Jan 6 hearings: Panelist Adam Schiff shares details of upcoming 4th session

The Jan 6 committee on Tuesday is expected to present evidence on how former US President Donald Trump planned to overturn the results of 2020 presidential elections through a scheme to submit fake slates of electors.

The plan to implicate Trump in the scheme was announced on Sunday by Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California and a member of the panel.

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“Yes, we’ll show evidence of the President’s involvement in this scheme. We’ll also again show evidence about what his own lawyers came to think about this scheme,” the 61-year-old said on CNN’s show, ‘State of the Union’.

“And we’ll show courageous state officials who stood up and said they wouldn’t go along with this plan to either call legislators back into session or decertify the results for Joe Biden,” Schiff added.

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The Democrat panelist went on to say that while he did not “want to get ahead of” of the next hearing on Tuesday, but offered a few more details about what to expect.

“We’ll show during the hearing what the President’s role was in trying to get states to name alternate slates of electors, how that scheme depended initially on hopes that the legislators would reconvene and bless it. We will show you what we know about his role in this,” Schiff further told CNN show host Dana Bash.

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Schiff’s revelations about the next hearing on Tuesday comes at a time when federal prosecutors are in the midst of investigating fake Electoral College certifications created by Trump and his associates declaring the 75-year-old the winner of the 2020 presidential elections.

In the three hearings that have taken place thus far, the Jan 6 committee has laid out the foundations for its case against Trump, wherein it holds that the the 75-year-old’s lies about election fraud and his pressure on Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the election results led to the storming of the US Capitol, an unprecedented event that left several dead.