Federal prosecutors are examining the fake Electoral College certifications created by Trump allies who falsely declared him the winner of seven states he lost in 2020. The fake certificates were sent to the National Archives in the weeks following the election and had no effect on the election. When asked by Bash specifically if the commission investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol had evidence that Trump was directing the fraudulent voter plan, Siff replied, “I do not want to miss our hearing.” “We will show during the hearing what the role of the President was in trying to persuade the states to name alternative voter lists, how this plan initially depended on the hopes that lawmakers would meet again and bless it,” he said. adding: “We will show you what we know about his role in this.” The committee’s upcoming hearing Tuesday will also include Georgia election officials and the Arizona House Speaker who has resisted pressure from Trump and his campaign to overturn the 2020 election results. Schiff also said the commission still has “many key people we have not interviewed, we would like” and could summon former Vice President Mike Pence as part of its investigation. “(It’s) definitely a possibility,” Sif said. “We are not ruling out anyone or anything at the moment.” Also Sunday, another Jan. 6 lawmaker said there should be “accountability” for the wrongdoing presented in the evidence and testimony before the select committee, but did not ask the Justice Department to prosecute Trump. Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin told NBC “Meet the Press” that “accountability can mean two things. One is the individual criminal accountability that people pay for their specific crimes, as more than 800 people already have prosecuted for everything from attacking a federal officer to intervening in a federal process to an insurgent conspiracy. “ “But accountability also means collective responsibility, and that is the real work,” he continued. “To tell the truth to the people, so that we can make decisions about how to strengthen democratic institutions in the future.” Asked by Bash about the commission’s Jan. 6 decision not to hand over documents related to its investigation to the Justice Department, Sif defended the commission’s position, saying: “I do not think Congress did. never that “. “I’m now participating in many investigations where parallel investigations have been made by the Department of Justice. Congress never says, ‘Hello, Department of Justice, another part of the government, just come and go through our archives.’ “We want to go through and just throw rifles at your files,” he said. The Ministry of Justice had expressed concern to the court that the selection committee had not notified transfers and was endangering its ability to prosecute and investigate the events of 6 January. Sif said the commission would work with the Justice Department and “wants to be successful in bringing people to justice, but I can not get into private conversations.” When pressured by Bash because the panel did not call witnesses who could challenge the panel, Schiff defended the selection of panel witnesses. “We are interviewing, honestly, anyone who has relevant information,” he said. “We have this relevant information in front of the public and we do it in a way that is the most coherent and that we can pass the main points to the public.” Siff also addressed a letter sent last week by the House Select Committee to Virginia “Ginny” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, asking her to speak to committee members about her role in 2020 election results. “We want to know what she knows, what her involvement was in this plan to overthrow the election,” Sif said. “He said he was willing to come and testify voluntarily. We’m glad to hear that.” CNN previously reported that the commission had emailed correspondence between Ginni Thomas and conservative lawyer John Eastman, who was the architect of the pressure campaign around Pence, and claimed that the then vice president had the legal capacity to prevent certification of 2020. election results. Sif told CNN on Sunday that Judge Thomas should have “nothing to do” with the insurgency. “I think it at least suggests – and I think we know enough to say this already – that Judge Thomas, in order to avoid even the occurrence of irregularities, should have nothing to do with cases related to January 6, especially “about our investigation,” he said. CNN’s Aaron Pellish contributed to this report.
