sabotage or overturn the election. well, now, in addition to the federal agencies and the media companies, now is telecom companies, cell phone providers being asked to provide documents, including members of congress who promoted the stop the steal events in washington on january 6 that led to the capitol attack. telecom companies are also being told to preserve records from adult members of president trump s family, members of his family who were also involved in those same events on january 6, including the former president s adult children, ivanka, don jr. and eric. they re also being told to preserve the phone records of former president trump himself, which is a pretty remarkable thing, right, to have a congressional investigation trying to obtain the detailed personal phone records of the former president and his kids and serving members of congress
not able to get out by the 31st, and near the airport is there any hope of getting out or any reason to think that they could go dark as you used the phrase for a month or two, and then to find the safe passage of a neighboring country, is that within the realm of possibility? it depends, but there is concern that the taliban has taken control of the cell phone providers and if they decide to shut them down, it is going to be extremely difficult to communicate with them, so we are trying to have ways to communicate with them. the next is that the taliban don t have complete control, and the next area is kabul, and the growing resistance which is the legitimate leader in panjshir,
trump world and they are now likely girding for a fight with mr. stone. so it might get even more interesting in short order. that for us is our broadcast for this monday night. with our thanks for being with us, asas we start a new week. on the behalf of all of our colleagues at the networks of nbc news, goodnight. happy to have you here. cnn is reporting tonight on what s sounds like it might be a dramatic turn, in the investigation into the january 6th attack on the capitol. nbc news has not verified this reporting, i m just siding with cnn has reported this evening. if in fact this is worn out, this would be sort of a big hairy deal. with cnn is reporting tonight is that the january six investigation, the select committee investigation attacking, they are about to send requests to cell phone providers. requesting that those cell
well, welcome back. zerlina and mehdi, our loverly colleagues, they re great, but there s only one you. we missed you. welcome back. thanks to you at home for being with us today. happy to have you here. cnn is reporting tonight on what sounds like it may be a dramatic turn in the investigation into the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. nbc news has not verified this reporting. i m just citing what cnn has reported. if in fact this is borne out, this would be sort of a big hairy deal. what cnn is reporting tonight is that the january 6th investigation, the select committee investigating the attack, they re about to send requests to cell phone providers, requesting that those cell phone providers preserve records from phone calls and the usage of cell phones by several people linked to the attack, including members of congress. the preservation notices are apparently reportedly due to go to the telecom providers as soon
reported. if in fact this is borne out, this would be sort of a big hairy deal. what cnn is reporting tonight is that the january 6th investigation, the select committee investigating the attack, they re about to send requests to cell phone providers, requesting that those cell phone providers preserve records from phone calls, and the usage of cell phones by several people linked to the attack, including members of congress. the preservation notices are apparently, reportedly, due to go to the telecom providers as soon as this week. the committee s chairman, congressman bennie thompson, has also previously said that he starts to plans to start sending out the committee s first subpoenas as of next week. the investigation into the attack on january 6th isn t just about what happened that day during the attack and why the security arrangements in the capitol were insufficient to protect the building from being breached and members of congress being directly threatened.