'It'll change history': Jan. 6 panel hypes first public hearing

The Jan. 6 committee is raising expectations, saying the hearing will be packed with new video and audio proving that Trump was at the heart of the attack.

WASHINGTON — The House Jan. 6 committee is raising expectations for its first public hearing Thursday, saying the prime-time event will be packed with new video, audio and other information proving that former President Donald Trump was at the heart of the attack. 

“We will be revealing new details showing that the violence on Jan. 6 was the result of a coordinated, multistep effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to stop the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden,” a committee aide said in a call previewing the hearing with reporters on Wednesday afternoon, “and indeed that the former president Donald Trump was at the center of that effort.”

The committee’s pledge to present compelling new evidence is a risky proposition. 

The promise of new details may tempt more people to watch and see for themselves what the panel has uncovered. But that also means the committee is on the hook to deliver. Unless members roll out fresh evidence, the hearings may go down as an overhyped bust.

Jan. 6 committee to televise hearings beginning ThursdayJune 6, 202202:24The 90-minute hearing, the first of at least six planned for this month, kicks off at 8 p.m. ET Thursday, and will be carried live on all of the major news networks except for Fox News Channel.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/preview-jan-6-panel-hypes-first-public-hearing-rcna32618

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