Cipollone corroborated 'almost everything' other witnesses told Jan. 6 panel
by Max Thornberry, Associate News Editor |
| July 12, 2022 08:44 AM
A closed-door testimony before the Jan. 6 committee corroborated almost everything the panel has heard from public witnesses, a top member said on Tuesday.
After the blockbuster testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, the committee asked former White House counsel Pat Cipollone to speak with members privately. Cipollone's marathon interview — he spent nearly eight hours with the committee last week — was taped, and pieces of his testimony are expected to be aired during Tuesday’s hearing.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) a top member of the committee who will be leading parts of Tuesday’s hearing, told NBC that Cipollone’s testimony lined up with what Hutchinson and other witnesses have said over the last month of public hearings.
“Cipollone has corroborated almost everything that we’ve learned from the prior hearings,” Raskin said. “I certainly did not hear him contradict Cassidy Hutchinson. … He had the opportunity to say whatever he wanted to say, so I didn’t see any contradiction there.”
Panel members didn’t bring Cipollone in to testify in order to corroborate Hutchinson’s or any other witness's testimony, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) said on Sunday. While the committee didn’t ask Cipollone to “corroborate” anything, his information was in line with what the panel had heard from others.
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