January 6 Committee Sets Surprise Hearing For Tuesday; Broadcast Nets To Air Live
27.06.2022 - 22:43
/ deadline.com
The January 6 Committee has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, a surprise move at a time when Congress is out of session and the committee had said it was going on a break until after the recess.
The news comes as the House select panel has been examining footage from Alex Holder’s upcoming three-part Discovery+ documentary Unprecedented that had access to Donald Trump and the White House at the time of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
No details on the substance of the hearing were revealed, but broadcasters ABC and CBS and NBC as well as Fox, CNN and MSNBC have said they will break in to regular programming to cover the session when it begins at 1 p.m. ET.
The committee, which last met Thursday, only said that Tuesday’s hearing is to “present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony.” A source tells Deadline however that the hearing is almost certain to include footage from the Holder doc, which the committee only received within the past week.
“Don’t expect this to be a smokin’ gun, but it adds a new dimension to what happened on January 6th,” the source said.
Holder gave a deposition to the January 6th Committee on Thursday over the documentary he made about Trump. The filmmaker said he had been shooting footage at Trump’s rally that morning at the Ellipse as well as when he went with his director of photography to the chaos unfolding at the Capitol.
The filmmaker told Deadline in an interview that he would testify in public if asked by the committee, which is investigating the January 6 insurrection.
Holder has said he received “unparalleled access and exclusive interviews” with Trump, his children, his son-in-law Jared Kushner and Vice President Mike Pence. CNN reported that Holder’s attorney, Russell