• Republican Illinois Rep. Kinzinger is co-leading Thursday’s primetime January 6 committee hearing alongside Democrat Rep. Elaine Luria of Virginia
  • He told Face The Nation that the committee is still in talks over whether to attempt to get testimony from Donald Trump and Mike Pence
  • Kinzinger said he personally did not care about hearing from Trump because ‘he lies all the time’ but was interested in Pence’s testimony
  • Thursday’s January 6 hearing is the last in a series of eight but Kinzinger said there could be one ‘or two’ more after the committee concludes its probe
  • The primetime finale event will focus on the 187 minutes between when Trump’s supporters breached the Us Capitol and when he finally told them to go home 

Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois suggested on Sunday that the January 6 committee would not get much use out of a sworn deposition from Donald Trump – because he believes the former president wouldn’t shy away from perjury.

‘Look, Donald Trump has made it clear that he doesn’t mind not telling the truth, let’s just put that mildly,’ Kinzinger told CBS News’ Face The Nation.

‘He lies all the time, I wouldn’t put it past him to even lie under oath. So I’m not sure what the value is there.’

Kinzinger is leading the panel’s Thursday primetime hearing, its final planned event in a series of eight presentations.

But one or two more could be expected after the committee concludes its investigation and releases a report on the findings, the congressman told Face The Nation.

‘This investigation is not winding down,’ Kinzinger pledged.

‘This is the end of this kind of grouping. I fully expect when the report comes out, we may have a hearing or two around that.’

For now, the Illinois lawmaker said he and his colleagues on the bipartisan committee are ‘negotiating back and forth’ on whether to get Trump and other senior administration players to sit down.

And while he’s skeptical about getting any deliverables from Trump, Kinzinger did show interest in hearing from former Vice President Mike Pence.

‘I think there’s a difference between, do we subpoena him? Do we ask him for a transcribed interview? I think it would be important to hear everything he has to say,’ Kinzinger said of Pence.

‘That said, I’m not sure we get a ton more out of him than what his staff has already told us.’

Pence’s former chief of staff, Marc Short, testified before the committee in private earlier this year.

Short told CBS News in his own interview on Saturday that he believed having Pence testify would set a ‘very risky precedent’ for future incidents testing the separation of powers.