Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday said the special House panel investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol “has no right” to his testimony on what happened that day and on former President Donald Trump’s larger campaign to challenge the results of the 2020 election.
Mr. Pence, who was on Capitol Hill on January 6 and has described Mr. Trump’s actions following the 2020 presidential election as “reckless,” said he nonetheless had concerns about the lopsided makeup of the panel, with only two Republicans on the Democratic-dominated nine-member committee.
“It’s inconceivable to me that one party would appoint every member of a committee in Congress — that’s antithetical to the whole idea of the committee system,” he said in an interview for “CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell.