The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol will hold its ninth hearing next week, and it will likely be the panel’s last before releasing its final report by the end of the year.
The Jan. 6 committee will reconvene publicly at 1 p.m. EDT on Sept. 28 and is expected to feature “substantial footage” of the Capitol riot and “significant witness testimony” that has not been previously seen, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said on Tuesday. The hearing comes as the panel is racing to finalize its report on its yearlong investigation into the events leading up to the attack on the Capitol.
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“I can say that, unless something else develops, this hearing, at this point, is the final hearing,” Thompson, the chairman of the committee, said. “But it’s not in stone because things happen.”
It’s not yet clear what the substance of the hearing will be, but each of the eight other public meetings over the summer had a specific theme seeking to tie former President Donald Trump’s actions in the weeks after the election to the Capitol riot. It also hasn’t been decided whether the hearing will feature live testimony, but Thompson said that would be announced “shortly.”
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Each hearing up until this point has been largely led by one or two committee members at a time, but Thompson said next week’s hearing would include each member with a role.
Next week’s public hearing will be the first since the FBI conducted its raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in August, although it’s unclear whether that search has provided any fodder in the committee’s investigation.
