The US House of Representatives committee investigating the storming of Congress has interviewed nearly 1,000 witnesses, but the nine-member panel has yet to speak with the two most prominent parties to the day's events, the Associated Press reported. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.
As the committee plans to hold a series of hearings next month, its members are debating whether to recall the two men, whose struggle to ratify Joe Biden's 2020 election victory has been the basis of the attack on the Capitol. For days, if not weeks, Trump has been pressuring Trump to use his ceremonial role in presiding over the January 6, 2021 Electoral College vote count to try to block or delay ratification of Biden's victory. Pence refused to do so, and rioters stormed the building and called for him to be hanged .
Nearly a year after their extensive investigation of the worst attack on the Capitol in more than two centuries, the commission has interviewed hundreds of witnesses and received more than 100,000 pages of documents. The interviews were conducted out of the public eye in federal office buildings and via private Zoom sessions.