The release of the final report will likely come close to the end of the year so the panel can maximize its time. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the panel’s chairman, has said there may be an interim report in the fall. But lawmakers could issue some smaller reports before then, perhaps even before the November elections. The committee must shut down within a month after issuing a final report, per its rules. She contacted lawmakers in Arizona and Wisconsin as part of that effort. Lawmakers want to know more about her role in trying to help Trump overturn the election. The committee has also pursued an interview with conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, who’s married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Certainly, we’re very focused as well on the Secret Service.” “We anticipate talking to additional members of his campaign. “We anticipate talking to additional members of the president’s Cabinet,” Cheney said at the beginning of August. 5-6, 2021, which could shed further light on Trump’s actions during the insurrection, particularly after earlier testimony about his confrontation with security as he tried to join supporters at the Capitol. The committee also wants to get to the bottom of missing Secret Service texts from Jan. The committee just recently spoke to several of the Cabinet secretaries, including former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in July and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao in August. The panel has already interviewed more than 1,000 people, but lawmakers and staff are still pursuing new threads. The committee conducted several interviews at the end of July and into August with Trump’s Cabinet secretaries, some of whom had discussed invoking the constitutional process in the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office after the insurrection. It’s unclear if the next hearings will provide a general overview of what the panel has learned or if they will be focused on new information and evidence. “Doors have opened, new subpoenas have been issued and the dam has begun to break,” Cheney said at a July 21 hearing that was held in prime time and watched by 17.7 million people. Liz Cheney, the Republican vice chairwoman, said the committee “has far more evidence to share with the American people and more to gather.” The committee is expected to hold at least one hearing, maybe more, before the end of the month. So the panel is planning to issue a final report by the end of December. If Republicans take the majority in November’s elections, as they are favored to do, they are expected to dissolve the committee in January. 6 panel is a temporary, or “select,” committee, it expires at the end of the current Congress. Members are expected to meet and discuss some of their next steps on Tuesday.īecause the Jan. The nine-member panel - seven Democrats and two Republicans - interviewed witnesses through all of August, and they are planning at least one hearing this month. Witnesses interviewed by the panel - some of them Trump’s closest allies - recounted in videotaped testimony how the former president declined to act when hundreds of his supporters violently attacked the Capitol as Congress certified Biden’s victory on Jan. The committee has already revealed much of its work at eight hearings over the summer, showing in detail how former President Donald Trump ignored many of his closest advisers and amplified his false claims of election fraud after he lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden. 6 committee is eyeing a close to its work and a final report laying out its findings about the U.S. WASHINGTON (AP) - With only three months left in the year, the House Jan.

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