Jan 6 lawmakers tease new witnesses after ex-aide testifies

Bloomberg

Members of the House committee investigating the US Capitol attack by supporters of Donald Trump promised further revelations, after an ex-White House staffer’s portrayed the former president’s outbursts of rage.
“We are following additional leads,” Representative Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “I think those leads will lead to new testimony.”
Witnesses being sought include former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, whom the committee has subpoenaed to appear Wednesday for closed-door questioning.
Committee members view Cipollone as a central figure in the dramatic moments before, during and after the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Former White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson cited what she said were legal concerns by Cipollone during her testimony last week.
“We’re in discussions with Mr Cipollone’s counsel,” Schiff said. “I’m hopeful that we can work out bringing him in for testimony.” It’s “hard to imagine someone more at the center of things,” he said.
Cipollone can’t use a blanket claim of executive privilege to snub a subpoena to testify to the House committee investigating last year’s attack on the US Capitol, committee member Representative Zoe Lofgren said on NBC’s “This Week.”
“That’s not an absolute immunity,” the California Democrat said. “It falls when there is something more important, and that is true in this case.”
Schiff said the next hearing will focus “on the efforts to assemble that mob on the mall, who was participating, who was financing it, how it was organized.