January 6 committee plans prime-time hearing next week

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol is considering a second televised hearing next week, this one during prime time Thursday, people familiar with the planning said.
Those people did not provide a specific topic or say whether the interim hearing, which would be the committee’s eighth since June, would be the last until a report on its findings is presented in late August or September.
The committee did not formally announce plans for a hearing on Thursday and a spokesperson did not confirm that a hearing was scheduled.
The panel has scheduled a daytime hearing for Tuesday, focusing on the activities of far-right fringe groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers who entered the Capitol to disrupt Electoral College certification.
Panel members previously outlined plans for a final hearing to focus on the 187 minutes it took then-President Donald Trump to tell rioters to leave the Capitol and go home that day. -the.
Committee member Jamie Raskin said in an online Lincoln Project forum on Wednesday evening that the panel was also set to outline efforts to lobby then-Vice President Mike Pence. , for him to reject Electoral College votes from a handful of states that gave Joe Biden his election victory. Pence, who was the chairman of this congressional certification process, ultimately declined to do so on January 6, 2021.
—Billy House, Bloomberg News (TNS)