Story · June 14, 2022

Jan. 6 committee postpones Wednesday hearing, keeps Thursday session on calendar

Hearing delay Confidence 5/5
★★★☆☆Fuckup rating 3/5
Major mess Ranked from 1 to 5 stars based on the scale of the screwup and fallout.
Correction: Correction: The committee postponed its planned Wednesday hearing on June 14, but Thursday’s hearing remained scheduled separately.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol postponed its planned Wednesday hearing on June 14, but left its Thursday session in place. The change came as the panel said it needed more time to finish assembling video evidence for the hearing it had planned for Wednesday. ([docs.house.gov](https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=114923&utm_source=openai))

The committee’s calendar entry for the hearing was updated on June 14, and the hearing page identifies the meeting as first published that evening. That record shows the panel had a hearing scheduled, but not that the postponed Wednesday session had simply been moved wholesale to Thursday. ([docs.house.gov](https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=114923&utm_source=openai))

In practical terms, the delay kept the committee’s week of public hearings alive while pushing the Wednesday program back for later consideration. Thursday’s hearing remained scheduled separately. ([january6th-benniethompson.house.gov](https://january6th-benniethompson.house.gov/watch-live?utm_source=openai))

The committee had been using its public sessions to lay out what Trump and his aides were told about the 2020 election, and what happened after those warnings failed to change his public false claims of fraud. The day’s scheduling change did not alter that broader case; it just changed when the committee planned to present the next slice of evidence. ([january6th-benniethompson.house.gov](https://january6th-benniethompson.house.gov/watch-live?utm_source=openai))

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