- The committee voted to make criminal referrals to the Justice Department for former President Donald Trump, lawyer John Eastman and unspecified "others." Trump was referred under four criminal statutes: obstructing an official proceeding, making false statements, defrauding the U.S. and inciting an insurrection.
- The panel also referred four Republican members of Congress to the House Ethics Committee for ignoring its subpoenas, though it did not name the members.
- The committee released a 154-page summary of its findings Monday. The full final report is expected to be made public later this week.
- The committee was formed in July 2021, and has spent the last 17 months investigating the U.S. Capitol attack, which temporarily stopped Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election results, and the events surrounding it.
The committee believes the Department of Justice can compel former White House counsel Pat Cipollone to testify about his conversations with Trump, the report summary says.
Cipollone spoke to the committee, and his testimony is quoted extensively in the panel's summary. But he had avoided discussing direct talks with Trump with the committee, because of executive privilege concerns.
“During the ensuing riot, the president refused to condemn the violence or encourage the crowd to disperse despite repeated pleas from his staff and family that he do so," the summary says. "The committee has evidence from multiple sources establishing these facts, including testimony from former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone.”
“Although Cipollone’s testimony did not disclose a number of direct communications with President Trump in light of concerns about executive privilege, the department now appears to have obtained a ruling that Cipollone can testify before a grand jury about these communications," the summary’s authors wrote. "Based on the information it has obtained, the committee believes that Cipollone and others can provide direct testimony establishing that President Trump refused repeatedly, for multiple hours, to make a public statement directing his violent and lawless supporters to leave the Capitol."