United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack

The U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol is a select committee of the United States House of Representatives formed through a largely party-line vote, on July 1, 2021, to investigate the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6 that year.[1] The attack was a culmination of the attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election. The membership of the committee was a point of significant political contention, with House Republicans boycotting the committee. The investigation commenced with public hearings on July 27, when four police officers testified. By the end of November 2021, the Committee had interviewed over 250 people.[2]

This article is about the House committee. For the failed proposal, see January 6 commission.

Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol
Select committee
Active

United States House of Representatives
117th Congress
History
FormedJuly 1, 2021
Leadership
ChairBennie Thompson (D)
Since July 1, 2021
Vice chairLiz Cheney (R)
Since September 2, 2021
Structure
Seats13
Political partiesMajority (7)
  •   Democratic (7)
Minority (2)
Jurisdiction
PurposeTo investigate the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021
Senate counterpartNone
Website
january6th.house.gov

    History
    Logo of the committee

    In the aftermath of the 2021 United States Capitol attack, the proposal to form a bicameral commission failed due to a filibuster from Republicans in the Senate.[3] In late May, when it had become apparent that the filibuster would not be overcome, Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated that she would appoint a select committee to investigate the events as a fallback option.[4][5][6][7][1]

    2021 United States
    Capitol attack
    Protesters gathered outside the Capitol on January 6, 2021
    Timeline of events
    Background
    2020 presidential election
    and other causes
    Related groups and persons
    Participants
    List
    Law enforcement response
    Aftermath
    Biden inauguration
    Investigations and charges
    Corporate actions
    Reactions
    Impeachment

    On June 30, 2021, the resolution to form the committee passed by a vote of 222 to 190, with all Democratic members and two Republican members, Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, voting in favor. Sixteen Republican members did not vote.[8] The resolution empowers Pelosi to appoint eight members to the committee, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy can appoint five members "in consultation" with Pelosi.[9] Pelosi indicated that she would name a Republican as one of her eight appointees.[10]

    On July 1, Pelosi appointed eight members, seven Democrats and one Republican, Liz Cheney (R-WY); Bennie Thompson (D-MS) would serve as committee chair.[11] On July 19, McCarthy announced the five members he would recommend as the Minority on the Select Committee. He recommended that Jim Banks (R-IN) serve as Ranking Member, and minority members be Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rodney Davis (R-IL), Kelly Armstrong (R-ND), and Troy Nehls (R-TX).[12] Banks, Jordan, and Nehls voted to overturn the Electoral College results in Arizona and Pennsylvania. Banks and Jordan had also signed onto the Supreme Court case Texas v. Pennsylvania to invalidate the ballots of voters in four states.[13]

    On July 21, Thompson told The Guardian in an interview that he would investigate Trump as part of the inquiry into Capitol attack.[14] Hours later, Pelosi said in a statement that she had informed McCarthy that she would reject the recommendations of Jordan and Banks, citing concerns for the investigation's integrity and relevant actions and statements made by the two members. She approved the recommendations of the other three.[15] McCarthy then pulled all of his picks for the committee and stated that he would not appoint anyone on the committee unless all of the five were approved.[16][17]

    After McCarthy rescinded his recommendations, Pelosi appointed Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) to the committee.[18] Kinzinger was one of the ten House Republicans who voted for Trump's second impeachment.[19] Pelosi was also considering to hire a Republican as an outside committee staffer or advisor, such as former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA), who met with Cheney and Pelosi. Cheney voiced her support and pushed for both of their involvement.[19] On July 25, Speaker Pelosi officially announced the appointment of Rep. Kinzinger to the Select Committee.[20]

    Members, 117th congress
    Majority Minority

    In a press release, Thompson announced the senior staff for the committee. This included:[22]

    Denver Riggleman, a former U.S. House representative, and Joe Maher, a principal deputy general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security, were hired as staffers on August 6.[23] On August 12, Timothy J. Heaphy was appointed as the committee's chief investigative counsel.[24]

