In a 90-minute show, members of Congress will summarize their initial findings on how the events of January 6, 2021 unfolded, explaining why they believe it was an organized conspiracy and not an out-of-control protest. The event, which officials hope will resonate with the explosive Watergate hearings of the 1970s, follows a year-long inquiry in which the bipartisan committee interviewed more than 1,000 witnesses and gathered more than 140,000 documents. . “We will reveal new details that show that the violence of January 6 was the result of a coordinated multi-step effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to suspend the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden – and that President “Donald Trump was at the heart of that effort,” said an aide to the commission. “Tomorrow. . . “It will bring the American people back to the reality of this violence and remind them of how horrific it was.” Thursday’s show will offer a rare window into the events of January 6, when a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol in an attempt to stop Biden’s certification of electoral victory. Five people were killed during or immediately after the violence, including a protester who was shot dead by police and a police officer who clashed with Trump supporters. The hearing will give the majority-Republican committee a chance to revive the issue of the uprising in the minds of voters in the run-up to the November midterm elections, and will likely affect the 2024 presidential election, with Trump continuing to signal that he may is a candidate. Most of the team work has been done in secret, although many of the findings have been reported during the process and there have been some prosecutions. Last week, Peter Navarro, Trump’s former trade adviser, was accused of contempt of Congress for failing to comply with the commission’s summons. His indictment follows a similar charge against Steve Bannon, another former Trump adviser, whose trial is set to begin next month. Thursday’s meeting will include personal data from two people, according to committee staff. One is Caroline Edwards, a Capitol police officer who was injured during the riots. The second is Nick Quested, who is making a documentary about the far-right Proud Boys and was spinning as the violence erupted. Much of the committee’s work has focused on the roles played by the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, another far-right group, in carrying out the violence. Leaders of both groups have been accused of insurgency in recent months, and those close to the commission say members are trying to find out if they were helped by people close to Trump. The testimony of Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the former president, and her husband Jared Kouchner, will also be shown, according to people who were informed about the process. The committee brought in James Golston, the former president of ABC News, to help him organize the hearings, of which more are expected. “Their job is to tell us a good story we did not already know,” said Norman Eisen, a former U.S. ambassador who advised the congressional committee on Trump’s first appearance.

Some compared it to the public hearings about the Watergate scandal, which revealed new information and explained the story to the American public, which watched it by the millions. This time, however, viewership is likely to be lower, mainly because Fox News, the right-wing channel that has more viewers than any other, does not cover auditions. Norman Ornstein, a political scientist who has studied political extremism in the United States, said: “The audience for these hearings is not the 60 percent of Republicans who believe Trump won, it is the 30-40 percent who do not. . “There are also too many surprise voters who can learn a lot here that will terrify and frighten them.”