Pat Cipollone on Capitol Hill for @January6thCmte closed session. pic.twitter.com/RKR8tcyl5V
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Cipollone has been doing Big Political Lawyering for many years. He’s got a hard-earned reputation (not to mention the income that’s helped him raise ten children) to protect, so it was blatantly too much to hope that he’d start babbling like a John Eastman or a Rudy Giuliani.
ABC, this morning:
… His testimony will be videotaped and it’s expected that clips of Cipollone’s deposition will be presented during the committee’s upcoming public hearings, according to sources familiar with the planning.
Cipollone and the committee, according to sources, have agreed he can be asked about what he knows about the actions taken by former top Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark to use the powers of the Justice Department to attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, what Cipollone did during the day of Jan. 6, and interactions he was present for or had with former Trump lawyer John Eastman as well as interactions he was present for or had with members of Congress following the 2020 election.
The questioning on those topics is expected to exclude conversations he had directly with former President Donald Trump.
Sources close to Cipollone told ABC News it is possible he may claim some form of executive privilege, which sources familiar with the negotiations say is not expected to be challenged by committee investigators…
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