Former Vice President Mike Pence says he’ll “evaluate” any requests to cooperate with the special congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol.
“We’ll evaluate any of those requests as they come,” the former vice president told Fox News and the Associated Press on Wednesday, during a jam-packed one-day trip to New Hampshire.
The select committee, created by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic majority in the chamber, is investigating the origins of the Jan. 6 incident.
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Pence, in his constitutional role, oversaw the congressional certification and ignored repeated requests by then-President Trump to overturn the Electoral College results. This caused quite the stir between Trump and Pence.
The former vice president, for months, has said that he did “the right thing” and did his “duty under the Constitution.”
“Jan. 6 was a tragic day in the life of our nation’s capital. But thanks to the efforts of law enforcement that day, we quelled the riot and reconvened the Congress, and we completed our work,” Pence emphasized in an interview with Fox News during a stop at a bakery in Bedford, New Hampshire.
Asked if he’d cooperate with the committee, Pence said: “They’ve begun an investigation, and I can tell you that going forward, we’ll do our part to make sure the American people understand the issues on that day, which for me ultimately come down to what the Constitution required. From the founding of this nation, our founders believed that elections should be governed at the state level and that the only role the Congress would have would be to open and count the electoral votes.”
Pence once again noted that “for my part, I know we did our duty, opening and counting the votes.”
And he predicted that “in the days ahead the American people are going to get the answers they need and understand what took place that day, and I hope they’ll see more and more that the work we did that day is consistent with our Constitution and our laws.”
But the former vice president repeated comments he’s made before, saying, “I believe there were irregularities in the states” during the 2020 presidential election.
And pointing to moves by GOP-controlled states this year to pass new laws tightening voting rules, Pence said he’s “pleased to see states around the country beginning to reform their state election laws to effectuate that.”
Pence’s comments came two days after word that Marc Short, one of Pence’s closest advisers, is cooperating with the Jan. 6 committee.
This is an excerpt from Fox News.
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