Jan. 6 panel asks McCarthy to cooperate
By Rebecca Beitsch - 01/12/22 03:57 PM EST
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol took the remarkable step Wednesday of asking for voluntary cooperation from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), the highest-ranking Republican to face such a request in the probe.
In a six-page letter to McCarthy, the committee laid out a host of questions for the Republican leader, who initially condemned the attack and former President Trump’s role in it but who has since become a chief critic of the panel and its work.
“You have acknowledged speaking directly with the former President while the violence was underway on Jan. 6. ... Further, you shared an account of your communications with President Trump with a local news outlet in your district, which reported that you had a 'very heated conversation' with the President as the riot was taking place, and urged the President to 'get help' to the Capitol,” Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the select committee, wrote in the letter to McCarthy.
“As is readily apparent, all of this information bears directly on President Trump’s state of mind during the January 6th attack as the violence was underway.”
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