The House Jan. 6 committee’s last scheduled public hearing will be Oct. 13. Here’s what to expect.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob will have what’s likely to be its final televised hearing next week.
Here’s what to know and what we’ve learned so far.
When is the next hearing, and how can I watch it?
The next hearing will be Thursday, Oct. 13, at 1 p.m. Eastern.
This hearing, originally scheduled for late September, was postponed because of Hurricane Ian. The committee had planned to play footage showing how Trump’s allies, like operative Roger Stone, schemed to have Trump declare he won, regardless of what the results said, report The Post’s Dalton Bennett, Jon Swaine and Jacqueline Alemany.
The committee live-streams its hearings, and most major TV news stations have been airing all of the hearings in full, except for Fox News. (“In the past, Fox News does play our hearings if the hearing is in the daytime,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) told CNN on Sunday.)
The will have anchored coverage and analysis before the hearings on YouTube and washingtonpost.com. C-SPAN will air the hearing in full.
What to watch for
Despite more than a year of investigation and interviews with thousands of witnesses, there are still some major unanswered questions about the attack, and how to prevent a similar one in the future. Like:
Will the committee conclude that Trump committed a crime by intentionally trying to stop Congress’s confirmation of Joe Biden’s win on Jan. 6, 2021? Congress’s power is limited here: Ultimately, the Justice Department would have to decide whether to prosecute. But Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) said he thinks the committee should formally accuse Trump of crimes in the attack, noting that a federal judge said it’s likely that the former president broke several laws as he tried to overturn his election loss. But Schiff also told CNN on Sunday that the committee should come to such a decision unanimously, and it’s not clear there’s consensus on this — a referral could further inflame political tensions ahead of the midterm elections.
