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Jackson's letter, meanwhile, said that newly revealed texts raised questions about the congressperson's connection to the Oath Keepers. The letter to Brooks focused entirely on his remarks from earlier this year, when he said that Trump 'asked me to rescind the 2020 elections, immediately remove Joe Biden from the White House, immediately put President Trump back in the White House, and hold a new special election for the presidency.'

'Your name was identified as a potential participant in that effort,' the letter to Biggs said. The committee also hinted at 'recent information' regarding an effort from some House Republicans to seek presidential pardons for actions related to the push to overturn the election. Trump repeatedly and falsely claimed that he beat Biden and that the race had been rigged through widespread fraud. Pence refused.īiggs also tried to persuade various officials that the 2020 election had been stolen, the panel's letter said. Trump and his allies - who failed in dozens of lawsuits to reverse Biden's wins in key swing states - heaped pressure on Vice President Mike Pence to reject the final vote tallies during the Jan. 6, 2021, when Congress met at the Capitol to confirm President Joe Biden's Electoral College victory. The committee said that Biggs participated in efforts to try to overturn the election on Jan. The latest requests for cooperation from Biggs, Brooks and Jackson include details about why the committee wants to talk to those lawmakers.

is reportedly set to voluntarily testify, as well. One of Trump's adult children, Ivanka Trump, has already talked to the investigators, and Donald Trump Jr. Those hundreds of witnesses include numerous high-ranking officials from the Trump White House. 'We urge our colleagues to join the hundreds of individuals who have shared information with the Select Committee as we work to get to the bottom of what happened on January 6th.' 'As we work to provide answers to the American people about that day, we consider it a patriotic duty for all witnesses to cooperate,' Thompson said in a news release Monday. Select committee Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said last week that the panel still wants to hear from McCarthy in light of the new audio.

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But a series of audio tapes, which were recorded shortly after the Capitol riot and leaked last month, showed McCarthy telling Republicans that he would ask Trump to resign as president and worrying about incendiary comments made by his GOP colleagues. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., rejected the committee's request to voluntarily provide information, saying he had 'nothing else to add' to the investigation. Jackson and Biggs join other GOP lawmakers who have already defied the panel's requests. Adam Kinzinger, 'from representing the party in this committee.'Ī spokesperson for Brooks did not respond to a request for comment. He also called for GOP leadership to remove the select panel's two Republican members, Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Illinois Rep. Biggs tweeted later Monday that he would also refuse to cooperate.

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