'If there was an invitation to participate, I would consider it,' Pence responded.
Rudy Giuliani is set to testify before a special grand jury on Wednesday as the target of a criminal investigation into potentially illegal attempts to interfere in the 2020 general election in Georgia.
Pence's answer was yet another break from his former boss, Donald Trump, who has repeatedly slammed the committee's work as politically motivated. The focus of one of the committee's hearings zeroed in on the pressure campaign on Pence, waged by Trump and his allies to attempt to get him to support their effort to overturn the election.
Hours later, when the joint session of Congress resumed after the attack, Pence rejected Trump's last-ditch demands to unilaterally reject Joe Biden's electoral victory. Pence and Trump haven't spoken in over a year, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News in June.
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