it is, however, a critical investigative tool as the committee pieces together really a roadmap of who was communicating with whom before, during, and after january 6th. as mentioned before, the former president s one-time lawyers and advisers have also been subpoenaed. what is the committee hoping to learn from them? and any sense whether they will comply? i think the chances are slim to none of any four complying, maybe none to none. but the committee is making a record. they are they are saying these are critical witnesses and when you look at these four names, they are all involved in perpetuating the big lie. and at least two of them giuliani and boris were at the willard hotel on january 5th, the night before in that war room. we understand, communicating with then-president trump.
this event and what you want to attract to come be part of it. it s a very fundamental piece of it. it is. chairman of the select committee bennie thompson is telling cnn jim acosta the so-called war room at the willard hotel on january 5th and 6th is part of the investigation, key part. this means any possible calls by then president trump to the command center. i mean, what does that tell you where the investigation is heading right now? it s absolutely clear to me, laura, they are focussing on the krus crucial days, the final week or so leading up to the rally and looking at the nodes of the organization. when you want to understand what an enterprise is up to before an event, you have to look at leadership decisions. you have to see where these key people were gathering, who they were talking to, how they were spending money and how decisions and orders were being made. clearly, the war room is one of those nodes of leadership and organization and that s what the
him. dan skavino, communications director. he was there. the communications strategy of former president and his supporters leading up to the events on january 6th. they want to know was this preplanned? did they know this is coming. . he is also the tweet master. they want to know what his tweets were and what they were designed to do. tweeting away, doing the videos, that kind of thing. steve bannon is back. this is interesting. they are focusing at the willard hotel on january 5th, the day before during an effort to persuade members of congress to block the certification of the election the next day. so, again, what went into the planning here, what was the spent. a really interesting one, patel, pentagon official at the department of defense. they want to know about his involvement regarding planning for security at the capitol january 6th and responding to events that followed the attack.
chief of staff for communications, reporting indicates that you were with the president on january 5th when he and others were considering how to convince members of congress not to certify the election for joe biden. your public twitter account makes it clear that you were tweeting messages from the white house on january 6, 2021, and prior to january 6, 2021, you promoted through your twitter messaging the january 6 march for trump, which encouraged people to be a part of history. you were with or in the vicinity of former president trump on january 6 and are a witness regarding his activities that day. you may also have materials relevant to his videotaping and tweeting messages on january 6. the chairman s letter to kash patel says based on documents obtained by the select committee and published accounts, there is substantial reason to believe that you have additional documents and information relevant to understanding the role played by the department of
the january 6 attack on the capitol. four high level former trump staffers have been ordered to deliver subpoenaed documents and records to the committee by two weeks from tonight on october 7th. two of them have been subpoenaed to appear for depositions a week after that on october 14th, and the other two have been subpoenaed to appear for depositions the next day on october 15th. the committee subpoenaed steve bannon, the former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, dan scavino and former white house trump staffer who was moved to the defense department in the final months of the presidency kash patel. letters were signed by bennie thompson. the letter to steve bannon says the select committee has reason to believe that you have information relevant to understanding important activities that lead to and informed the events at the capitol on january 6. you have been identified as present at the willard hotel on january 5th, 2021 during an