Marc Short, the chief of staff of former US Vice President Mike Pence, testified before the January 6 committee’s federal grand jury last week. Short has previously cooperated in a separate House committee investigation of the insurrection.

Marc Short, 52, appeared before the grand jury after receiving a federal subpoena, he confirmed to CNN. “I did receive a subpoena for the federal grand jury and I complied with that subpoena”, he said on Monday.

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Details about Short’s conversation with the grand jury investigating the January 6 riots are unclear. However, he confirmed that this was his only appearance before the grand jury so far, according to reports from Associated Press.

Short, a close aide to Pence, was with the Vice President on the day of the insurrection. He accompanied Pence while he took shelter from the mob, which chanted “Hang Mike Pence.”

The update comes at a time when the Justice Department has been investigating wide-ranging efforts by allies of former President Donald Trump to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election, including through the creation of slates of fake electors in battleground states intended to subvert the vote count.  

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The January 6 committee, headed by chair Bennie Thompson and Vice Chair Liz Cheney, concluded its public hearings for this summer. The eight sessions put forward testimonies of multiple White House staffers, aides of former President Donald Trump, Presidential advisers and cabinet officials.

In video testimony played at one of the panel’s hearings last month, Short recalled that Pence had communicated to Trump “many times” that he did not agree with efforts to get him to overturn the election results, including by rejecting electors or by simply declaring Trump the winner.