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
from this testimony? where could he be critical in connecting certain dots? i think he can shed a lot of light on a few things. some of the areas they agreed to talk about, one in mention that meeting with the justice department on january 3rd, proposing what he himself referred to as a murder suicide pact, sending those letters to georgia suggesting they reconvene their legislature for the purpose of selecting alternate electors, firing the acting attorney general and replacing the jeffrey clark. he said he would resign if that were to happen. so i think hearing more about that episode could be critically important. he talked about a meeting with john eastman. john eastman is of course the architect of the whole plot to have mike pence refused to certify the election. i think a lot of like could be shed their. his meetings with members of congress, i think that could be very interesting. what was the plan there? members of congress on board to refuse to certify the election. affinit
proposing what he himself referred to as a murder suicide pact, sending those letters to georgia suggesting they reconvene their legislature for the purpose of selecting alternate electors, firing the acting attorney general and replacing the jeffrey clark. he said he would resign if that were to happen. so i think hearing more about that episode could be critically important. he talked about a meeting with john eastman. john eastman is of course the architect of the whole plot to have mike pence refused to certify the election. i think a lot of like could be shed their. his meetings with members of congress, i think that could be very interesting. what was the plan there? members of congress on board to refuse to certify the election. affinity events of january 6th. because he was the one in the room with donald trump and running to try to make him stop and call people off, i think he