Capitol attack panel will determine if Trump committed crime ? Republican

Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the House committee investigating the deadly 6 January Capitol attack incited by Donald Trump, said on Sunday he was not "yet" ready to declare the former president guilty of a crime - but that the panel was investigating the likelihood that he is.

"Nobody is above the law," the Illinois congressman told CNN's State of the Union. "And if the president knowingly allowed what happened on 6 January to happen, and, in fact, was giddy about it, and that violates a criminal statute, he needs to be held accountable for that."

The committee has been picking up pace in recent weeks with dozens of subpoenas issued, some to close Trump aides. The waters lapped at the doors of Trump's Oval Office this week when his fourth and final chief of staff, Mark Meadows, became a focus of the investigation over tweets he received on and around the day of the insurrection.

The committee voted unanimously to refer Meadows for criminal prosecution for contempt of Congress, after he withdrew his cooperation.

Kinzinger, who alongside fellow Republican Liz Cheney has drawn the ire of Trump allies for serving on the committee, said he had no qualms about scrutinising how Trump incited supporters to try to overturn his election defeat by Joe Biden, which he says was the result of massive electoral fraud, which it was not.

"He's not a king," Kinzinger said, "Former presidents, they aren't former kings."

Kinzinger added that he feared the events of 6 January were "trial run" for Trump and his allies to attempt another coup.