the january six committee, prepping a hearing for tuesday after landing a major witness. trump s white house counsel, pat cipollone, testifying for eight hours friday. and a videotaped and transcript closed-door interview. now remember the committee said that cipollone did not contradict testimony of other witnesses, and a source told nbc news that he was cooperative, quote. cipollone was inside the white house and the days leading up to the insurrection you may recall, including a white house meeting with discussions about seizing voting machines and sending false letters to state officials about election fraud. and he was also in the west wing on january 6th, during the eight hour testimony he was likely peppered with questions about bombshell testimony invoking his name. watch. presidents white house counsel s pat cipollone was also present. do you remember what his position was? pat was very supportive. pat cipollone throughout these conversations was extremely suppor
eight hour has to money he was likely peppered with questions about bombshell testimony invoking his name. watch. presidents white house counsel s pat cipollone was also present. do you remember what his position was? pat was very supportive. pat cipollone throughout these conversations was extremely supportive of the justice department. i saw mr. cipollone right before i walked out on the west exact that morning, and mr. cipollone said something to the effect of please make sure we don t go up to the capitol capacity, keep in touch with me. we are going to get charged with every crime imaginable. our committee is certain that donald trump does not want mr. cipollone to testify here. indeed, our evidence shows that mr. cipollone and his office tried to do what was right. we think the american people deserve to hear mr. cipollone personally. so this important testimony is likely to be revealed this week and we will also hear from another key witness it seems, sarah
part of his legal team and to that criminal probe alleging he interfered in the states 2020 election. this appears to be at least in my incessant, the most significant step yet taken in that investigation to target trump s inner circle. one of these latest subpoenas tell you about the scope and direction of that investigation or my hyping up a little too much? i don t think so it all. i actually think that whenever we heard publicly from the fulton county da, she seems aggressive, she seems committed to push this investigation forward. these are all indications as far as i can tell that she s probably committing herself. she s elected confer official, she has an incentive to tell the public, ultimately her voters what she intends to hang her hat on. i think she thinks there is something to this and i think she s going to pursue the matter aggressively or she would not have tried to obtain testimony from so many
this appears to be at least in my incessant, the most significant step yet taken in that investigation to target trump s inner circle. one of these latest subpoenas tell you about the scope and direction of that investigation or my hyping up a little too much? i don t think so it all. i actually think that whenever we heard publicly from the fulton county da, she seems aggressive, she seems committed to push this investigation forward. these are all indications as far as i can tell that she s probably committing herself. she s elected confer official, she has an incentive to tell the public, ultimately her voters what she intends to hang her hat on. i think she thinks there is something to this and i think she s going to pursue the matter aggressively or she would not have tried to obtain testimony from so many high-profile witnesses, for example sitting united states senator unless she was willing to commit significant resources to it because a lot of those people will not testify v