.MaddowBlog: A handful of White House staffers — including the president’s diarist — might hold the keys to resolving what really happened during those seven-plus hours.
“call detail records,” presumably from Lee’s cell phoneAll told, the January 6 investigators must be frustrated by this 457-minute gap. Not only is it at odds with crumbs of proof, but it is audacious in its scope. My colleague Steve Benen aptly noted the gap isthe missing 18.5 minutes of Nixon’s tapes that his secretary, Rose Mary Woods, claimed she erased accidentally.
That’s why late yesterday, I called a former senior White House official well versed in West Wing operations. And as expected, they essentially told me how to resolve who Trump spoke with between 11:20 a.m. and 6:54 p.m. The diarist depends on the people in closest physical proximity to the president for the information included in each day’s entries. White House staffers who typically contribute to the diary include the president’s personal aide , the president’s personal secretary, staff of the WH Communications Agency or Situation Room if the president speaks with a foreign leader, and/or the head of Oval Office operations.
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