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The chairman of the House select committee investigating Jan. 6, 2021, said Tuesday that the panel will hold a hearing next week.
Democratic Rep. Benny Thompson of Mississippi said the hearing will take place on Sept. 28 at 1 p.m. ET. The hearing, which has not been formally announced by the committee so far, will be the panel’s last until the final report, which is expected to be released by the end of the year.
“I can say that unless something else happens, this hearing is the last. But it’s not set in stone because it happened,” he said.
Thompson said the panel had already decided on the subject of the hearing, but he did not elaborate on what that would be. He said the topic would be one that the group has not explored before.
“We have a ton of footage of what happened that we haven’t used,” he told CNN. “We have significant witness testimony that we haven’t used in other hearings. So this is an example of using some of that material. Chance.”
The panel has not yet decided whether there will be in-person witnesses, but the chair said the panel will make a decision “very soon” on whether witnesses are involved.
“I will be hosting the hearing, and every member of the committee will have a role,” Thompson said.