Previous Trump campaign manager Invoice Stepien will not testify just before the House Select Committee on January 6 because of to a "household crisis," the committee declared Monday.

Stepien was initially anticipated to be the star witness of Monday's listening to. The event will be the committee's 2nd general public listening to, acquiring kicked off with previous week's primetime listening to.

The listening to was delayed roughly 45 minutes from its 10 a.m. ET begin time because of to Stepien's absence.

Stepien has already testified right before the committee in private, and the committee may perhaps pick to air footage of that visual appeal. Stepien's lawful counsel will enter a statement for the document on Monday irrespective.

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Specifics of Stepien's emergency have but to be launched.

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Monday's hearing is anticipated to concentration on former President Donald Trump's efforts to distribute baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

Some conservatives have already dismissed the committee's hearings as a "sham," nonetheless. Host Mark Levin of "Existence, Liberty and Levin" argued the hearings are small extra than a witch hunt put on my Property Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

"This is a sham. This will go down in heritage as a dark mark on the American political technique," Levin claimed.

"We can not see it now, [but] the mob is in regulate, the mob runs the media, the propaganda is whole-throated, you can not see it now but historical past has a way of sobering situations. And we will see this one particular day as the outrageous attack on our system, on the prior president, on scores of men and women that it actually is," he added. 

"It’s an abomination to the American program, not just of justice but our congressional and agent system."

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