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Transcript/ScriptWashington Week Ahead {10July2022} -- WEB
HEADLINE: January 6th Committee to Hold Next Scheduled Hearing This Week
TEASER: Tuesday’s hearing to focus on participation of white nationalist groups
PUBLISHED AT: 7/10/2022 2:45p.m.
BYLINE: Arash Arabasadi
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DATELINE: Washington
VIDEOGRAPHER: AP/ ABC “This Week”/ January 6th Committee Deposition
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[[The select House ((of Representatives)) Committee investigating the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol is set to hold its next scheduled hearing this week (on Tuesday). Committee members say the hearing will focus on white nationalist groups’ participation in the attack. As VOA’s Arash Arabasadi reports, the seventh hearing follows a closed-door session last week with a former top White House lawyer.]]
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Friday in Washington, former White House counsel, Pat Cipollone ((sih-pah-lone-E)) arrived at the United States Capitol to testify behind closed doors before the January 6th Committee. Cipollone was then-President Trump’s top White House lawyer.
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A top aide to the former White House Chief of Staff earlier testified to an increasingly angry and frustrated Trump infuriated that his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election were failing.
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The aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, testified Cipollone had warned of “serious legal consequences” leading-up to January 6th. She testified that on the morning of the attack, Cipollone said quote, “We’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable.”
[RADIO TRACK: Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger is on the committee investigating the attack, and he spoke Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”]
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((Rep. Adam Kinzinger, Republican))
“You’ll see over the next couple of hearings a little of what he said. Certainly, you’ll see a lot of that in the report, but at no point was there any contradiction to what anybody said. The rest I’ll have to leave to the presentation for the committee.”
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Trump, for his part, continues blasting committee members as hacks and their work as a sham. He recently took to Truth Social, the social media platform he started, to say quote: “Why would a future President of the United States want to have candid and important conversations with his White House Counsel if he thought there was even a small chance that this person, essentially acting as a ‘lawyer’ for the country, may someday be brought before a partisan and openly hostile committee in Congress?”
((NARRATOR))
All of this follows a week in which the IRS ((Internal Revenue Service)) commissioner asked to review intensive tax audits against ex-FBI director James Comey and former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, both of whom Trump frequently and publicly targeted during his presidency.
Trump became the first modern president to not openly make available his own tax returns.
Arash Arabasadi, VOA News.
NewsML Media TopicsArts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
NetworkVOA
Location (dateline)Washington D.C.
Embargo DateJuly 10, 2022 15:03 EDT
BylineArash Arabasadi, VOA News.
Brand / Language ServiceVoice of America - English
