SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is holding its next public hearing on Thursday afternoon.
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The committee is expected to dive deeper into just how much former President Donald Trump knew about the insurrection before it happened, and how closely related he was to right-wing extremist groups.
U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a member of the House select committee, joined KCBS Radio's Melissa Culross and Eric Thomas on Wednesday morning to preview the upcoming hearing, which was originally scheduled for Sept. 26 but was postponed due to Hurricane Ian.
"Yes, there will be new material," she said. "Some of what we’re doing is refreshing the memory because it’s been a while since we had the first hearing, but we’re also bringing in new evidence. We've worked throughout the summer interviewing individuals and reviewing documents so we will be able to show some of what we’ve found as well."
Lofgren, who represents much of Santa Clara County, said that she thinks the committee so far has made a strong case about what really happened at the Capitol.
"Our job is to tell the truth, we've done that to the best of our ability," she said. "I do think that people who felt that this was just a walk in the park now realize that this was a vicious, violent attack against our system of government. It's really inexcusable."
The San Mateo native acknowledged that the committee interviewed Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who reportedly communicated with multiple Trump officials that helped push claims to reject the results of the 2020 presidential election. While Lofgren called Thomas “a little fact-free when it comes to her beliefs about the election," she underplayed her role in the investigation and said she didn’t "think (Thomas) was a major player in this plot."
Lofgren added that the results of the investigation will be revealed by the time Congress' current session closes, which is at the end of the year.
"We haven’t reached a final conclusion on that, it's not yet decided if we’ll have a hearing to go through each of those recommendations, we very well might, but there are some things that should be changed," she explained. "The changes don’t forgive the misconduct and illegal behavior that was engaged in but some steps that would make us less vulnerable for that kind of misconduct is what we’re looking at."
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