This is the final hearing planned so far for the summer but the committee has left the door open for additional hearings to be scheduled.
The House January 6th Committee will be holding the last of its scheduled public hearings on Thursday evening.
This is the eighth hearing though only six were originally planned. There could be more if additional evidence becomes available.
The theme of this evening’s hearing will be Donald Trump’s dereliction of duty.
The Jan. 6 committee is holding a prime-time hearing on Thursday — the last of its planned summertime hearings. It will focus on the 187 minutes between when former President Donald Trump's Ellipse speech on Jan. 6 ended and his prerecorded video asking protesters to go home posted to Twitter later that afternoon.
According to select committee aides, it will also look at who was talking to Trump and about what, including when he was made aware of the attack on the Capitol and what aides and allies were doing.
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During those 187 minutes, pressure mounted for him to call off the mob and tell rioters to stop. For the committee, which has argued that Trump welcomed the violence, what he said to aides and what he was thinking is key.
If you permit a crime to occur even though you have the power to easily prevent that crime then you share in the guilt.
The hearing will be carried by most major news organizations. Audio coverage will be available on NPR stations across the US. You can also watch it via this YouTube feed directly from the committee.
The hearing starts at... 8:00 PM EDT 7:00 PM CDT 6:00 PM MDT 5:00 PM PDT 0000 GMT/UTC (strictly speaking, that's already Friday at Midnight in universal time)
