Jan. 6 committee to seek lawmaker records
BY
REBECCA BEITSCH - 08/23/21 06:22 PM EDT
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The select House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol plans to ask telecommunications companies to turn over the records of several hundred people, including lawmakers, the panel's chairman,
Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), told reporters Monday.
Thompson declined to identify which lawmakers' records would be sought in the probe but said the committee is reaching out to tech and communications companies as well as social media platforms.
“We have quite an exhaustive list of people. I won't tell you who they are, but it's several hundred people that make up the list of people we are planning to contact,” he said when asked if
the list included family members of former President Trump.
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Thompson's confirmation that lawmaker records would be sought is
sure to renew focus on House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and staunch Trump defender Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).
McCarthy and Jordan have both confirmed they held separate phone calls with the former president on Jan. 6.
Investigators are particularly interested in those conversations as they try to figure out what actions Trump took after he delivered a speech outside the White House urging thousands of his supporters to march to the Capitol and “fight like hell” to stop Congress’s certification of
President Biden’s election victory.
Jordan has said he doesn’t recall what they discussed or what time he spoke to Trump. But he was an influential figure in the GOP effort to overturn the presidential election.
Jan. 6 committee to seek lawmaker records