GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger says he ‘would love’ for Mike Pence to appear before the January 6 committee

• Kinzinger said he “would love” to see former VP Mike Pence appear before the January 6 committee.
• Pence was a key figure that day, rejecting Trump’s overtures to overturn the 2020 election results.
• “I would hope and think that the vice president would want to come in and tell his story,” he said.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Sunday said he “would love” to see former Vice President Mike Pence appear before the January 6 committee, which will begin its public hearings next month.

Pence was a key figure on January 6, 2021, as he refused former President Donald Trump’s repeated attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. Pence also presided over the certification of the Electoral College results that affirmed now-President Joe Biden’s victory.

While several Pence aides, including former chief of staff Marc Short and former press secretary Alyssa Farah, cooperated with the committee, the former vice president himself has not yet directly communicated with the panel.

During an appearance on the CBS program “Face the Nation,” Kinzinger said he “would love to see that.”

“I hope he would do so voluntarily,” the Illinois Republican said. “These are decisions that we’re going to end up making from a tactical perspective in the next week or two as we basically pin down what this hearing schedule is going to look like … as we go into the full narrative of this thing.”

He added: “I would hope and think that the vice president would want to come in and tell his story because he did do the right thing on that day. If he doesn’t, then we’ll look at the options we have available to us, if there’s information we don’t already have.”

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Kinzinger said the panel will determine who it wants to speak with in the coming weeks as it shapes the schedule for the upcoming hearings.

“Right now, we’re kind of not even building a broader narrative,” he said. “We’re going deeper with richer and more detail to show the American people.”

The committee has so far conducted over 900 interviews and obtained more than 100,000 documents in its probe.

Kinzinger didn’t rule out subpoenas for some of his Republican colleagues. He and Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the committee’s vice-chair, are the only GOP members on the panel.

“We’ve requested information from various members in terms of whether we move forward with a subpoena is going to be both a strategic, tactical decision and a question of whether or not, you know, we can do that and get the information in time,” he remarked during the CBS interview.

He added: “I think ultimately whatever we can do to get that information — I think if that takes a subpoena, it takes a subpoena. But I think the key is, regardless of even what some members of Congress are going to tell us, we know a lot of information around it.”