Fox News May 11, 2016 – House Republicans have invited a top White House adviser to testify on Capitol Hill after comments he made in a magazine interview about the Obama administration’s efforts to promote the Iran nuclear deal sparked a firestorm in Washington.
Republican leaders of the House Oversight Committee want Ben Rhodes, one of President Obama’s closest aides, to testify during a hearing next Tuesday named  “White House narratives on the Iran nuclear deal,” committee spokeswoman M.J. Henshaw confirmed to Fox News Wednesday.
Henshaw added that Rhodes, who serves as deputy national security adviser, has not yet gotten back to the committee, and that no one else has been asked yet to appear.
An aide to House Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told The Hill newspaper, which first reported the hearing that the congressman has threatened to use a subpoena to demand Rhodes’ appearance.
The hearing comes nearly a week after Rhodes’ comments to The New York Times Magazine ripped the Washington press corps, boasted of creating an “echo chamber” of supporters to sell the Iran nuclear deal.