The committee issued a subpoena for Cipollone’s testimony last week after former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that Cipollone strongly opposed Trump’s efforts to travel to the Capitol on Jan. 6. efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election. He previously participated in an informal interview with the committee. Hutchinson testified that Cipollone said a trip to the Capitol would raise “serious legal concerns” and urged her several times to work to make sure such a trip didn’t happen. “Please make sure we don’t go up to the Capitol, Cassidy. Keep in touch with me. We will be charged with every crime imaginable if we make this move,” Hutchinson recalled Cipollone telling her. Hutchinson also recounted an exchange between White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who was her boss, and Cipollone as rioters breached the Capitol on Jan. 6. Cipollone urged Meadows to talk to the president, Hutchinson said. He testified that Cipollone told Meadows that “something has to be done or people will die and blood will be on your hands.” In announcing the subpoena last week, committee chairman Bennie Thompson and vice chairman Liz Cheney said the committee “uncovered evidence that Mr. Cipollone repeatedly raised legal and other concerns about President Trump’s activities on January 6 and in the days preceding.” . The committee, they said, “must hear him on the record, as other former White House advisers have done in other congressional investigations.” Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, a member of the committee, told “Face the Nation” Sunday that the committee is “pursuing additional evidence” after Hutchinson’s bombshell testimony last week.
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Rebecca Kaplan covers Congress for CBS News.
