why didn t you go to the committee to talk about this now? joining us now is california congressman, a member of the january six committee zoe lofgren. congresswoman lofgren, it s a pleasure to have you with us tonight. thanks for being here. sure, good to be here, rachel. let me just give you a chance to correct me if i explained any of that wrongly. that s how i understand it. we ve been following this for more than a year now. did i get any of that the wrong way around? no, i think you ve got it right. rodney davis is the ranking member of the house administration committee that i chair. he and mr. loudermilk also serve on the house administration committee and and demanded the release of footage and claimed that they had seen all of the videos. and there was nothing there, no one with a maga hat. when we found the videos of mr.
the white house and trump allies, for ways to overturn the election and prevent joe biden from becoming president. of course, we previously reported that ginni thomas had been emailing within white house chief of staff mark meadows and with some other key figures. daniel, tonight our friend joyce vance quoted that white house lawyer, who suggested eastman get a criminal lawyer. and she tweeted this run, don t walk, to the justice department, folks. the best deals go to the early cooperators. who else need that legal advice? well, very loudermilk might need legal advice. there are a number of people who are going to be in the crosshairs of the department of justice. the ones was ginni thomas one of them? certainly. i think, if she was involved in this eastman plot to coerce mike pence to overturn the
that is not the only group that i saw. i saw groups down there and i think what we have asked the january six committee to do is to understand what those people were doing in the capitol complex. not the only group and let s remind our audience, when loudermilk was confronted with this months ago, weeks ago, he said he didn t lead any tours and that mikie sherrill should be investigated. how significant is all this? it just continues to show two things. one is the significant involvement of republican congressman, not only in the effort to overturn the election, but clearly, in the lead up, in some fashion or the other to january 6th. and it begs the question, what did they know is going to happen on january 6th? when you see someone taking those very unusual photos or videos of rain in places that are not tourist attractions in
run, don t walk, to the justice department, folks. the best deals go to the early cooperators. who else need that legal advice? well, very loudermilk might need legal advice. there are a number of people who are going to be in the crosshairs of the department of justice. the ones was ginni thomas one of them? certainly. i think, if she was involved in this eastman plot to coerce mike pence to overturn the election, through illegitimate means, it s probably worthy of doing an investigation. you would want to know i don t think we are at the point where anybody would charge ginni thomas with a crime yet. but she was clearly central to the effort to overturn the election. and then the question becomes, who else was she speaking to? what was she actually doing? we know she was speaking with
today, the committee sent the georgia lawmaker another letter, asking him to come answer some questions about that tour. the panel also released security footage that appears to show loudermilk, again, himself hosting the tour, as people are taking pictures of stairwell, security checkpoints, and even the capital capitol tunnel system not what you would call a usual tourist attraction. the committee says one man seen taking pictures is the very same guy heard making threats from behind the camera on january 6th. here s our fearless leader. hey [inaudible] check out my flag i made, guys. see it? there you go, baby. it s for a certain person. yes, that s right, for somebody special, somebody special. there s no escape, pelosi,