the conversations happen. let s get more tanks and ammunition. let s get more drones. okay. but then at the same time, what happened if putin crosses the line? this is the fascinating question is white house has been gaming out, the pentagon has been gaming out. i agree with congressman that it would certainly cross a line, a red line. we have not seen nuclear use since of a nuclear weapon being used in anger since august of 1945, and that was the second attack, the one on nagasaki. that said, i think the place where the biden administration might separate itself from what you just heard was that respond in kind. so let s just gain this out for a moment. supposing that putin launches a tactical nuclear weapon either on ukrainian territory or over the black sea, or supposing he conducts an atmospheric nuclear tests which were banned in the 60s and says this is a reminder
invitations like this. the chairman telling us last week that they re also interested in talking to some members of the united states senate as well. so this could just be the beginning of an offensive here by the january 6th select committee to find out just how involved members of congress were in the events leading up to january 6th. important breaking news. ryan nobles on capitol hill. appreciate the update. let s bring the conversation in the room. with me to share the reporting and insights, malika henderson, and lauren fox. i m look agent the letters here, lauren. you roam the halls on capitol hill. they re talking about encrypted conversations, three text messages involving ronny jackson, the former white house physician, a congressman from texas. he needs oath keeper help. anyone inside? next messenger, hope they can help dr. jackson. dr. jackson on the move, needs protection if anyone inside. he has critical data to protect. every week we re learning
into the capitol insurrection. let s get to capitol hill at cnn s ryan nobles. tell us more. reporter: yeah. this doubles the number of republican members the january 6th select committee is interested in talking to about what they knew about the events leading up to january 6th and the day itself. among them, representative andy biggs of arizona. he the former chair of the freedom caucus. m mo brooks of alabama and ron ny jackson of texas. they believe biggs was part of a meeting on december 21st designed to talk about getting vice president pence to refuse to certify the election results. they want to know more information about that. mo brooks has said openly and publicly well after the inauguration, even as late as september of 21, the former president was still encouraging him to try to find a way to rescind the election results. ronny jackson is a strong
supporter of president trump, but his name just popped up in the case involving mark meadows where there are members of the oath keepers texting about finding ronny jackson and offering him security and support on january 6th. the other committee committee members are kevin mccarthy, scott perry of pennsylvania who we talked at in an exclusive report last week texting meadow about conspiracy theories related to the election, and jim jordan who was in the group of the text messages from meadows. again, this gets back to the question, the committee can ask for this, but so far the republican members have stood in the way of any type of cooperation with the committee. it begs the question, what does the committee do next? last week the chairman told me they have not ruled out subpoenas. that would be a complicated process. the other part of this is that this may not be the end of
you look at andy biggs and mo brooks and ronny jackson, three trump loyalists. the american people one would hope, want to know the answers. these people put their hands on a bible, swore an oath to the skus. they were part of ongoing conversations on election day. in the case of congressman brooks, well past the biden inauguration. that s right. and a lot of the information the committee has gotten whether it s through testimony of other people or text messages suggested a lot of folks were intimately involved, trying to install people, the doj, for instance. if you think about somebody like scott perry. so far these people have essentially said no, they re not going to cooperate with this committee. unlikely they would be subpoenaed. that s sort of something that congress folks don t like to do to other congress folks. that s unlikely. even if they were subpoenaed, you imagine this to be a long, drawn out fight between these members in the committee.