After a two-month hiatus, the House Jan. 6 committee appears to be winding down an investigation that made and broke political careers among the nine members while providing the fullest account yet of what happened the day the peaceful transfer of power was nearly subverted.
The committee had been planning to hold another hearing on Wednesday but postponed it due to the hurricane approaching Florida. In a statement Tuesday, committee leaders said they would “soon” announce the date of the ninth hearing — the first since July.
Once rescheduled, the hearing is to be a valedictory of sorts, with the committee diverting from a format that leaned heavily on a few members at a time and instead giving all nine a chance to take the microphone and lead various segments.
“Each member will have a section of the hearing to talk about,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the panel’s chairman, told reporters recently. “And so rather than a chair and a vice chair opening and closing, we’ll do our part and each member will have a particular portion of the hearing to lead.”
Members haven’t explicitly said the next hearing will be their last. They still need to produce a written report on their findings over the past 14 months. But with the Justice Department now ramping up its criminal investigation into the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, the committee’s relevance has begun to fade, one of its members acknowledged.
“We’re really transitioning here into, ‘We need to get this report written,’” the member said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the panel’s thinking. “I see it as, look, we did a great job and at some point, it’s like, take the victory and now it’s in DOJ’s hands.”
While much of the next hearing will revisit the committee’s revelations during the course of its inquiry, the vice-chairwoman, Rep. Liz Cheney, R., Wyo., said some “new information, new evidence” will be presented “because the investigation goes on.” On Monday, the panel subpoenaed Robin Vos, the Wisconsin Assembly speaker who said former President Donald Trump had tried to pressure him in July to overturn the results of the presidential election that occurred 20 months earlier.
Video clips from a documentary that follows Trump adviser Roger Stone leading up to the Jan. 6 riot will likely be part of a multimedia presentation at the committee’s next hearing, sources told NBC News.
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