in washington the house committee
investigating the january 6 capital
attack heard testimony from another
person close to former president trump
kimberly guilfoyle the fiance of donald
trump jr spoke with the panel yesterday
becoming the third trump family member
or pseudo family member in this
situation to answer questions in recent
weeks nbc news capitol hill
correspondent ali vitale joins us with
more aly good morning to you so this is
actually the second time guilfoyle met
with the committee but with the previous
meeting in february broke down when her
lawyer objected to who was in the room
so what do we know about her
participation this time and what the
committee hoped to learn from her
yeah that's exactly right well this
testimony comes after being subpoenaed
because you're right guilfoyle did meet
with the committee several weeks ago
they objected to the people who were in
the room they accused the january 6th
committee of leaking of course the
committee says that's not at all what
happened and then they went back and
subpoenaed kimberly guilfoyle and now
she appeared yesterday for more than
nine hours you're right though this does
come against the backdrop of some pretty
significant cooperation from members of
trump's inner circle specifically his
family members yes kimberly guilfoyle is
as you said pseudo family she's engaged
to donald trump jr but her testimony is
just a week after ivanka trump jared
kushner both of them spoke to the
committee for many hours those were done
voluntarily but it does show for the
committee that as they enter the final
phase of fact-finding here they're
getting some pretty notable cooperation
so allie we know in a related civil case
of judges said former president trump
probably committed crimes by trying to
obstruct congress from certifying the
2020 election at this point how likely
is it the house committee could actually
request trump's testimony or even refer
him to the doj hoping for prosecution
look those are the really huge questions
that are looming over this committee's
work right now because we know that
their timeline is pretty much as follows
now that we're in the spring they want
to do public hearings there are
questions about who will be willing to
be part of those hearings especially if
they're people who have spoken in front
of the committee but still have
political ties to this world of course
there's still the open question of
whether or not they're going to subpoena
any of the republican lawmakers who were
in touch with the white house mark
meadows even donald trump himself about
what they were doing in the days and
weeks leading up to january 6th and then
there's that huge question that you
asked what are they going to do about
donald trump there have been a lot of
questions that we've been asking
lawmakers on the hill who are on this
committee they've been coy about this
but notably they haven't shut the door
on whether they're going to move to
interview trump or what the ultimate
result is going to be of that if they're
going to try to refer some kind of
prosecution to the department of justice
because again this really this committee
is a fact-finding committee they're able
to issue their reports they are able to
hold public hearings of course they're
able to subpoena people but they are not
a legal body that of course has to go
through the department of justice we've
seen them do that several times before
with these criminal contempt referrals
but obviously an entirely different
ballgame when you're talking about a
former president and that really is the
culmination of this committee's work we
have yet to see what they're actually
going to do with that though joe i mean
yeah ali we talk about fact finding
they've interviewed more than 800
witnesses so far in this investigation
do we have any sense of who else they
hope to speak with
well look donald trump is really one of
the ultimate looming questions here as i
mentioned those republican lawmakers who
we know are collected in the mark
meadows text and in other places we know
also from donald trump's call log the
people that he was speaking to on
january 6th however incomplete that call
log was we even saw stephen miller one
of the top advisers to the former
president come into the committee last
week so they are still getting
significant cooperation again the
question is going to be are they willing
to go for a donald trump interview and
also in the halls of congress are they
willing to start subpoenaing their
colleagues on the republican side of the
aisle they've asked several republican
lawmakers to come in but they have not
compelled them to do so that's a
question i keep asking my sources and
the members of the committee when i see
them in the halls of congress is that a
line that they're willing to go past
next and as they get into this final
phase thompson has said the chairman
wants to wrap up these depositions and
fact findings by around this time quite
frankly and they want to move into a
public phase they're going to have to
answer these questions really soon all
right allie vitale we know you'll keep
asking the questions thanks so much for
joining us this morning we appreciate it
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