Washington — Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger, a member of the Home committee investigating the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, mentioned Sunday that the panel "totally" expects Rudy Giuliani to adjust to its subpoena for testimony.
"Our expectation is he's going to cooperate as a result of that is the legislation, that is the requirement, identical as if any individual [is] subpoenaed to court docket," Kinzinger mentioned in an interview with "Face the Nation," including "we totally anticipate that in accordance with the legislation, we'll hear from Rudy."
Giuliani and three others — conservative attorneys Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell, and former Trump White Home aide Boris Epshteyn — pushed unsupported theories the 2020 election was rife with fraud and appeared collectively for a November 19, 2020, press convention, throughout which they claimed Mr. Trump received in a "landslide."
The committee issued its subpoena to Giuliani, Ellis, Powell and Epshteyn final month. The panel requested them to show over paperwork by February 1 and testify February 8.
Kinzinger mentioned there may very well be some modifications within the date Giuliani seems earlier than the committee for a deposition, however Home investigators anticipate him to company.
"No matter after we hear from Rudy or how lengthy that interview is, we're getting quite a lot of data and we're trying ahead to wrapping this up sooner or later when that's proper, exhibiting it to the American folks, however not dashing it, not hurrying this," he mentioned. "We would like everyone to have the total story."
In the midst of its probe, the January 6 committee has interviewed greater than 475 witnesses and acquired over 60,000 pages of information, in accordance with an aide to the panel. Kinzinger mentioned he expects the committee will start public hearings within the spring or summer time.
"We'll need to have the ability to take this data and current it to the American folks, not simply in a report which goes to be important, however in folks, in faces and in tales," the Illinois Republican mentioned.
Kinzinger and Congresswoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming are the one two Republicans serving on the January 6 panel, and each had been censured by the Republican Nationwide Committee earlier this month for his or her participation. The decision punishing the pair declared the committee's investigation "a Democrat-led persecution of strange residents engaged in reliable political discourse," a characterization of the occasions of January 6 that was rebuked by many Republicans, together with Senate Minority Chief Mitch McConnell.
Kinzinger mentioned McConnell's assertion, in addition to former Vice President Mike Pence's rejection of Trump's declare he might have rejected state electoral votes, was "vital," however mentioned all Republicans "must take definitive strains."
"This can be a second the place each Republican — I do not care when you're working for metropolis council all the best way as much as Congress, Senate, and so on. — each Republican needs to be clear and forceful on the file: Do they assume January sixth was reliable political discourse?" he mentioned. "Do not allow them to keep away from it. Do not allow them to hem haw and do not allow them to transition to another topic they'd moderately discuss. That is a solution each considered one of them have to offer, after which we will transfer on as soon as they're clear and on the file. However that is definitive to our democracy. How do you're feeling? Was it reliable?"