BREAKING: House January 6 committee asks Ivanka Trump to speak with them
on the U.S. Capitol is asking former President Trump's daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump to speak with them. to Ivanka Trump requesting the interview, the committee chairman, Congressman Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, notes that she was with her father in the White House on January 6 and was present in the Oval Office during a phone conversation he had with Vice President Mike Pence that morning.
Trump's call with Pence is among the items the committee said it wants to discuss with Ivanka Trump, as well as other conversations she may have witnessed or participated in regarding her father's plan to"obstruct or impede the counting of electoral votes." "Did you discuss that or similar concerns with the White House chief of staff?" Thompson wrote to Ivanka Trump."Or with the vice president or his staff?"
Thompson referenced testimony in which Ivanka Trump agreed to speak with the president but was forced to make multiple attempts to persuade him. Kellogg told the committee he advised against Trump appearing in the White House briefing room, as"press conferences tend to get out of control, and they want to control the message," according to the January 6 panel.
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