and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, the january 6th select committee raising the stakes. asking the house minority leader to meet with them. offering up two specific dates for his testimony, and here is their letter tonight to the house minority leader kevin mccarthy. they write, quote, we request we write to request your voluntary cooperation on a range of critical topics, including your conversations with president trump. so, it s about five and a quarter pages here and the committee lays out, in excruciating detail, mccarthy s central role in their investigation. here on page four, the letter notes that the committee has obtained, quote, contemporaneous text messages from multiple witnesses identifying significant concerns following january 6th held by white house staff regarding president trump s state of mind and his ongoing conduct. and the letter says, it appears that mccarthy and trump, during that time, had one or more conversations one of whic
he incited, only to be answered with the following. quote, well, kevin, i guess these people are more upset about the election than you are. that is according to a republican congresswoman, who memorialized the exchange in notes at the time. in its letter to mccarthy, the committee cites the exchange and says it is seeking insight into the former president s state of mind. but another passage in the letter suggests that the panel could also be seeking evidence the former president may have broken the law, by obstructing an official proceeding and they want to know what mccarthy knows about it. quoting now. for example, even after the riotous crowd ultimately dispersed late in the day january 6th, then president trump and his legal team continued to seek, delay, or otherwise impede the electoral count. the select committee wishes to question you regarding communications you may have had with president trump, president trump s legal team, representative jordan, and others at th
Autopsy report. not currently offering any theories about his cause of death. two sources close to the comedian tell cnn 65-year-old saget was found dead in a florida hotel room on sunday. he had covid in december, according to a source. call any link to saget s death quote speculative. a source also says saget seemed healthy, wouldn t have traveled to florida if he actually had felt sick. thanks so much for joining us. ac 360 starts now. good evening. we begin tonight with breaking news that is not only a major step in the january 6th investigation but could also be a clear sign of where the house select committee is taking it. the committee, late today, asking house minority he leader kevin mccarthy to volunteer information about communications he had with the former president and the white house former white house chief of staff mark meadows on and around the day. now, mccarthy as you know could have volumes to say about what the former president was saying and thinking as vio