The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill is considering calling for testimony from former Vice President Mike Pence and former President Donald Trump, spokesman Adam Kinzinger, a member of the committee, told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. Before a committee meeting, Kinzinger told the news outlet that the committee was considering whether to call Pence to testify. The committee could also request a written interview with the former vice president, Kinzinger told the WSJ. In addition to Pence, the committee is also considering whether to call for testimony from Trump himself, Kinzinger told the newspaper. Secret Service agents rushed to evacuate Pence from the Senate chamber, where he was presiding over the certification of then-President-elect Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, to a safe location during the riot on January 6, 2021. Trump, at the time, had pushed Pence to throw out Electoral College votes in states won by Biden in an attempt to overturn the results. Pence rejected his offer, arguing that he did not have the constitutional authority to do so. The bipartisan panel is releasing its findings to the public from a year-long investigation into the insurgency on Capitol Hill. In seven hearings so far, the committee has shown prominent former Trump officials and allies saying the 2020 election was not stolen, efforts by Trump’s inner circle to pressure Pence to dispute the results, testimony that several Trump allies and Republicans they asked for favors in the presidential elections, among other things. The next hearing is scheduled for Thursday, July 21.
