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Day has been inconsistent at best. two sources tell cnn the house select committee has records showing jordan spoke with the former president for ten minutes on the morning of january 6. now remember that afternoon jordan took to the house floor to object to the certification of biden s electoral college win less than an hour before pro-trump supporters attacked the u.s. capitol. these records were given to the committee after trump lost the bid at the supreme court to keep them out of the committee s hands and reveal a request to get jordan on the phone at the white house residence followed by this ten minute call. jordan was asked about it today and he said he had multiple calls with trump on january 6 but could only confirm he spoke with trump after he left the house floor and did not remember whether they spoke that morning. a lawyer for trump and the spokesman did not respond to the request for comment. do we know what time the ten
Minute call was? not at this point. we know it was in the morning and trump left the white house around 11:00a.m. i don t think we know the time of the call. could be the fall out here? well, jordan has refused a request to voluntarily cooperate with the house committee s investigation and in the letter requesting his cooperation the committee said they wanted to ask him about meetings he had with white house officials and trump in the weeks leading up to the attack. the committee is waiting to decide if they want to issue a subpoena for their colleague. the house rules committee chairman tweeted this cnn reporting directly contradicts jordan s testimony to the rules committee last year and tweeted suggesting it might be time for jordan to speak honestly about what happened. yeah. appreciate it. thank you. i spoke to chairman mcgovern just before air time.
From the same party was this, the republican national committee characterizing the attack on the capitol as legitimate political discourse and punishing two members from serving on the committee investigating january 6. there is this, a cnn exclusive that the committee has evidence casting doubt on another party member s fuzzy account on that day. jim jordan. in spite of the possibility that he could be implicated in to what amounted to an attempted coup. redeeming it somewhat, both the party and the day, mike pence who once called january 6 one day in january. this afternoon while speaking to the federalist society, he broke with the former president. january 6th was a dark day in the history of the united states capitol. lives were lost. many were injured.