    Timeline of proceedings

    2021
    • July 27: The committee holds its first public testimony, and hears from four police officers who were in the front line as rioters attacked the Capitol. The whole committee prepped the day before. Thompson and Cheney give opening statements.[25][26]
      • Daniel Hodges, a Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia officer, said he was crushed in a doorway between rioters and a police line. A man has pled not guilty to assaulting him and grabbing his gear.[27][28][29]
      • Michael Fanone, a Metropolitan Police Department officer, said rioters pulled him into the crowd, beat him with a flagpole, stole his badge, repeatedly tased him with his taser and went for his gun.[27][30][31] He supported the creation of the January 6 commission and criticized those who downplayed the attack.[27][29]
      • Harry Dunn, a private first class of the U.S. Capitol Police, spoke about the racial abuse he and other officers experienced during the attack.[27][29]
      • Aquilino Gonell, a U.S. Capitol Police sergeant, said he was beaten with a flagpole and chemically sprayed.[27][29]
    • August 23: CNN reports committee investigators would seek phone records of several people, including members of Congress.[32] The Committee also sought records of at least thirty members of Trump's inner circle from seven government agencies and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which preserves White House communication records.[33][34]
    • August 27: The Committee demands records from 15 social media companies going back to the spring of 2020.[35]
    • September 1: The Guardian reports that the Committee seeks to identify any White House involvement in planning the Capitol attack and whether Trump had advance knowledge of the riot.[36]
    • September 13: The Guardian reports that White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is also included in the records preservation requests, in addition to Republican members of Congress.[37]
    • September 22: The Guardian reports that the Committee is considering issuing subpoenas for call records or testimony of senior Trump administration officials including Meadows, Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino and former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale.[38]
    • September 23: The Committee issues subpoenas to Meadows, Scavino, chief strategist Steve Bannon, and Pentagon official and former Devin Nunes aide Kash Patel.[39] Documents are demanded by October 7.[40] Bannon and Patel are instructed to testify before the committee on October 14, and Meadows and Scavino on October 15.[41][42] Meadows is granted a postponement and rescheduled for November 12.[43]
    • September 29: Amy Kremer and ten others affiliated with her organization Women for America First, which held the permit for the Stop the Steal rally that preceded the Capitol attack, are subpoenaed by the Committee.[44] Among these eleven people is Katrina Pierson, national spokesperson for Trump's 2016 campaign.
    • October 6: The Guardian reports that Trump and his attorneys were instructing the four Trump aides subpoenaed on September 23 to defy the orders and not comply with both the requests for documents and testimony.[45]
    • October 7: Politico and Bloomberg report that an attorney for Trump formally instructed the four aides to defy the orders and to provide neither documents nor testimony.[46][47] Later that day, as the Committee issues further subpoenas to Stop the Steal LLC, Stop the Steal campaign organizer Ali Alexander, and fellow rally organizer Nathan Martin,[48][49] Trump announces that he would assert executive privilege to withhold the documents the Committee had requested in August.[50]
    • October 8:
      • White House press secretary Jen Psaki says Biden would not honor Trump's request to assert executive privilege to stop NARA from providing these documents.[51][52][53] Nevertheless, Trump writes NARA asserting privilege over about forty documents.[51] The same day, White House counsel Dana Remus advises NARA archivist David Ferriero that the challenged documents were to be released following a 30-day courtesy warning to Trump.[54][55]
      • A lawyer for Bannon says in a letter to the Committee that Bannon would not comply with the subpoena for his testimony, because Trump had asserted executive privilege and instructed him to defy the subpoena.[56]
    • October 13: The Committee subpoenaes Jeffrey Clark and schedules him to provide documents and testimony later in the month. As assistant attorney general, Clark angled for a promotion to attorney general by promising Trump he would help overturn the election results. Former acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, who resisted Clark's efforts to interfere with the election outcome, is interviewed by the Committee.[57][58]
    • October 14: After Bannon does not appear for his scheduled deposition, the Committee says it would initiate proceedings to hold Bannon in criminal contempt.[59] The Committee also announces that Patel and Meadows were "engaging" with their investigation, and postpones both their depositions scheduled for October 14 and 15 respectively.[60] Scavino, meanwhile, also has his October 15 deposition postponed because the Committee was unable to locate him,[61] and he did not formally receive the subpoena until October 8.[62][63][60]
