The Jan. 6 committee has postponed its Wednesday hearing and will next meet Thursday
The third Jan. 6 committee hearing scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed to an as-yet unknown day, the panel said in a statement Tuesday.
The committee's release does not offer an explanation, but a source familiar said the move was a result of scheduling conflicts.
The committee's next hearing will take place Thursday, June 16.
Jan. 6 committee member Pete Aguilar said the hearing would likely be moved to next week, although he cautioned that the calendar continues to be fluid.
The panel scheduled seven total hearings throughout June to discuss their months-long investigation into the connection between former President Donald Trump's voter fraud conspiracy claims and the insurrection on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
It is unclear how the postponement of Wednesday's hearing will impact the
planned focus for each hearing the panel laid out last week.
Former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, who took over after William Barr left in the wake of the election, was scheduled to appear at Wednesday's hearing, along with former DOJ officials Richard Donoghue and Steven Engel. Wednesday's hearing was expected to focus on Trump's pressure on the Justice Department to spread election false claims.
Thursday's hearing was set to focus on the former president's pressure on then-Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to count electoral votes.
Monday's hearing focused on Trump's role in perpetuating the lie that the 2020 election was stolen as the panel continued to make its case that former was the central character responsible for what happened on Jan. 6. Witness testimony and recorded interviews presented by the committee showed that many Trump advisers
knew the election wasn't stolen and told him so, but he ignored them. Instead, he listened to those in his inner circle, like Rudy Giuliani, who urged him to declare victory on election night and embrace claims of massive voter fraud.
Giuliani calls the claim he was inebriated on election night a lie
In a later deleted tweet on Tuesday, former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani denied claims that he was intoxicated on election night when he urged him to declare victory.
In one video interview clip presented at
Monday's hearing, Jason Miller, a senior adviser to the campaign, referenced an inebriated Giuliani wanting to speak to Trump to tell him to say "We won. They're stealing it from us."
Miller told the committee in his recorded testimony that the former New York mayor "was definitely intoxicated" when he talked to him that night.
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Jan. 6 committee postpones its next hearing : NPR