“You’re going to see in the next couple of hearings some of what he said. You’re certainly going to see a lot of it in the report,” Kinzinger, R-Ill., told ABC’s “This Week” host George Stephanopoulos. “But at no point was there any contradiction in what anyone said.” Cipollone was recently called and spoke to the committee on Friday. The subpoena came after it was mentioned repeatedly during the sensational testimony last month by former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Hutchinson told the committee under oath in a public hearing that Cipollone was wary of then-President Donald Trump’s desire to march with his supporters from the Left on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, where Congress was working to certify his Electoral College. 2020 Results. “Mr. Cipollone said something to the effect of, ‘Please make sure we don’t go up to the Capitol, Cassidy, stay in touch with me. We will be charged with every crime imaginable if we make this movement happen,’” Hutchinson said. . The Jan. 6 panel had repeatedly referred to Cipollone as pushing back against Trump’s baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. Rep. Adam Kinzinger speaks as the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill continues to release its findings of a year-long investigation, on Capitol Hill, June 23, 2022. Jacquelyn Martin/AP, FILE Both CNN and the New York Times reported that Cipollone was not asked about certain details by Hutchinson during his own interview on Friday. Kinzinger was also asked on “This Week” about a report that Trump may waive executive privilege for his former adviser Stephen Bannon, who was charged with contempt of Congress for refusing a subpoena related to the Jan. 6 probe. (Bannon has pleaded not guilty.) “Does the committee still want to hear from him?” Stephanopoulos asked. “I’ll just say, in a high-level position, anybody who wants to come, who knows information to talk to the select committee, we welcome them to do so,” Kinzinger said. “We welcome them to do it under oath. And we all know the story with our requests to have spoken to Steve Bannon. So we’ll see how that turns out.” Kinzinger said he felt the same way about possible testimony from Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers. But these examples had one thing in common, Kinzinger said: “They said from the beginning that this commission was just a sideshow, something that nobody cared about, all of a sudden — ‘oh yeah, I want to testify in front of him ». However, Stephanopoulos noted, the commission’s work on the deadly insurgency “doesn’t seem to be cutting through with Republicans,” according to recent polls. Pat Cipollone, former White House counsel under President Donald Trump, arrives at the Ford House office building to answer questions from investigators with the January 6 Select Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, July 8, 2022. J. Scott Applewhite/AP “At the margin, yes, it’s coming through,” Kinzinger said. “And I think the most important thing is, again, what does the story say in five or 10 years? Because I can guarantee — well, I can come as close as I can to guaranteeing it — in about 10 years, there’s no would be a single Trump supporter that exists anywhere in the country.It’s like [Richard] Nixon. There were a lot of people who supported Nixon until he left office, and then everyone said, “No, nobody supported Nixon.” Kinzinger said he’s not worried about Republicans “revisiting” the committee’s investigation if the GOP takes back the House in November’s midterm elections. “I welcome them to see the work we’ve done,” Kinzinger said. The committee will continue its work this week, with a hearing on Tuesday that will focus on ties between Trump’s orbit and extremist groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers and another on Thursday that Kinzinger said will focus on Trump’s activity during the rebellion itself.
