Overview

• Jean-Pierre arrived Friday morning for a transcribed, closed-door interview at the O’Neill House Office Building, becoming one of the committee’s highest-profile witnesses and the 13th Biden-era official to appear.
• Investigators are examining whether senior aides concealed signs of Biden’s decline and whether the autopen authorized executive actions, including a surge of roughly 2,500 clemency orders near the end of his term.
• The committee cited her daily proximity to Biden in compelling her appearance, noting her prior public statements labeling critical videos as “cheap fakes” and her denials that Biden had been treated for Parkinson’s disease.
• Chairman James Comer says the panel is wrapping interviews and will soon report findings, while Democrats and Biden allies dismiss the probe as partisan.
• Separately, a review launched by Trump’s White House counsel with the Justice Department produced documents indicating staff initially sought hand-signed clemency actions, a point Republicans cite as they question the late-term reliance on the autopen.