The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection has concluded its closed-door interview Friday with Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone.
WASHINGTON -- The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 insurrection has concluded its closed-door interview Friday with Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone during which it had been expected to ask about what he witnessed in the waning days of Donald Trump's administration when the former president and his allies tried to overturn the election.
Like others who were present and have testified before the committee, Cipollone could help shed light on Trump's state of mind as the violence was taking place. Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, for example, testified that she heard a conversation in the dining room at one point about rioters chanting"hang Mike Pence."
Pressed on the difference, Lofgren said,"Well, he could say so and so was wrong -- which he did not say. There were things that he might not be present for or in some cases, couldn't recall with precision. I think he was candid with the committee. He was careful in his answers and I believe that he was honest in his answers."
"Well, executive privilege is held by the current President, who has not asserted it when it comes to finding out information about the January 6th plot," Lofgren said."The attorney-client privilege could be asserted. But, remember, the presidency is his client, not Mr. Trump as a person." In that meeting, Rosen and Cipollone discredited Clark's credentials for the job and categorically dismissed a draft letter Clark had written that falsely claimed the Department of Justice had found evidence of election fraud.
Hutchinson said that Cipollone told her on January 3,"We need to make sure that this doesn't happen, this would be legally a terrible idea for us. We have serious legal concerns if we go to the Capitol that day."
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