The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol will hold its next hearing at 1 p.m. ET on Thursday, focusing on how former President Donald Trump pressured then-Vice President Mike Pence not to count lawful electoral votes.

In a video previewing the hearing, Rep. Liz Cheney, the top GOP panel member, said Thursday's hearing would present Trump's "relentless effort" to stop the votes from getting counted.

"President Trump had no factual basis for what he was doing. And he had been told it was illegal," Cheney said in the video, adding that Trump worked with lawyer John Eastman and others to try to overturn the outcome of the election on Jan. 6th.

Thursday's hearing comes after the panel postponed Wednesday's scheduled hearing due to "technical issues," according to committee member Rep. Zoe Lofgren. That session would have focused on Trump's plan to fire former Attorney General Bill Barr. Barr resigned effective Dec. 23, 2020 after disagreeing with the former president's false claims of voter fraud.

A rescheduled date for that hearing has not been announced.

Who is testifying?

Two witnesses will testify in-person on Thursday:

• Greg Jacob, an attorney for former Vice President Mike Pence. In a memo sent to Pence a day before the Jan. 6 attack, Jacob wrote that blocking or delaying the certification of electoral votes would be a violation of federal law. Rejecting the votes was a strategy pushed by Eastman, a legal adviser to Trump, who wrote...

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