vote so closely, so we re going to spearhead a more aggressive investigation into can tol security and potentially even subpoena nancy speaker, nancy pelosi, along with her staff to find out more information, but this revelation pokes holes and shreds a lot of credibility if the republicans had anything to begin with and laudermilk who claims to have reviewed this footage lims led one of these tours in the lead-up to january 6th and it also shows, i think, the extensive amount of evidence that they ve collected and they seem to be checking off the boxes to make sure they give lawmakers again the opportunity to respond to this evidence which at this point seems irrefutable especially if they have it in video form. harry, i feel like this letter is telling us two things.
meeting, a voluntary meeting, this is not a subpoena, with loudermilk last week. loudermilk was one of the house republicans who objected to the certification of president joe biden s victory. we also know he was in contact with then chief of staff mark meadows while the insurrection was taking place. from those thousands of text messages mark meadows turned over, obtained by cnn, quote, it is really bad up here on the hill. they have breached the capitol, georgia republican representative barry loudermilk wrote. quote, potus is engaging, meadows sent in response to loudermilk. quote, thanks, this doesn t help our cause, loudermilk responds. it s where we start the hour with some of our favorite reporters and friends. john brennan is here. also joining us, carol leonnig, dan goldman s back, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, as well as the former majority counsel during donald trump s first impeachment trial. with me at the table for the hour, former
tapes, but the letter from the 1/6 committee says nothing of the capitol hill police tapes. so, they re really not it s really he s not addressing what they allege. they find out about a tour and they re saying that his denial this. there were no tours, no large groups, no one with maga hats on, they have evidence that contradicts that. they don t say they saw something different on the capitol police tapes. no. this is an interesting response from mr. loudermilk. well, it s sort of trying to slice and dice it rather than to be up front about it. it sounds like the january 6th committee obviously has evidence, has video evidence. that they say contradicts the sentence, there were no tours, no large groups, no one with maga hats on. yes. i mean, again, we re going to see the evidence, and what this points out, as we ve also said before, the january 6th committee knows a whole heck of a lot more than we know. they know a whole heck of a lot more than we think they know. w
conspiracy. they charged seditious conspiracy. so you look atollie alexander who went through the select committee, as well? we believe you had information regarding a tour that you led through parts of the capitol complex on january 5, 2021. first, i think jackie s supposition is sound, and i think come member could get footage and the majority would know. someone who is cooperating and has promised already this is sort of you re pretty chopped and going on a tour before your day event, i think there s a lotful selfie material that you did give over. second, the ethics committee can t really take action and a guy like loudermilk actually making a big thing to submit it
committee to get through its work, and so it s unclear whether or not representative loudermilk, if he did conduct such a tour, whether he knew about the intentions of the individuals that went along with them and this is something that is critically important for them to find out and they re only going to get to that if he is willing to comply with their request that he voluntarily appear in front of the committee, and that s why i think it s important that they continue to pursue this and just like representative sherrill said, it s important for us to get to the bottom of what happened on january 6th. you re going to be the beneficiary of something that just came across our desk, you saw it come through. in response to this letter from the january 6th committee, which as director brennan accurately puts, is co-chaired by one of his republican colleagues, former member of leadership, liz cheney, he s asking for the u.s. capitol police to, quote, release the tapes of january 5th. no