talking with donald trump, while he is willing to embrace that wing of the party, he doesn't want to draw the divisions to it. he was asked about it earlier today and he refused to answer questions. meanwhile, there's senator mitt romney, for example, tweeted his support for liz cheney today, so did senator cassidy of louisiana, larry hogan, the governor of maryland also tweeted his support for them. >> yeah. >> reporter: so this is something that the party would -- many in the party would rather be focusing on joe biden, but over and over again they are still talking about the last election, january 6th and taking former donald trump's side. >> let me get you on other developing news just into us here. listen, we knew that congressman jim jordan had spoken with former president trump on the 6th, he had said it publicly, he had talked about it before. what's interesting now is according to your reporting and our colleagues here at nbc is that the select committee apparently knows how long they spoke for, what time they spoke, which indicates the level of