Wednesday hearing postponed

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol has postponed its Wednesday hearing slated to review former President Trump’s efforts to pressure the Justice Department to investigate his unfounded claims of election fraud.

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Former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, his deputy Richard Donoghue and Steven Engle, then the head of the Office of Legal Counsel, were all expected to appear before the committee on Wednesday.

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Donoghue told the committee he told Trump, “What you are proposing is nothing less than the United States Justice Department meddling in the outcome of a presidential election.”

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“There’s no big deal, but I’ll tell you the putting together the video and exhibits is an exhausting exercise for our very small video staff. So we’re trying to — we were going to have 1-2-3 in one week and it’s just it’s too much to put it all together. So we’re trying to give them a little room to do their technical work, is mainly it,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), one of the committee’s members, said on “Morning Joe” on MSNBC on Tuesday.

  The Hill

"Mainly" it? What's the rest? Because it seems the video staff should already have most of that stuff done. But maybe the last-minute need to pull out Bill Stepien's video in place of his live testimony threw them off schedule. That actually only made them delay the hearing by 45 minutes, though, to pull together video.

Thursday's hearing is supposedly going ahead.

I have a feeling that the rest of the story might be that one or more of the Wednesday folks is balking. Or maybe there has been some new evidence connected to one or more of them. I just find it difficult to believe that the video crew needs more time.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.