Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kouchner made a “valuable” appearance Thursday before the House of Representatives Committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol insurgency. Luria, a member of the committee, said. “It was really valuable for us to have the opportunity to talk to him,” Luria told MSNBC. The Democrat spokesman declined to give details of Kouchner’s appearance before the panel via video link, but said he had commented on various reports on the day’s events that had already been published. “He was able to provide us with information voluntarily to verify, to document, to give his own opinion on this different report,” he said. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Kouchner is the first close relative of the former president known to have spoken to Parliament’s Select Committee. He also served as a senior adviser to the White House on Trump. A committee spokesman declined to comment. The Select Committee has conducted hundreds of interviews in its investigation into the Capitol attack last year by Trump supporters as lawmakers prepared to certify Republican defeat in the November 2020 presidential election by Democratic President Joe Biden. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Report by Patricia Zengerle. Edited by David Gregorio Our role models: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
