The Jan. 6 select committee tasked with investigating the deadly attack on the Capitol is poised to deliver its final public hearing before the midterm election cycle on Thursday, with the panel slated to show a slew of new footage and present an overview of attempts to overturn the 2020 election results.
The hearing won’t feature witnesses, according to one committee aide, but is expected to provide a broader look into the events leading up to the breach of the Capitol, when pro-Trump rioters stormed the building in an attempt to disrupt the certification of the election results.
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“There will be new video footage shown showing efforts to respond in real time to the violence of January as that violence was unfolding compared to the hearings in June, July. This one is gonna look a little bit different — in June, July, the hearings zeroed in for the most part on a particular topic as we laid out a multistep plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election and block the transfer of power,” the aide told reporters.
“What we’re going to be doing is taking a step back, and we’re going to be looking at that entire plan, the entire multipart plan to overturn the election — looking at it in a broader context and in a broader timeline as well. There’s going to be some discussion of events that took place prior to Election Day, there’s going to be some looking at events that took place after Jan. 6, and we’re going to bring a particular focus on the former president’s state of mind and his involvement in these events as they unfolded,” the aide said. “So what you’re gonna see is a synthesis of some evidence we’ve already presented.”
Since the last public hearing, the committee has heard from a number of high-profile witnesses behind closed doors, including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife, Ginni Thomas, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao — opening the possibility of clips from their depositions being unveiled.
The hearing also comes in the wake of the Secret Service providing a sizable number of electronic communications leading up to the siege.
While Election Day is just 25 days away, multiple Republicans said they are skeptical that the hearing will move the needle in terms of swaying the public to vote for Democrats.
“With the caveat of we don’t know what’s going to be brought up and the committee always knows more than we do, it’s still hard to see how this really impacts the elections. And I’ve always been dubious that the hearings would impact the elections,” one GOP strategist told the Washington Examiner.
“You know, there’s been a lot of complaining that, you know, this is too close. And it’s politicizing things. But if you look at the ads that candidates are running, they’re not talking about this. And part of that is Trump’s not on the ballot, so they could have a hearing the day before the elections,” the strategist added.
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Another senior Republican said that while they feel the information being revealed is important, they don’t see it as having a substantial impact.
“I would say that, you know, early voting has already started. This committee hearing will not make any difference. Because if they haven’t been able to make a difference for the last few months, this last hearing isn’t going to do it,” the source said.
