WASHINGTON: The US House panel investigating the January 2021 attack on the US Capitol will present evidence this week that former president Donald Trump was involved in a failed bid to submit slates of fake electors to overturn the 2020 election, a key lawmaker said on Sunday.

`We will show evidence of the president`s involvement in this scheme,` Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff, a member of the House of Representatives Select Committee, said on CNN`s `State of the Union`.

`We will also again show evidence about what his own lawyers came to think about this scheme, and we`ll show courageous state officials who stood up and said they wouldn`t go along with this plan to either call legislatures back into session or decertify the results for Joe Biden,` he said.

Schiff`s comments came as the Democratically-led committee prepares to hold its fourth public hearing on Tuesday on their investigation into the Jan 6, 2021, attack and Trump`s role in trying to block Congress from certifying Biden`s election victory.

Evidence against Trump could potentially be crucial in an ongoing criminal invesugadon by the Department of Justice (DOJ) into the alleged fake elector plot.

In an interview with CNN earlier this year, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco confirmed the department had received referrals about slates of alternative fake electors that were sent to the National Archives, and said prosecutors were reviewing them.-Reuters