Jan. 6 committee announces surprise hearing for Tuesday on new evidence

Chairperson Bennie Thompson (D-MS) attends the third of eight planned public hearings of the U.S. House Select Committee to investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 16, 2022.

A new hearing will be held on Tuesday to present recently obtained evidence and get witness testimony.

There will be a surprise hearing at 1p.m. The time was announced Monday afternoon. It wasn't clear what the committee would reveal. The person slated to testify was not identified by the panel.

The fifth public hearing focused on how former President Donald Trump pressured the Department of Justice to help him overturn his loss to President Joe Biden.

The committee was going to hold seven hearings on the initial findings from its investigation into the Capitol attack.

The hearings were supposed to take place in June. The chairman of the committee said last week that the final hearings in the series would take place in July.

The committee obtained never-before-seen documentary footage from a film maker with access to Trump and his family before and after the riot.

The bipartisan committee has put Trump at the center of a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results that led to the violence at the Capitol in January.

A central component of the committee's case against the former president is that he spread false claims of widespread election fraud.

The final two public hearings of the committee will focus on how Trump illegally directed his supporters towards the Capitol, then failed to take quick action to stop the attack once it began.

There is no power for the committee to file criminal charges against Trump or anyone else. Federal prosecutors are watching the hearings, according to Attorney General Garland.

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