The January 6 Committee hearings are returning to television on Thursday for the first time since the summer, with the upcoming session set to reveal new material about former President Donald Trump's plans and how much he knew about the Capitol riot, a panel member recently said.
The committee's ninth public hearing was originally slated for late September, but committee members decided to delay it due to Hurricane Ian, which was sweeping through Florida at the time.
Thursday's hearing will touch on "close ties between people in Trump world and some of these extremist groups," panel member Representative Zoe Logren, a California Democrat, told CNN in an interview on Tuesday.
"We're going to be going through, really some of what we've already found, but augmenting with new material that we've discovered through our work throughout this summer," Logren added.
The hearing is for 1 p.m. ET on Thursday. It will be on all major news networks, including CNN, C-SPAN and CBS. It will also be available to stream live on YouTube here.
It will be the first session since the FBI raided Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida in a search for classified documents in early August.
The bi-partisan select committee, which was formed over a year ago, has been investigating the circumstances around the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots.
Trump gave a speech outside the White House that day saying that the election results were fraudulent and invalid, without providing any evidence. His supporters, including some that were present at that "stop the steal" rally, breached the Capitol building to try to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden's win over Trump in the 2020 election.
More than 800 people have been charged in connection with the incident and a bipartisan Senate report in July found that at least seven people lost their lives in connection with the riots.
So far, there have been eight public committee hearings, which began in June. The hearings have reviewed and broadcast footage of the riots and testimony about January 6 that has never been seen or heard before.
The findings have been damning for Trump, who has strongly hinted he is considering a 2024 run for a second presidential term.
The committee has revealed how Trump administration officials didn't believe the former president's claims of voter fraud and how a string of Republican lawmakers sought presidential pardons for their roles in trying to overturn the election, and how, when some of the rioters stormed the Capitol and shouted "Hang Mike Pence!", Trump's vice president, Trump allegedly said, "he deserves it."
The panel also revealed that Trump himself tried to pressure Pence to block Biden from becoming president on January 6.
The hearings also revealed how Trump allegedly refused to listen to those saying that he had lost the 2020 election to Biden, and that there was no widespread voter fraud. Trump and his inner circle also were revealed to have pressured other officials to overturn the election results prior to January 6.
Perhaps one of the most damning indictments from the public hearings was when Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, said that Trump was aware that the "stop the steal" protesters were armed but still told them to march to the Capitol. She said that Trump was allegedly so irate that he was unable to join his supporters at the Capitol, he tried to grab the steering wheel of the presidential limousine and then lunged at the Secret Service who tried to calm him down.
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