THAT DEPOSITION MENTION SOME OF OUR REPORTING. CAROLINE: IT HAPPENED ON NOVEMBER 30. THIS IS 42 PAGES LONG. THE QUESTIONS FOCUSED ON A STORY 12 NEWS BROKE LAST JULY, ABOUT A CONVERSATION BETWEEN VOS AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. AND, A RALLY VOS ATTENDED IN ALABAMA FOLLOWING THE PRESIDENT’S 2020 ELECTION LOSS. CAROLINE: NOVEMBER 30 VOSS IN THE HOT SEAT ANSWERING QUESTIONS FROM THE GENEROUS SIX COMMITTEE AFTER A STATEMENT THEY START OFF ASKING HIM ABOUT THIS PHOTO. SHOWING VOSS AND FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP ON A PRIVATE JET TO A RALLY IN ALABAMA. LIZ CHENEY ASKING WHY YOU WERE ATTENDING? HE SAID I DO NOT KNOW. GOING ON TO SAY IT WAS THE FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE WISCONSIN REPUBLICAN PARTY AND CHIEF OF STAFF WHO SUGGESTED IT. AND ANOTHER PORTION OF TESTIMONY HE SAID HE SPOKE TO TRUMP ABOUT 10 TIMES OVER THE COURSE OF A YEAR ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION SAYING, HE NEVER SPECIFICALLY SAID, YOU KNOW, ’OVERTURN THE ELECTION.’ OR ANY OF THOSE KINDS OF THINGS. IT WAS ALWAYS, ’YOU NEED TO FIND THE FRAUD AND WE NEED TO SHOW PEOPLE WHAT HAPPENED. >> I CANNOT STOP MY FINGERS OR WISH THAT I COULD DECERTIFY THE ELECTION AS CAN’T — UNCONSTITUTIONAL. CAROLINE: THE COMMITTEE ALSO FOCUSING ON 12 NEWS’ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH VOS OVER THE SUMMER WHEN VOS SAID TRUMP ‘ ’DISAGREED’ WITH THE WAY HE — WHEN HE SAID HE WAS NOT HAPPY. YOU KNOW HAVE ALL THE EVIDENCE TO FIX WHAT HAPPENED. KRISTIN: — CAROLINE: IF THEY RELEASED TRANSCRIPTS FROM 19 OTHE
January 6th Committee releases full Robin Vos testimony about Trump and 2020 election
A 42 page transcript of Robin Vos’ testimony was released on Friday.
The House committee investigating the January 6 riot at the U.S. capitol released its full transcript of a deposition with Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Friday.The 42 page transcription was released with 19 other interview transcriptions the committee completed, just days after it released its final report referring charges against former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department. The committee said Trump plotted to overturn the 2020 election results, pressured those around him and stoked his supporters to storm the capitol on January 6th, 2021.Vos, Wisconsin’s top republican, sat before the house committee on November 30. The committee focused many of its questions on an exclusive interview WISN 12 News broke in July, about a conversation between Vos and Trump, as well as a rally the two attended in Alabama, following the President’s 2020 election loss. Vos told the committee it was the former chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party and White House chief of staff Reince Priebus who suggested it. “Reince and I have been friends since we were kids. We were involved in the Republican Party together. So Reince reached out to me saying that, ‘Perhaps it would be a good idea for you to give an update to President Trump on the good things that you are doing in Wisconsin,'” Vos told the committee. In another portion of testimony, Vos said he spoke to Trump about ten times over the course of a year regarding the 2020 election.Vos said each time he spoke with Trump, the former President was not specific in his requests. “He never specifically said, you know, ‘Overturn the election.’ Or any of those kinds of things,” Vos said. “It was always, ‘You need to find the fraud and we need to show people what happened.'”Vos said he always told Trump, “We cannot go backwards. I have said that to the President multiple times. We can only look forward.” The Committee also focused on an exclusive interview Vos gave WISN 12 News over the summer, after he spoke with Trump on July 9th, which was the day after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled against the future use of ballot drop boxes.”It’s one of those, it’s very consistent. He makes his case, which I respect. He would like us to do something different in Wisconsin, which I explained is not allowed under the constitution. He has a different opinion,” Vos said to WISN 12 News reporter Matt Smith in July.Vos told the committee he knew the ruling