause, the House is also set to be in recess after the Fourth of July holiday until the week of July 11.

One committee aide told CNN that the committee might provide more information on the schedule moving forward during Thursday’s hearing.

“The Select Committee continues to receive additional evidence relevant to our investigation into the violence of January 6th and its causes,” the aide said.

“Following tomorrow’s hearing, we will be holding additional hearings in the coming weeks. We will announce dates and times for those hearings soon.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.