The House panel investigating the Capitol insurrection questioned the daughter of the former president for eight hours on Tuesday about her recollections of that day inside the White House.
Bennie Thompson, the Mississippi Democrat who chairs the committee, told reporters late Tuesday afternoon that she was answering questions.
He said that she was answering questions, not in a broad, chatty term.
During her father's presidency, she served as a senior White House adviser. She wasn't subpoenaed.
Her testimony followed last week's interview by the committee of her husband. The committee questioned him remotely for more than six hours, while he was traveling back to the U.S. from abroad.
Thompson said her voluntary testimony has significant value.
Thompson said that he wasn't aware of the claim of executive privilege by the president's daughter.
A spokesman for the daughter of the president didn't respond to requests for comment.
Thompson had previously written to the president's daughter requesting her voluntary cooperation on a range of critical topics, and in a publicly released letter pointed out other witness testimony placing her in the Oval Office.
The panel wanted to question her about the conversations Donald Trump had with Mike Pence and the violence at the Capitol.
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