Former Vice President Mike Pence said on CBS's 'Face the Nation' that he's 'closing the door' on testifying before the Jan. 6 committee. 'Congress has no right to my testimony.'
"Congress has no right to my testimony," he said in a preview for an interview airing Sunday.
"I believe it would establish terrible precedent for the Congress to summon a vice president of the United States to speak about deliberations that took place at the White House," Pence continued."The partisan nature of the January 6 committee has been a disappointment to me," Pence said, adding that he'd hoped it would be "nonpartisan" and "non-political.
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