WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol received a formal request by the Department of Justice to share copies of its witness interviews, which the committee will do "in due time," chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said Thursday.
"We can't stop our work because someone writes us a letter," Thompson said following the panel's third hearing on the Capitol insurrection. "Now, we will cooperate with them, but the committee has its own timetable."
The Justice Department sent a letter to the committee on Wednesday urging the committee to provide copies of all its witness interviews. The agency stressed that the depositions are crucial to its investigation into the Jan. 6 violence.
