for you obstruction of justice fans
Tomorrow's hearing is on Trump's attempts to purge and pressure at the Department of Justice

Jan. 6 committee delays hearing schedule until July

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the committee, told reporters Wednesday that the committee would hold off on the two final hearings it had planned for this month.

“We’ve taken in some additional information that’s going to require additional work. So rather than present hearings that have not been the quality of the hearings in the past we made a decision to just move into sometime in July,” Thompson said.

Thursday’s hearing will continue as planned.

“There’s been a deluge of new evidence since we got started. And we just need to catch our breath, go through the new evidence, and then incorporate it into the hearings we have planned,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told reporters.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) similarly mentioned a “mountain of new information.”

“I don’t think we’ve established a date yet, but we have a mountain of new information that’s come in that we have to go through,” Lofgren told The Hill.

The committee has recently received more information from the National Archives, and Raskin said it has also received information from other various sources — a comment that comes after the committee flashed its web address in the hopes of enticing new witnesses.

The new evidence includes recently turned over video footage from a British documentarian of the attack as well as interviews with former President Trump, his adult children and former Vice President Mike Pence — a figure the committee has been unable to convince to speak to investigators.

“We have gotten some additional information from a documentarian that we’ll have to review and some additional NARA production that’s going to require a little more time than we anticipated,” Thompson said, using the formal abbreviation for the National Archives.

The shift will leave Thursday’s hearing as the final event for the month of June. That session will focus on Trump’s pressure campaign at the Department of Justice.



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There are quickly engendering "Hearing" fatigue. Why not just dump the rest on July 4th weekend and be done with it? NO ONE is groking why crimes committed 18months ago haven't resulted in indictments and attests arrests* 6 months ago.

*arrests are clearly more compelling than attestations.



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RgrF
There are quickly engendering "Hearing" fatigue. Why not just dump the rest on July 4th weekend and be done with it? NO ONE is groking why crimes committed 18months ago haven't resulted in indictments and attests 6 months ago.

Maybe they should be doing it like the Watergate Hearings...

"...television news outlets brought the drama of the hearings to the living rooms of millions of American households, broadcasting the proceedings live for two weeks in May 1973."

"Some 319 hours were broadcast overall, and 85% of U.S. households watched some portion of them. The audio feed also was broadcast, gavel-to-gavel, on scores of National Public Radio stations, making the hearings available to people in their cars and workplaces"

Couldn't happen. The media landscape wasn't fractured like it is today and even then far fewer were going to voluntarily listen to Sam Ervin drone on if there was a channel to turn to that doesn't feature cartoons.

Oh almost forgot - ADD had yet to set in.



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RgrF
There are quickly engendering "Hearing" fatigue. Why not just dump the rest on July 4th weekend and be done with it? NO ONE is groking why crimes committed 18months ago haven't resulted in indictments and attests arrests* 6 months ago.

*arrests are clearly more compelling than attestations.

He said this:

"We’ve taken in some additional information that’s going to require additional work."