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The House Selection Committee investigating the Capitol riots is reportedly considering asking for interviews with former Vice President Mike Pence and former President Donald Trump.
A Republican member of the panel revealed to the Wall Street Journal that the committee was considering whether and how it could get interviews from the former heads of state.
Representative Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the Jan. 6 panel, said during an interview that the panel may request a written interview with Mr. Pence, and is considering whether it would use a subpoena to coerce his testimony. .
Despite previous comments by committee chair Bennie Thompson that the panel would not ask for Trump’s testimony, Mr Kinzinger suggested it was still under consideration.
A spokesman for Mr Pence has not commented on reports that the panel is considering asking for his testimony.
Obtaining testimony from Mr. Pence and especially from Mr. Trump would be an important development for the panel, which has already received shocking testimony from Trump administration insiders, including top White House aide Mark Meadow, Cassidy Hutchinson .
Steve Bannon, an adviser to Trump’s campaign, has also agreed to testify before the committee after initially refusing to cooperate.
The most recent panel hearings focused on Mr. Trump summoning his supporters to Washington DC for his speech and then sending them to disrupt proceedings at the Capitol. These included accounts of individuals who took part in the attack, including a former spokesperson for the far-right gang the Oath Keepers.
The next hearing, scheduled for July 21, will reportedly focus on the time between the beginning of the violence at the Capitol and Mr Trump’s message to his supporters to stop their attack.
“Mr. Kinzinger and I intend to walk through those 187 minutes. What happened between that time? [former President Donald Trump] left the stage, making incendiary remarks and giving people the impression… that he himself was going to march with this crowd to the Capitol,” Representative Elaine Luria told ABC News on Wednesday. “[And] what happened between that moment and then about 4:17 p.m., that’s about 187 minutes later, when he finally made a statement to the nation, to the people at the Capitol to go home.”
She said Mr Trump “did not take on the leadership role as President of the United States, as Commander in Chief”.
“We’re going to talk about dereliction of duty,” she said.