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The first witness, Neera Tanden , testified before the Oversight majority and minority counsel Tuesday, and was not protected by executive privilege per a letter sent by the White House Tuesday. Executive privilege allows the witness to withhold information from Congress to protect the integrity of the executive branch.
The rest of the witnesses will also be denied the same protections as the investigation progresses. House Democrat posts from beyond the grave to boost former chief of staff in Virginia election“In light of unique and extraordinary nature of the matters under investigation, President Trump has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the national interest, and therefore not justified, with respect to particular subjects within the purview of the House Oversight Committee,” read the nine letters obtained by theTanden’s interview lasted over four hours and included a lunch break. A couple of members from both parties briefly entered the room during the interview.Anthony Bernal, a senior adviser to former first lady Jill Biden, was supposed to testify in front of the committee on Thursday, but abruptlythe committee wants answers about “who was calling the shots” during Biden’s final two years in office. The committee will also continue to investigate why the president’s signature was increasingly replaced by the use of an autopen to sign certain executive orders. Both Tanden and Bernal received these letters, along with the seven other aides who will testify as well: Annie Tomasini, Ashley Williams, Michael Donilon, Anita Dunn, Ronald Klain, Bruce Reed, and Steve Ricchetti. The letters claim that there is “Evidence that aides to former President Biden concealed information regarding his fitness to exercise the powers of the President — and may have unconstitutionally exercised those powers themselves to aid in their concealment — implicates both Congress’ constitutional and legislative powers.” Before these letters were sent, one of the most notable recent instances of waiving executive privilege was the Biden administration’s use of it in relation to the Jan. 6 investigation. Biden has pushed back on all allegations of the autopen usage saying, “I was the one who made the decisions,” arguing that the whole investigation is politically motivated. The transcripts from the closed-door interviews are slated to be made public, according to a spokesperson for the committee. Comer told thethat no interviews will be released before all of them have concluded. Transcribed interviews are typically conducted by committee staff over the course of several hours, and both parties are granted extended time for questioning, compared to the five-minute increments afforded to members during publicly televised hearings. The chairman said the committee is especially focused on whether any executive actions were authorized without Biden’s explicit approval, and whether the autopen was used to bypass the president at any point during his tenure.
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