Legal experts have said Cassidy's testimony is potentially problematic for Trump as federal prosecutors investigate potential criminal wrongdoing. 6 to protest his 2020 election defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. In Hutchinson's appearance before the committee last week, Hutchinson painted a picture of Trump as an angry, defiant president who was trying to let armed supporters avoid security screenings at a rally on the morning of Jan. I think those leads will lead to new testimony." Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said: "We are following additional leads. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.In a separate interview, another committee member, Rep. Kinzinger appeared on CNN's “State of the Union,” Schiff was on CBS' “Face the Nation" and Cheney appeared on ABC's “This Week." She was asked to speak to the committee after disclosures of her communications with Trump’s team in the run-up and day of the insurrection at the Capitol.
The committee has also been working on setting up an interview with Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. “It's hard to imagine someone more at the center of things.” “He clearly has information about concerns about criminal violations, concerns about the president going to the Capitol that day, concerns about the chief of staff having blood on his hands if they didn’t do more to stop that violent attack on the Capitol,” Schiff said. In recent days, the committee has subpoenaed former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and has been seeking more information from Ornato and Engel, who were previously interviewed by investigators.Ĭommittee members hope Cipollone will come forward. The person would not discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Bobby Engel, the Secret Service agent who was driving Trump, and Ornato are willing to testify under oath that no agent was assaulted and Trump never lunged for the steering wheel, a person familiar with the matter said. She said the committee will decide later in the process whether to proceed.Ĭassidy also recounted a conversation with Tony Ornato, Trump's deputy chief of staff for operations, who, she testified, said Trump later grabbed at the steering wheel of the presidential SUV when the Secret Service refused to let him go to the Capitol after the rally. “There could be more than one criminal referral,” said Cheney in an interview that aired Sunday. Legal experts have said Cassidy’s testimony is potentially problematic for Trump as federal prosecutors investigate potential criminal wrongdoing. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) said: “We are following additional leads. In a separate interview, another committee member, Rep. “We certainly would say that Cassidy Hutchinson has testified under oath, we find her credible, and anybody that wants to cast disparagements on that, who were firsthand present, should also testify under oath and not through anonymous sources.”
“There’s information I can’t say yet,” he said.
He said many more details emerged after last week's testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and that nothing had changed the committee's confidence in her credibility. Kinzinger, in a television interview, declined to disclose the new information he referred to and did not say who had provided it. The committee also has been reviewing new documentary film footage of Trump’s final months in office, including interviews with Trump and members of his family. 6, and then failed to take quick action to stop the attack once it began. At least two more hearings are scheduled this month that aim to show how Trump illegally directed a violent mob toward the Capitol on Jan.
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