Jan. 6 select committee hires former Rep. Denver Riggleman as an adviser to the panel, according to Chairman Bennie Thompson. More:
last week with several police officers who had faced off against pro-Trump rioters at the Capitol in January. With the House now on recess through August, the panel is focused on mapping out the contours of its investigation and building up its staff.
Thompson said the panel would issue"quite a few" subpoenas and could potentially seek to question and obtain documents from former Trump administration officials and Republican lawmakers who communicated with Trump before and on Jan. 6.Attendees watch a video of rioters during a hearing for the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, July 27, 2021.
Asked if the committee would want to interview former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, following thefrom former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue that appear to show Trump trying to pressure the Department of Justice to declare there was significant fraud tainting the 2020 presidential election, Thompson said the committee hasn't determined who it wants to hear from yet.
"The president wanted to mobilize the apparatus of the entire U.S. government to reinstall him as president, essentially," Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., another panel member, told reporters."As one member, I am very interested in retracing the steps of what the president did to guarantee what he called his 'continuation in power.'"Riggleman is the third Republican linked to the panel, along with Reps.
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