The committee that's investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot announced Tuesday that it has scheduled its seventh public hearing for July 12.

According to CNN, the hearing is set to begin at 10 a.m., but the panel has not yet announced any witnesses. The panel will be "following additional leads" after some of the bomshell testimony so far, Jan. 6 committee member Adam Schiff said Sunday.

So far, the public hearings have dealt with former President Donald Trump's pressure campaigns against the Justice Department, Vice President Mike Pence, state lawmakers and local elections officials. They have also focused on Trump's baseless and false claims of fraud during the 2020 Presidential election, reported CBS News.

The committee showed never-before-seen video from a documentary filmmaker embedded with the Proud Boys on Jan. 6 in the first hearing. They also heard from a U.S. Capitol police officer who suffered a traumatic brain injury that day. Last week, the committee had called a last-minute hearing to hear a testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson.

The former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows testified that Trump was told the crowd at the Ellipse had guns and other weapons. She also said that Trump wanted to join them on the way to the U.S. Capitol, and that he even lunged at Secret Service to get the steering wheel.

After her testimony, the panel issued a subpoena to Pat Cipollone, Trump's White House counsel. According to Hutchinson, Cipollone had expressed concerns about Trump's desire to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He was also worried about the language the former President wanted to use in his speech at the Ellipse on the day of the riot.

The committee could make a criminal referral to the Justice Department for Trump, Jan. 6 panel vice chair Liz Cheney said Sunday.

Meanwhile, a trailer of a new documentary, “Unprecedented,” about Trump revealed a new behind-the-scenes peek at the former president and his children and fresh footage from the Jan. 6 riot, reported New York Daily News. The teaser for the documentary interspersed interview clips with the Trump family and disturbing scenes from the violent crowd at the Capitol.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaking is shown on a screen during the Jan 6 panel's second hearing
A video of former U.S. President Donald Trump speaking is shown on a screen during the second hearing held by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol on June 13, 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The bipartisan committee, which has been gathering evidence related to the January 6, 2021 attack at the U.S. Capitol for almost a year, is presenting its findings in a series of televised hearings. On January 6, 2021, supporters of President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol Building in an attempt to disrupt a congressional vote to confirm the electoral college win for Joe Biden. Photo by Jabin Botsford-Pool/Getty Images
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