Former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone has agreed to testify before the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.

What You Need To Know

• Former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone has agreed to testify before the House Jan. 6 panel


• Cipollone was subpoenaed by the House Jan. 6 panel last week following weeks of public pressure to testify


• He said to have repeatedly raised concerns about the former president’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat and at one point threatened to resign


• One witness said Cipollone referred to a proposed letter making false claims about voter fraud as a “murder-suicide pact;" another witness said Cipollone had warned her that Trump was at risk of committing "every crime imaginable"

The news was first reported by The New York Times. The source told the AP that Cipollone agreed to appear before the committee for a private, transcribed interview

The panel said that Cipollone, who was subpoenaed by the House Jan. 6 panel last week following weeks of public pressure to testify, “repeatedly raised legal and other concerns about President Trump’s activities” leading up to and on the day of the riot, citing recent testimony.

Cipollone, who was Trump’s top White House lawyer, is said to have repeatedly raised concerns about the former president’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat and at one point threatened to resign.

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