NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Rep. Liz Cheney said Sunday that the Jan. 6 select committee has seen "firsthand testimony" that former President Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka, asked her father to intervene during the deadly riot.
"We know his daughter -- we have firsthand testimony that his daughter Ivanka went in at least twice to ask him to 'please stop this violence,'" the Wyoming Republican and committee vice-chair said on ABC's "This Week."
Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, said "it's hard to imagine a more significant or more serious dereliction of duty."
"Any man who would not [act], any man who would provoke a violent assault on the Capitol to stop the counting of electoral votes, any man who would watch television as police officers are being beaten as his supporters were invading the Capitol of the United States is clearly unfit for future office and can clearly never be near the Oval Office ever again," Cheney added.
Cheney's comments come days ahead of the one-year anniversary of the riot and as the committee is set to "go public" with more of their key findings.
Ivanka's actions appear to match with the reporting discussed in the book, "I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year," which said Ivanka told her aides during the melee: "I’m going down to my dad. This has to stop."
Committee Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson said on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday, adding that their bipartisan committee "significant testimony that leads us to believe that the White House had been told to do something."
"We want to verify all of it, so that, when we produce our report and when we have the hearings, the public will have an opportunity to see for themselves," the Mississippi Democrat said.
Thompson did not rule out the possibility of a criminal referral for Trump as well.
"The only thing I can say is it’s highly unusual for anyone in charge of anything to watch what’s going on and do nothing," he added.
As Capitol Hill and the White House prepare to memorialize the attack's first anniversary this week, Trump plans to hold a news conference seemingly to continue to cast doubt on the 2020 election and deny the attack.
"Jan. 6 was one of the darkest days in our democracy," White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said. "It was a day when our nation's capital was under attack and I think there's no question you'll see us commemorate that day."
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