had no effect on the 2020 election, even though he says President Trump told him, “You now have all the evidence that you need to fix what’s happened.””I reiterated the idea that we could not go backward and deal with 2020. We could only use it as evidence to build support for our Republican candidates, because we had already adjourned our legislative session,” Vos said. “To be able to build up the support for the reforms that we should be able to enact in January with a different Governor in charge.”The committee on Friday also released transcripts 19 other witnesses it interviewed: Benjamin Angle, William Bock, Bryan Cutler, Cassie Docksey, Josh Ellis, Albert Foley, Robert Glover, Sal Greco, Alex Holder, Scott Johnston, Anton Lunyk, David Millard, Jennifer Moore, Kashyap Patel, Robert Sinners, George Smith, Heidi Stirrup, Marcia Strickler and Richard Walters.
The House committee investigating the January 6 riot at the U.S. capitol released its full transcript of a deposition with Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Friday.
The 42 page transcription was released with 19 other interview transcriptions the committee completed, just days after it released its final report referring charges against former President Donald Trump to the Justice Department.
The committee said Trump plotted to overturn the 2020 election results, pressured those around him and stoked his supporters to storm the capitol on January 6th, 2021.
Vos, Wisconsin’s top republican, sat before the house committee on November 30.
The committee focused many of its questions on an exclusive interview WISN 12 News broke in July, about a conversation between Vos and Trump, as well as a rally the two attended in Alabama, following the President’s 2020 election loss.
Vos told the committee it was the former chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party and White House chief of staff Reince Priebus who suggested it.
“Reince and I have been friends since we were kids. We were involved in the Republican Party together. So Reince reached out to me saying that, ‘Perhaps it would be a good idea for you to give an update to President Trump on the good things that you are doing in Wisconsin,'” Vos told the committee.
In another portion of testimony, Vos said he spoke to Trump about ten times over the course of a year regarding the 2020 election.
Vos said each time he spoke with Trump, the former President was not specific in his requests.
“He never specifically said, you know, ‘Overturn the election.’ Or any of those kinds of things,” Vos said. “It was always, ‘You need to find the fraud and we need to show people what happened.'”
Vos said he always told Trump, “We cannot go backwards. I have said that to the President multiple times. We can only look forward.”
The Committee also focused on an exclusive interview Vos gave WISN 12 News over the summer, after he spoke with Trump on July 9th, which was the day after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled against the future use of ballot drop boxes.
“It’s one of those, it’s very consistent. He makes his case, which I respect. He would like us to do something different in Wisconsin, which I explained is not allowed under the constitution. He has a different opinion,” Vos said to WISN 12 News reporter Matt Smith in July.
Vos told the committee he knew the ruling had no effect on the 2020 election, even though he says President Trump told him, “You now have all the evidence that you need to fix what’s happened.”
“I reiterated the idea that we could not go backward and deal with 2020. We could only use it as evidence to build support for our Republican candidates, because we had already adjourned our legislative session,” Vos said. “To be able to build up the support for the reforms that we should be able to enact in January with a different Governor in charge.”
The committee on Friday also released transcripts 19 other witnesses it interviewed: Benjamin Angle, William Bock, Bryan Cutler, Cassie Docksey, Josh Ellis, Albert Foley, Robert Glover, Sal Greco, Alex Holder, Scott Johnston, Anton Lunyk, David Millard, Jennifer Moore, Kashyap Patel, Robert Sinners, George Smith, Heidi Stirrup, Marcia Strickler and Richard Walters.
