WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Mike Pence may very well be subpoenaed to testify to the House choose committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Adam Schiff mentioned on Sunday.
“We’re not taking anything off the table in terms of witnesses who have not yet testified,” Schiff, a California Democrat and member of the committee, mentioned on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“There are still key people we have not interviewed that we would like to,” he added, saying Pence is “certainly a possibility.”
The panel heard from Pence’s prime lawyer on Thursday, who mentioned he voiced “vociferous disagreement” about former President Donald Trump’s strain on Pence to attempt to block the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s presidential victory.
Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland who can also be on the committee, praised Pence for his actions on Jan. 6.
“On that day he was a hero for resisting all of the pressure campaigns and the coercive efforts to get him to play along with this continuation of the ‘big lie,’ this big joke that he could somehow call off all of the proceedings himself,” Raskin mentioned on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
The committee’s first public hearings have revealed chilling particulars of the assault, together with testimony that organizers would have killed Pence if given the possibility.
The panel rendered a portrait of Trump as callously detached to the hazard his vice chairman confronted all through the day.
Schiff mentioned on Sunday that upcoming hearings will unveil extra proof of Trump’s participation within the effort to overthrow the election outcomes.
“I don’t want to get ahead of our hearing. We will show during a hearing what the president’s role was in trying to get states to name alternate slates of electors, how that scheme depended initially on hopes that the legislatures would reconvene and bless it,” he mentioned.
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