Georgia election officials in talks to testify to Jan. 6 committee

• Raffensperger, Georgia's Republican secretary of state, and Sterling, the chief operating officer for Raffensperger's office, resisted Trump's entreaties and publicly debunked his claims the election was stolen.
• Raffensperger's talks with the House committee were first reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Driving the news: The timing is still being worked out by the respective legal teams, according to a source familiar with the matter. The two would testify together as part of a panel, after being subpoenaed by the committee.

• The committee is planning at least six public hearings, the first of which is slated for Thursday.
• Committee member Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said the hearings will "demonstrate the multi-pronged effort to overturn a presidential election, how one strategy to subvert the election led to another, culminating in a violent attack on our democracy."

The big picture: This would not be the first time the two have testified about Trump's attempts to recruit him to overturn the election.

• Raffensperger spoke to a special grand jury last week as part of the Atlanta district attorney's probe of Trump's election schemes in Georgia.
• Sterling plans to testify to the grand jury as well with other Raffensperger staffers.
• Raffensperger and Sterling also reportedly spoke privately with the Jan. 6 committee late last year.