Next Jan. 6 committee hearing will reveal 'pretty surprising' new material, Rep. Zoe Lofgren says

The House Jan. 6 prime committee's adjacent nationalist proceeding volition uncover caller worldly astir erstwhile President Donald Trump's plans and however overmuch helium knew astir the Capitol riot, 1 of the panel's members said Tuesday.

The committee's ninth nationalist proceeding volition interaction connected the "close ties betwixt radical successful Trump satellite and immoderate of these extremist groups," Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said successful a CNN interview.

But "that's not the lone happening the proceeding volition beryllium about," Lofgren said. "We're going to beryllium going through, truly immoderate of what we've already found, but augmenting with caller worldly that we've discovered done our enactment passim this summer."

That involves focusing connected Trump's intentions, she said, including "what helium knew, what helium did, what others did."

"I bash deliberation that it volition beryllium worthy watching," Lofgren said. "There's immoderate caller worldly that, you know, I recovered arsenic we got into it, beauteous surprising."

The proceeding is acceptable for 1 p.m. ET connected Thursday. It was primitively scheduled for precocious past month, but connected the eve of the proceeding the committee leaders opted to hold it, citing the large hurricane bearing down connected Florida astatine the time.

Later that aforesaid week, the committee interviewed Virginia Thomas, the woman of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, for astir 3.5 hours. Thomas, who goes by Ginni, had reportedly pushed Trump medication officials and others to effort to situation President Joe Biden's electoral triumph successful 2020.

Thomas was not videotaped during her interrogation with the committee, Lofgren said implicit the play successful an MSNBC interview. It is unclear if Ginni Thomas' grounds volition diagnostic successful Thursday's hearing.

Asked to beryllium much circumstantial astir the alleged ties betwixt "Trump world" and the extremist groups, Lofgren said, "Let's conscionable accidental that the mob was led by immoderate extremist groups, they plotted successful beforehand what they were going to do, and those individuals were known to radical successful the Trump orbit."

The committee is investigating the facts and circumstances surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, erstwhile a convulsive mob of then-President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. The insurrection forced lawmakers to fly their chambers and temporarily stopped them from confirming President Joe Biden's triumph implicit Trump successful the 2020 election.

The committee besides faces an end-of-the-year deadline to taxable a last study to the president and Congress containing its findings. That study volition see recommended argumentation changes to marque U.S. elections much unafraid successful the future, Lofgren told CNN connected Tuesday.

Before the proceeding was postponed connected Sept. 27, NBC News reported that the sheet was expected to amusement clips of Roger Stone, a longtime governmental operative and confidant of Trump's, talking astir challenging the 2020 predetermination results.