Pat Cipollone.Photo: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty

Pat Cipollone, White House counsel, arrives to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020

Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone has reached a deal with the bipartisan House committee investigating theinsurrection at the Capitoland will comply with a subpoena for his testimony this week.

Various outlets including CNN report that Cipollone willsit for a transcribed interview — which will not be broadcast live — on Friday. Sources tell CNN and other outlets that the interview with Cipollone will be videotaped, though it’s unclear how — or when — it will be presented to the public.

Inher testimony— given under oath — Hutchinson said that, in the days leading up to the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally which preceded the riots, White House counsel tried to persuade the former president not to use incendiary rhetoric in his speech.

Cassidy Hutchinson.Brandon Bell/Getty

Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, is sworn-in as she testifies during the sixth hearing by the House Select Committee on the January 6th insurrection in the Cannon House Office Building on June 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. The bipartisan committee, which has been gathering evidence for almost a year related to the January 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol, is presenting its findings in a series of televised hearings. On January 6, 2021, supporters of former President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol Building during an attempt to disrupt a congressional vote to confirm the electoral college win for President Joe Biden.

Hutchinson testified that Cipollone, who was at that time a White House lawyer, told her on the morning of Jan. 6 not to let Trump go to the Capitol, otherwise “we’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable,” including obstruction of justice or defrauding the electoral count.

“Mr. Cipollone said something to the effect of, ‘Please make sure we don’t go up to the Capitol, Cassidy,'” she testified. “‘Keep in touch with me. We’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen.'”

Among the other stunning allegations that came to light in the hearings are thatTrump physically assaulted a Secret Service agentin an attempt to get to the Capitol on Jan. 6; and thatseveral Republican members of Congress sought a blanket pardonfor their involvement in the former president’s attempts to overturn his defeat.

According to a newABC News/Ipsos poll, 58% of the nation nowsupports criminally charging Trumpfor helping to incite the mob that breached the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to stopJoe Bidenfrom becoming president.

That percentage is up from a similarABC News/Washington Postpollconducted in late April — before the Jan. 6 committee began hosting public hearings on its investigation.

source: people.com