Schiff: Jan. 6 investigation going ‘straight to subpoenas’ in some

The committee is going to “forgo some of the time-consuming steps” that have dogged previous investigations, Schiff added, Compared with the independent 9/11 Commission two decades ago, he said, the Jan. 6 panel is moving with “great rapidity.”

“And where we do meet resistance, we intend to push back hard and fast,” Schiff added.

Schiff said he also hoped the Biden administration would break from Trump-era practices of fighting efforts by Congress to hold witnesses in contempt if they refuse to cooperate. The Biden administration’s posture toward the Jan. 6 committee may also help speed up efforts to garner new information, he added, noting that the current Justice Department is unlikely to support what he called “bogus claims of [executive] privilege” by the Trump team.

Schiff declined to identify specific witnesses the panel would call but said he and fellow committee members are learning new information, and that he expects these new details to “mushroom” in the coming weeks.

The Jan. 6 panel is getting a boost from the House Oversight Committee, whose chair Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) said in a brief interview that transcripts of her panel’s closed-door interviews with former Trump administration officials had been turned over to the Capitol riot investigators “because they wanted that particular area.”

“We are working with them. We always work with everybody,” she said.

Nicholas Wu contributed to this report.