Nearly a year since its inception, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will go public with its findings starting tonight. It’s the first in a series of hearings that will take place over the next several weeks. Tonight, the nine-member panel plans to give an overview of its 11-month investigation. More than 1,000 people have been interviewed by the panel, and only snippets of that testimony have been revealed to the public, mostly through court filings.
The committee plans to unveil previously unseen footage from the attack on the Capitol, conduct interviews with Trump White House staffers, and also play videos of its interviews with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, according to the Washington Post.
The hearing reportedly will also include testimony from Nick Quested, a documentary filmmaker who was following the right-wing group The Proud Boys as the Capitol was attacked, and Caroline Edwards, a Capitol police officer who was injured, according to Deadline.
Tonight’s hearing is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. ET. C-SPAN and each major network — except Fox News, which is not covering the hearings in full — will add analysis and reporting.
The livestream may also be viewed on YouTube by clicking here. It is also available on the House Jan. 6th Committee website.
The second televised hearing will be held Monday, June 13, at 10 a.m. ET.
What you need to know ahead of the hearing:
When will the hearing take place?
The first of six hearings is set to go live at 8 p.m. ET on Thursday. It will take place in a large House office building in the U.S. Capitol complex. Lawmakers plan to have witnesses testify and to display a series of never-before-seen images and exhibits relating to the lead-up to the insurrection and the attack itself.
Who is expected to testify?
The select committee has yet to release details about who is expected to testify Thursday. But the public hearing, unlike other committee hearings, will be a mixture of traditional testimony as well as a multimedia presentation.
What will the hearing entail?
The first hearing is expected to be a table-setter for the rest of the subsequent hearings. The committee, composed of seven Democrats and two Republicans, plans to lay out several areas of information it has gathered throughout its investigation.
The panel’s probe has so far been divided into a series of focus areas, including the efforts by former President Trump and his allies to cast doubt on the election and halt the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory; the financing and organizing of rallies in Washington that took place before the attack; security failures by Capitol police and federal agencies; and the actions of the rioters themselves.
Will there be new details about the insurrection?
Several members of the committee have promised new and explosive information to arise from the public hearings, but it remains unclear what that will entail.
The hearings are expected to be exhaustive but not the final word from the committee. It plans to release subsequent reports on its findings, including recommendations on legislative reforms, ahead of the midterm elections.
GPB News contributed to this report
