Raskin said it's up to the Jan. 6 committee to 'put everything into a comprehensive portrait and narrative timeline of what took place.'
Meet the PressHe can't"say anything specific about that particular call," Raskin continued, but the panel knows about it and"lots of contacts between the people in the White House and different people that were involved, obviously, in the coup attempt and the insurrection." Raskin said it's up to the Jan. 6 committee to"put everything into a comprehensive portrait and narrative timeline of what took place.
News of the White House switchboard connecting to the phone of a rioter was first revealed by former Republican lawmaker Denver Riggleman during ainterview that aired Sunday night. Riggleman had been a Jan. 6 committee staffer, and toldhe knows about"one end" of the call, and not the"White House end," but didn't say which rioter was on the line.
A spokesperson for the Jan. 6 committee told NBC News Riggleman has"limited knowledge" of the panel's probe, as he left his position in April,"prior to our hearings and much of our most important investigative work. Since his departure, the committee has run down all the leads and digested and analyzed all the information that arose from his work."its first since July.
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