{"id":1618164,"date":"2022-08-21T11:49:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T15:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1618164"},"modified":"2022-08-21T11:49:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T15:49:17","slug":"pence-dials-back-willingness-to-testify-to-jan-6-house-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-dials-back-willingness-to-testify-to-jan-6-house-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence Dials Back Willingness to Testify to Jan. 6 House Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpence-dials-back-willingness-to-testify-to-jan-6-house-committee%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1618164&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mike-pence\">Mike Pence<\/a> reneged on his previous statement that he would testify before the House Jan. 6 committee after suggesting he would.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the former vice president said he would consider offering his testimony in front of the Democrat-led committee investigating the Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021. Meanwhile, Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-liz-cheney\">Liz Cheney<\/a> (R-Wyo.), considered the face of the panel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2022\/08\/19\/cheney-pence-jan-6-trump-mccarthy\">recently told news outlets<\/a>\u00a0that Pence is in talks with the committee to testify.<\/p>\n<p>But during an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/aug\/20\/pence-dials-back-willingness-testify-house-jan-6-c\/\">interview<\/a> with The Washington Times over the weekend, Pence had a more cautious tone and described the committee as \u201cvery partisan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the committee wanted to extend a formal invitation I would consider it, but we would reflect very carefully on my obligations to preserve the separation of powers and the constitutional framework that I served in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pence, a former Republican governor from Indiana before becoming vice president, told the paper that he has \u201creal concerns about the partisan nature of the Jan. 6 committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy essentially rendering this as a partisan committee that\u2019s operating on a very partisan basis\u2014and at times leaking information and leaking testimony\u2014I think in many respects it has squandered an opportunity to really thoughtfully examine what took place that day and where the failings were,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving the White House, the paths of Pence and his former boss,\u00a0former President Donald Trump, have diverged. Trump\u00a0criticized Pence for not objecting to or attempting to delay the certification of the election on Jan. 6, while Pence has claimed he did not have the power to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Vice President [Mike Pence] had \u2018absolutely no right\u2019 to change the Presidential Election results in the Senate, despite fraud and many other irregularities, how come the Democrats and RINO Republicans \u2026 are desperately trying to pass legislation that will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence reneged on his previous statement that he would testify before the House Jan. 6 committee after suggesting he would. Recently, the former vice president said he would consider offering his testimony in front of the Democrat-led committee investigating the Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021. Meanwhile, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}