January 6 Committee Abruptly Postpones Hearing in Unusual Move
The House Committee investigating events at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has unexpectedly postponed hearings that were set to take place on June 15. The hearing was set to take place at 10 a.m. on June 15, but will now…
The House Committee investigating events at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has unexpectedly postponed hearings that were set to take place on June 15.
The hearing was set to take place at 10 a.m. on June 15, but will now be held on June 16, NBC News reported. It is unclear why there has been this postponement.
The witnesses supposed to testify at this hearing were former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue and former assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel Steve Engel.
Overall, the Jan. 6 committee has scheduled a total of seven hearings to discuss the findings of the investigation they have been running for months.
The committee says that it is looking into connections between former President Donald Trump’s voter fraud claims and the incursion at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, NPR reported.
The hearing now being held on June 16 is expected to focus on seeing whether Trump pressured the Justice Department.
Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming said that this third hearing would offer evidence about Trump’s plan to boot Rosen out of the Justice Department and then replace him with Jeffrey Clark, a DOJ official who was more supportive of Trump’s fraud claims.