Washington — Denver Riggleman, a former GOP congressman and former senior adviser for the Home choose committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, sat down with "60 Minutes" correspondent Invoice Whitaker for unique interviews forward of the Tuesday launch of his new ebook, "The Breach."
Riggleman was in control of analyzing the decision information, texts and on-line actions of a whole bunch of individuals suspected of enjoying a task within the assault on the Capitol. He saved the ebook below wraps from the Jan. 6 committee whereas he was writing it. The Home panel has only one extra listening to scheduled, on Wednesday, Sept. 28.
"I've left some issues out as a result of the committee continues to be doing their investigation on a few of these issues, proper? However I needed the American folks to see that we will construct details as a story as efficient as constructing narrative out of fantasy," Riggleman instructed Whitaker.
Whitaker interviewed Riggleman in Washington, D.C., and at his residence in Virginia, and people conversations will air at 7 p.m. ET/PT on Sunday, Sept. 25, on "60 Minutes."
Riggleman served one time period within the Home earlier than shedding to Rep. Bob Good in 2020, regardless of an endorsement from then-President Trump. Riggleman had attracted criticism from inside the Virginia GOP for officiating a same-sex wedding ceremony.
Since shedding his major, Riggleman, an skilled army intelligence officer, has develop into an outspoken critic of each the previous president and the Republican Get together.
In a June interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, Riggleman stated he not considers himself to be a Republican, claiming the occasion has shifted away from its core conservative ideas and towards a "cult of character."
"I feel the occasion left me a while in the past," Riggleman stated.