The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection has interviewed nearly 1,000 people.
was at the center of the attack. Trump pressured Pence for days, if not weeks, to use his ceremonial role presiding over the Jan. 6 count to try to block or delay Biden’s certification. Pence refused to do so, and rioters who broke into the building that dayThere are reasons to call either or both of them. The committee wants to be as thorough as possible, and critics are sure to pounce if they don’t even try.
A lot of the people they are interviewing, Thompson added, “are people we didn’t have on the original list.” There are still questions that Trump and Pence could answer, including what they talked about the morning of Jan. 6, when Trump made his final plea for Pence to overturn the election when he presided over the Electoral College count in Congress. Lawmakers have been able to document most of Trump’s end of the call but not what Pence said in response.
In addition, calling a former president or vice president to testify in a congressional investigation is a rare, if not unprecedented, move that could face major legal hurdles and backfire politically.
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