The third hearing of the House select committee, which was scheduled for Wednesday and was supposed to detail how former President Donald Trump allegedly pushed the Department of Justice to spread his false claims that the 2020 election was rigged against him, has been postponed.
NBC News reported that the former acting Attorney General and ex-DOJ officials were expected to testify in person.
The committee doesn't have a new date for the hearing, but it is holding a separate hearing on Thursday.
A spokesman for the committee did not return a request for comment on whether the witnesses will be moved to Thursday or another day.
The initial findings of the investigation into the attack on the U.S. Capitol were released last Thursday. The riot delayed the confirmation of President Joe Biden's electoral college victory.
The panel wants to show that Trump is at the center of a multi-pronged conspiracy to overturn his loss in the 2020 election.
On Monday, the committee released details that focused heavily on the wide array of election- fraud conspiracies that Trump and some of his allies seized on and spread widely to try to convince the public that the election was stolen.
The committee played clips from interviews with former Trump officials, including former Attorney General William Barr, who warned Trump against making meritless claims of fraud.
It was doing a grave disservice to the country when Barr told him that it was crazy.
Barr thought he had lost contact with reality if he really believed this stuff. There wasn't any indication of interest in what the facts were.
The hearing was supposed to show how Trump tried to corruptly wield the DOJ as part of his bid to challenge the 2020 election and how the agency's leaders pushed back on him.
One of the two Republicans on the panel, Cheney, suggested that the hearing would detail Trump's attempt to install Jeffrey Clark, a DOJ lawyer, as acting attorney general and have him send letters to key states falsely claiming that the government has found evidence that could affect the election results.
The hearing would show how top officials in the DOJ threatened to resign and confronted Trump in the Oval Office.
The hearing would shed new light on efforts by some Republican lawmakers to get presidential pardons for their roles in trying to overturn the 2020 election, she said. She has named the congressman who tried to get Clark a promotion. The committee wanted to hear from the man.
It is not clear if the DOJ will be the focus of the hearing or if the committee will focus on how Trump pressured Mike Pence to reject Electoral College votes.
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