Former Vice President Mike Pence Wednesday "considers" testifying before a Democratic-ledHouse Select Committeeinvestigating last year's Capitol riots.
"If I get an invitation to attend, I will consider it," Pence said at an event at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.
"He will have to think about his unique role as vice president," added the former Indiana governor. "It is unprecedented in history for a Vice President to be summoned to testify before Congress."
The committee typically videotapes interviews with subjects and broadcasts portions of them. The most annoying part of the hearing.
"I don't want to be preconceived. If you have a formal invitation, I'll give it a full look," Pence stressed Wednesday. My first duty is to keep my oaths and to keep the constitutional framework of government."
That the former Vice President did not deny the possibility of testimony. is likely to infuriate pro-Donald Trump Republicans who have accused the committee process of being a "show trial" for the 45th president. The committee's vice chair is outgoing anti-Trump Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming), who lost the Republican primary Tuesday to pro-Trump Harriet Hageman.
In January of this year, Commission Chairman Benny Thompson (D-Miss.) suggested that the Commission ask the former Vice President to attend on a voluntary basis..
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{35pence played a pivotal role in the events of January 6, 2021, while presiding over the official certification of the 2020 election, while presiding over President-elect Joe Biden. Denied Trump's request to deny the electorate.
Trump tweeted Pence lacking "courage" during the riots. In a clever attempt to reverse a single-Biden victory, pro-Trump demonstrators chanted "Hang Mike Pence!" After crashing into the Capitol and disrupting the proceedings.
``Where's Pence? The then vice president had fled to safety just minutes earlier.
Pence became a hero to many for refusing to kick out the electors of battleground states for Biden. Though considered the Republican presidential nominee for president, several polls show Trump remains the front-runner for the Republican nomination should he run again.
Since his resignation, Pence has tried to downplay his talk of a rift between himself and his former president,last month saying: Before adding "problem": "But the focus can be different."
At the same New Hampshire event, Pence broke up with pro-Trump Republicans to stop funding the FBI following last week's raid on the former president's Florida residence. or demand its abolition.
"These attacks on the FBI must stop," Pence said. "Demanding restitution from the FBI is as wrong as demanding restitution from the police."
