(CNN) White House counsel Pat Cipollone is considering resigning, sources familiar with his thinking tell CNN. Since the election, he had considered it multiple times but has been urged to stay for the good of the country by members of the Senate and the Cabinet. Before Wednesday's election certification proceedings and the violence that ensued, Cipollone had advised Trump that he didn't have a legal basis to justify his argument that Vice President Mike Pence had the power to block Congress' certification of Joe Biden's presidential win. He had also pushed backed on the legality of strategies Trump floated with other attorneys, such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, as a means to disputing the 2020 presidential election results. "He's there out of a sense of duty," one source said.

Source: CNN January 08, 2021 15:05 UTC