... Two of Donald Trump's top White House lawyers are slated to speak with the Jan. 6 select committee Wednesday, according to one person with knowledge of the arrangement.
Pat Cipollone, Trump's White House counsel, and his deputy Patrick Philbin, are expected to speak informally with the panel, a potential precursor to more formal transcribed testimony later. Cipollone and Philbin did not respond to requests for comment. A spokesperson for the panel declined to comment.
Cipollone and Philbin are the latest in a string of high-level aides to cooperate with the panel. ...
Cipollone and Philbin had also been part of a Oval Office meeting on Jan. 3, 2021, with Trump where they made it clear officials would resign if Trump installed Jeffrey Clark as acting attorney general to replace Jeffrey Rosen, according to the Senate Judiciary Committee's report on Trump's efforts to interfere at the Justice Department.
"One thing we know is you, Rosen, aren't going to do anything to overturn the election," Trump said, according to Rosen's testimony to investigators.
Philbin's materials were also at issue in at least one tranche of records delivered by the National Archives to the select committee earlier this year. According to a Justice Department court filing, written on behalf of the Archives, the documents included files drawn from Philbin's records such as "a memorandum apparently originating outside the White House regarding a potential lawsuit by the United States against several states President Biden won." ...
