Jan. 6 committee weighs changes to hearing schedule, citing new evidence

What they’re saying: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the panel, told reporters after the committee’s fourth hearing on Tuesday, "The original hearings would have wrapped up in June, but we are picking up new evidence on a daily basis with enormous velocity."

• "We're constantly incorporating and including the new information that is coming out," Raskin continued. "We need to get back and meet … we're going to have to take stock of all the new evidence we've received and then figure it out."
• Raskin credited the hearings with surging public interest in the panel’s work: "I think that people are seeing that we're running a serious investigation … and a lot of people coming forward now with information."
• Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), also a member of the committee, told Axios "the schedule is fluid" and that the panel may take "a little more time before we have certain hearings."

Between the lines: Discussions concerning the schedule are ongoing and include the possibility of additional hearings that were not previously announced, a source familiar with the matter tells Axios.

State of play: The committee had planned a total of seven public hearings in June to present their findings.

• Four of those have already happened. A fifth is planned for Thursday, focused on former President Trump’s pressure on the Justice Department to support his election fraud claims.
• Dates for the two others, focused on the extremist groups that stormed the Capitol and Trump’s response to the violence, haven’t been announced.

What’s next: "My hope is we’ll know by Thursday’s hearing," Raskin said, signaling a potential announcement by the panel on Wednesday.