"Yeah, I mean I speak, I spoke with the president last week. I speak with the president all the time. I spoke with him on January 6th. I mean I talk with President Trump all the time. And that's, that's, I don't think that's unusual. I would expect members of Congress to talk with the President of the United States when they're trying to get done the things they told the voters in their district to do. I'm actually kind of amazed sometimes that people keep asking this question. Of course, I talk to the president all the time. I talked, like I said, I talked with him last week.
"Uh, I'd have to go, I'd, I, I, I spoke with him that day after, I think after. I don't know if I spoke with him in the morning or not. I just don't know. Uh, I'd have to go back and, I mean I don't, I don't, I don't know, uh, that, when those conversations happened. But, um, what I know is that I spoke with him all the time."
Jan. 6 investigation will seek phone records related to attack, including lawmakers
Select Committee Chair Bennie Thompson said Monday they were asking telecommunications companies to preserve relevant documents.
Committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., listens during the House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill, July 27, 2021.
The select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection will seek electronic communications records related to the attack, including from members of Congress, the panel’s chair said Monday.
Select Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) told reporters his panel would be sending letters to telecommunications companies and social media companies, requesting they preserve relevant documents. CNN first reported the planned requests.
“I won't give you the names (of the companies). But, you know, in terms of telecom companies, they're the ones that pretty much you already know, maybe the networks, the social media platforms, those kinds of things,” he told reporters.
“We’ll look at all records at some point. It won't be tomorrow,” he said. The letters would seek voluntary compliance with their investigation before the committee would issue subpoenas, he said.
Thompson confirmed that members of Congress could be included in the records requests, and that there were “several hundred” people the committee sought to contact as part of the wide-ranging probe.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a committee member, told POLITICO a “set of preservation requests are going out — just to hold all relevant documents.”
The phone records could shed light on a series of phone calls between Republican members of Congress and former President Donald Trump on Jan. 6. Both Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke to Trump that day.
Some panel members have said Jordan and other Republican members of Congress are akin to “material witnesses” to the insurrection.
The House Oversight Committee had previously probed the involvement of social media companies like Parler, subsequently uncovering the company's warnings to the FBI about threats of violence before the attack.
The select committee has not yet scheduled another public hearing since its emotional testimony with officers who responded to the insurrection, though Thompson said the panel would make a decision on the focus of its next hearing “before the week’s up.”
Jan. 6 investigation will seek phone records related to attack, including lawmakers - POLITICO
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