Jan. 6 panel asks Newt Gingrich to testify

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has asked former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to voluntarily testify to his alleged role in the incident.

In a Thursday letter to the Georgia Republican, committee chair Mississippi Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson expressed interest in the former speaker's efforts to advance former President Donald Trump's narrative that election fraud influenced the outcome of the 2020 election, per CNN.

“Some of the information that we have obtained includes email messages that you exchanged with senior advisors to President Trump and others, including Jared Kushner and Jason Miller, in which you provided detailed input into television advertisements that repeated and relied upon false claims about fraud in the 2020 election," Thompson wrote.

“These advertising efforts were not designed to encourage voting for a particular candidate,” the letter continued. “Instead, these efforts attempted to cast doubt on the outcome of the election after voting had already taken place.”

The committee has not yet subpoenaed Gingrich and is instead asking for his voluntarily cooperation with the investigation.

Republicans have largely condemned the committee as being a Democrat-run political hit-job, pointing in particular to Pelosi's rejection of certain GOP nominees to the committee and the inclusion of only anti-Trump Republicans.