6 Committee Returns from Eventful Break for Latest – and Likely Final – Hearing 

The House panel investigating the attack on the Capitol will return Thursday for what’s expected to be its final hearing, tasked with packaging new revelations to the public and tying up its investigation before year’s end – or perhaps sooner. 

Months after the Jan. 6 committee wrapped its summer series, Thursday’s hearing – which was rescheduled due to Hurricane Ian two weeks ago – will likely serve as closing arguments to its slew of public events. It comes just weeks before the midterm elections and as the committee looks to conclude the larger investigation that has gathered testimony from hundreds of witnesses and reviewed thousands of documents over the past 15 months. 

But the panel has remained tight-lipped about the hearing’s focus. Nevertheless, it stands to feature “new material” that the panel has discovered over the summer on former President Donald Trump’s “intentions,” “what he knew,” and “what he did,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California said in an interview with CNN on Tuesday.

Another committee member, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, previously explained on NBC that, while the committee has already painted a picture of the “basic elements” of “an organized, premeditated, deliberate hit against the vice president and the Congress to overthrow the 2020 presidential election” in its previous hearings, it’s now looking to “fill in” some of the details “that have come to the attention of the committee over the last five or six weeks.

Through its series of hearings beginning in June, the select committee featured prominently an effort to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the election results, along with putting pressure on the Justice Department, state election officials and ballot counters, a plan to create fraudulent electoral slates in states and ultimately an endeavor to spread falsehoods about the 2020 election and summon a mob to Washington. At the center of it all, the committee has argued – and will likely conclude on Thursday as it makes what could be its final pitch to the public – is Trump.

In its most recent hearing in late July, the committee centered on Trump's behavior on Jan. 6, and appeared to tee up additional hearings looking into what happened the day after the storming of the Capitol and beyond. In the days that followed, the panel released new footage, which included testimony from White House insiders, revealing that talk of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove a president from office began circulating following the attack.