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The House select committee investigating the January 6 2021 violent siege on the Capitol by misguided supporters of former President Donald Trump has reached a decision to delay hearing till July.
Rep. Bennie
Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the committee told reporters Wednesday that
the committee would hold off on the two final hearings it had planned for this
month, The Hill reports.
“We’ve taken
in some additional information that’s going to require additional work. So
rather than present hearings that have not been the quality of the hearings in
the past we made a decision to just move into sometime in July,” Thompson said,
according to The Hill.
“There’s
been a deluge of new evidence since we got started. And we just need to catch
our breath, go through the new evidence, and then incorporate it into the
hearings we have planned,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told reporters.
The delay
does not affect Thursday’s hearing as it would go on as scheduled.
Rep. Zoe
Lofgren (D-Calif.) described a “mountain of new information,” according to The
Hill.
“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.
The committee
has received more information from the National Archives to help in its
investigation. Some of the new information includes evidence such as recently
turned over video footage from a British documentarian of the attack as well as
interviews with former President Trump, his adult children and former Vice
President Mike Pence who has not agreed to speak to the committee.
“We have
gotten some additional information from a documentarian that we’ll have to
review and some additional NARA production that’s going to require a little
more time than we anticipated,” Thompson said, using the formal abbreviation
for the National Archives, according to The Hill.