Oath Keepers leader offers Jan. 6 testimony — but only if it's live – POLITICO

The committee declined to comment on Rhodes’ request. The panel’s next hearing, slated for Tuesday, is expected to focus on the role of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys preparation. Bright said he doesn’t anticipate the arrangements could be made in time for Tuesday’s hearing but hopes the panel would consider rescheduling or adding a date for Rhodes to testify. The panel has so far not agreed to other witnesses’ demands for live testimony without first appearing for a taped deposition. Bright said Rhodes is unwilling to sit for a taped deposition, saying he doesn’t trust the panel to air Rhodes’ remarks in full. Rhodes previously interviewed with the committee but largely invoked his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination. Prosecutors say Rhodes was the ringleader of a plan to violently prevent the peaceful transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. Several members of the group have already pleaded guilty to their roles in the planning, including at least two who have pleaded to seditious conspiracy. Rhodes’ associates had stockpiled weapons at a hotel in Arlington, Va. that they intended to ferry into Washington if Trump had invoked the Insurrection Act in an attempt to remain in power. They…
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