{"id":1515211,"date":"2022-06-14T11:20:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T15:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515211"},"modified":"2022-06-14T12:07:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T16:07:57","slug":"january-6-committee-postpones-its-upcoming-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/january-6-committee-postpones-its-upcoming-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"January 6 Committee Postpones Its Upcoming Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjanuary-6-committee-postpones-its-upcoming-hearing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515211&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The House Select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot postponed its Wednesday hearing.<\/p>\n<p>No reason has currently been given for the postponement, though the hearing set for Thursday will still be held, The Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/news\/house\/3522529-jan-6-committee-postpones-wednesday-hearing\/?email=d1de3e639d7dc123a435bb5076426b6d715a0f97&#038;emaila=56b2922aa75db42e69d122704a1046cb&#038;emailb=bf707b901b554730181bbc609e50c98b17eaf84247ffc7a818b3b806c416edcb&#038;utm_source=Sailthru&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=06.14.22%20KB%20The%20Hill%20-%20Breaking%20News%20J6%20hearing%20postponed&#038;utm_term=Breaking%20News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue and former Office of Legal Counsel head Steven Engel were reportedly expected to appear at the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Rosen and Donahue voluntarily chose to testify and previously spoke with the Senate Judiciary Committee in October, The Hill reported. The committee had said Wednesday\u2019s hearing would focus on former President Donald Trump\u2019s attempt to \u201creplace the Attorney General\u201d to spread \u201d his false stolen election claims.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wednesday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/January6thCmte?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@January6thCmte<\/a> hearing has been postponed. Thursday\u2019s hearing is still scheduled as planned. More as we learn it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CBSNews<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert Costa (@costareports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/costareports\/status\/1536704650421870593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wednesday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/January6thCmte?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@January6thCmte<\/a> hearing has been postponed. Thursday\u2019s hearing is still scheduled as planned. More as we learn it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CBSNews<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Robert Costa (@costareports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/costareports\/status\/1536704650421870593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn our third hearing, you will see that President Trump corruptly planned to replace the Attorney General so the U.S. Justice Department would spread his false stolen election claims,\u201d Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney said Thursday, according to The Hill. \u201cIn the days before Jan. 6 President Trump told his top Justice Department officials: \u2018Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.&#8217;\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/13\/adam-schiff-russian-collusion-donald-trump-jan-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Adam Schiff Claims He Has \u2018Powerful\u2019 Evidence About Trump And Jan 6)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/16\/juan-williams-donald-trumps-election-fraud-claims-2024-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pressured<\/a> Rosen to investigate election fraud, label the election as \u201ccorrupt\u201d and force Georgia to overturn its results in the 2020 presidential election, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/22\/us\/politics\/jeffrey-clark-trump-justice-department-election.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to the New York Times. The former president reportedly called on Rosen to be ousted for refusing to go along with those plans.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General William Barr privately told the former president that the Department of Justice found no evidence of widespread election fraud after conducting an investigation into voting regularities, The Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>The postponement of Wednesday\u2019s hearing came a day after the committee lost its key witness, former Trump campaign manager <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/13\/pelosis-political-theater-lost-star-witness-bill-stepien\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Stepien<\/a>, for Tuesday\u2019s hearing after his wife had reportedly gone into labor. The hearing was then delayed for 30-40 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot postponed its Wednesday hearing.No reason has currently been given for the postponement, though the hearing set for Thursday will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1515277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1515277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}