(CNN)The Trump family's cooperation with the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol -- and Ivanka Trump's appearance in particular -- has proven useful in confirming other key testimony about the state of play inside the White House as well as then-President Donald Trump's state of mind that day.
In a recent exclusive interview with CNN, committee Chairman Bennie Thompson gave the most extensive account yet of the testimony behind closed doors.
"There were questions asked about what was she doing at the time that the insurrection was occurring at the Capitol, and she told us," the Mississippi Democrat said of Ivanka Trump. Investigators "asked certain questions about her awareness of what her father was doing. She told us."
While Thompson was careful to point out that Donald Trump's daughter and son-in-law Jared Kushner did not give away any "trade secrets," and that their testimony was not against Trump himself, he said the couple did corroborate critical testimony from others who said the then-President was reluctant to try to call off the rioters despite being asked to do so.
"They kinda supported the fact that the President was told he had to do something to stop the January 6 insurrection. That he had to be public with it; he had to be direct," Thompson said. "So in that respect ... we have been able to systematically, with our depositions and interviewing of other witnesses, we've been able to fill in a lot of the gaps."
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