alleged had she saw members of congress, republican members of congress, giving tours at the capitol and she described those tours as recognizance tours. now, she has never provided evidence to back up that claim and republicans have been very critical of her calling them out. and laudermilk is being identified as someone who may have been giving one of those tours. he pushed back on the accusation. he said as a constituent family with young children, meeting with their member of congress in house office buildings is not a suspicious group or, quote, recognizance tour. the family never entered the capitol building. it is a false narrative being pushed. and republicans are now asking for the capitol police to release the video in question here, something that the republicans asked several weeks ago go as well. capitol police say they don t have the authorization do so, but it is clear that the
barr tentatively agrees to give testimony to the january 6th committee, that as the committee is investigate a capitol tour a republican congressman gave the day before the deadly insurrection, they believe this could be significant, telling, laudermilk was one of the house republicans that voted to overturn the election on january 26th, so tell me about mr. laudermill, what do we know about this tour. reporter: at the very least, suspicious, and want to know who laudermilt was giving entrance on the complex day before the insurrection, this comes as mikey sheryl of new jersey in the days before january 6th mentioned in a town hall, republican members were giving what they called reconnaissance tours, she never gave evidence or named named so this is the first time we had a congressman associated with any type of tour
and the fact that congressman loudermilk is building a strawman of video evidence or capitol police video evidence, and then knocking it down is irrelevant. the evidence could be witness testimony. it could be anything. and he has no idea what the evidence is. it s not necessarily video evidence. or maybe it s both. and so, when people start doing that, they are in a prosecutor s view, incriminating themselves even further. well, dan, i mean, what s interesting is that, as you say, i am not a lawyer, and i learned of this story on live tv, so if i poked holes in it, it can t be his legal strategy. it s clearly his political strategy. and i wonder if you think that this guy who i never heard of before today, loudermilk, could sort of be a straw breaking the camel s back of republican solidarity. i mean, there are five members who are facing enforceable subpoenas from the january 6th select committee. do you think any one of them is having a conversation with their lawyers going, we do
incited this violent crowd. those members of congress that attempted to help our president undermine our democracy and i ll make sure they are held accountable and if necessary make sure that they don t serve in congress. those accusations at the time ignited a firestorm, demands from the right from congresswoman sherrill and an ethics complaint from none other from laudermilk himself who claims the allegations were false and the republicans on the committee of which, yes, laudermilk is a member claimed reviewed security footage that they said proved there were no such tours in the days before the attack. today s letter, the select committee review of evidence directly contradicts that denial. that bombshell comes as wooe learning from axios in the last hour. donald trump s former a.g. bill barr is in talks to cooperate with the committee and to sit for a formal transcribed
because of the operation 5 formula in the next week as well. brian deese, thank you for being on. more on the breaking january 6th news. the select committee asking for info from a member of congress, georgia republican barry lattermilk. this goes back a period of time right before the insurrection happened. i think tours were not aloud allowed at that point in time and groups had gotten access to the hallways and council member laudermilk said republicans didn t do that and pointed the finger at democrats and now the select committee said we have reason to believe that you yourself gave a tour the night before. yeah. that about sums it up, hallie.