Marc Brief, who was chief of employees to former Vice President Mike Pence, has testified not too long ago earlier than the Home committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot, a supply aware of the matter confirmed Monday to NBC Information.
The testimony from Brief, one of many highest-ranking Trump administration officers to satisfy with the committee, follows a subpoena and earlier engagement with the panel.
CNN first reported Brief’s testimony and cited sources saying it occurred final week.
The committee declined to remark, and Brief couldn’t instantly be reached.
NBC Information reported final month that Brief had been partaking with the committee. Brief was with Pence within the Capitol on Jan. 6 when a pro-Trump mob stormed the constructing because the vp was presiding over the counting of the electoral votes from President Joe Biden’s victory in November.
Brief’s willingness to testify is noteworthy on condition that a few of former President Donald Trump’s allies have resisted the Jan. 6 committee’s efforts to analyze the assault on the Capitol.
Trump has continued to lash out at Pence, together with in an announcement Sunday when he stated the previous vp “may have overturned the Election!”
The top of the Jan. 6 committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., stated earlier this month that the panel would ask Pence to voluntarily meet with lawmakers.
“Our committee actually wants to listen to what are his opinions about what occurred on Jan. 6,” Thompson instructed NPR.
Pence and Trump had a falling out forward of the Jan. 6 riot, after the vp rejected Trump’s demand that he not log out on the counting of the electoral votes and as an alternative attempt to ship the election again to the the states. Some within the crowd through the assault on the Capitol had been chanting “Grasp Mike Pence!” after discovering out he refused to associate with the scheme.
Trump defended the chanting protesters in an interview with ABC Information’ Jonathan Karl recorded in March.
“It’s widespread sense, Jon. It’s widespread sense that you just’re supposed to guard,” Trump stated on the time. “How are you going to, if you understand a vote is fraudulent, proper, how are you going to cross on a fraudulent vote to Congress?”
— by way of www.nbcnews.com
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