Tuesday's surprise Jan. 6 hearing comes with a bold claim

The committee’s members and staff were tight-lipped about who would be appearing before the committee. [View in browser]( [Image]( June 28, 2022 THE LATEST [Alternate text] [Tuesday's surprise Jan. 6 hearing comes with a bold claim]( by Hayes Brown A surprise Jan. 6 hearing has many of us wondering what the committee has in store for us Tuesday. Without much evidence to go on — save for a vague indication that it will be “of significance” and a leaked announcement that the witness is a former aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows — it’s tough to know what to make of it. Hayes Brown, who aptly [characterizes]( the ongoing hearings as a “prestige television show,” writes that while “Tuesday’s surprise hearing offers a potential jolt of intensity to draw even more attention to the committee’s work,” it’s also a “high-risk/high-reward situation,” depending on how important the testimony we hear is. He, like many of us, anticipates that we're likely to learn something useful from it. 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