    • October 18: Trump sues to prevent NARA from turning over the records to the Committee at all, or at least to allow him "to conduct a full privilege review of all of the requested materials" so he could choose which records NARA would provide. His lawsuit complains that the records request was "illegal, unfounded, and overbroad" and amounted to a "fishing expedition." The lawsuit is submitted on Trump's behalf by attorney Jesse R. Binnall.[64][65] Meanwhile, NARA plannes to release the documents on November 12, so any temporary court order to block the release would need to be issued before then.[66]
    • October 19: The Committee votes unanimously to adopt a contempt of Congress report against Bannon and refer it to the full House for a vote.[67]
    • October 21: All 220 House Democrats and 9 House Republicans vote in favor of the resolution to hold Bannon in contempt of Congress, a majority that refers Bannon's case to the Justice Department. The Justice Department is deciding whether to prosecute Bannon.[68] A conviction could take years, according to Stanley Brand, former general counsel to the House of Representatives.[69]
    • October 22: CNN reports that Cheney and Kinzinger have interviewed former Trump director of strategic communications Alyssa Farah. She had resigned in December 2020 and told CNN after the January 6 attack that Trump had lied to the American people about the election results.[70]
    • October 25: Biden once again says he would not assert executive privilege; this regarded a second batch of documents the Committee had requested from NARA.[71]
    • October 26: The Washington Post reports that more people are expected to be subpoenaed, including legal scholar John Eastman who supported Trump's claims about the 2020 election.[72][73]
    • October 29: Jeffrey Clark, having parted ways with his attorney several days previously, does not appear for his scheduled deposition.[74]
    • October 30: In a court filing, NARA details what Trump demanded be withheld from the Committee. Trump sought to block about 750 pages of documents among the nearly 1,600 requested by the Committee. These included hundreds of pages of statements and talking points made by Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, as well as daily presidential diaries, schedules, appointment information and White House visitor, activity, and phone logs from on and around January 6. Trump also sought to block drafts of speeches, remarks, and correspondence relating to the Capitol attack, as well as handwritten notes made by chief of staff Mark Meadows.[75]
    • November 5: Jeffrey Clark and his new attorney meet with investigators to state Clark would not cooperate unless compelled by a court order, asserting that Trump's "confidences are not his to waive," citing attorney-client privilege. In a letter to the Committee, Clark's attorney cites a letter from a Trump attorney specifically stating Trump would not try to block Clark's testimony.[74][76][77]
    • November 9: Federal judge Tanya Chutkan denies Trump's October 18 request to stop NARA from releasing documents. Trump's claim "that he may override the express will of the executive branch," she wrote in a 39-page ruling, "appears to be premised on the notion that his executive power 'exists in perpetuity'. But Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President."[82][83] (The previous evening, Trump had filed an emergency request for a preemptive injunction against Chutkan's forthcoming decision, but Chutkan rejected it two hours later as legally defective and premature.)[84][85] Trump immediately asks Chutkan for an injunction, which she denies.[86][87] However, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals grants Trump's request for an injunction on November 11 and schedules oral arguments before a three-judge panel for November 30.[88]
    • November 12: Meadows does not appear for his testimony as scheduled.[43] Bannon is federally indicted on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress the same day[89] and surrenders to the FBI on November 15.[90]
    • November 22: Subpoenas are issued for InfoWars host Alex Jones and longtime Republican operative Roger Stone, as well as two Stop the Steal organizers, Dustin Stockton and Jennifer Lawrence, and Trump spokesman and Save America PAC communications director Taylor Budowich.[91][92] Warrants for Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, and their respective leaders Enrique Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes, are issued the following day. Robert Patrick Lewis, chairman of 1st Amendment Praetorian, a group alleged to have provided security at several rallies before January 6, is also subpoenaed that day.[93]
    • November 24: In advance of the hearing scheduled for November 30 regarding the release of NARA records, Trump's attorneys submit a reply brief. They claim that Biden's willingness to release the records served his "own political advantage" and "will result in permanent damage to the institution of the presidency."[94]
    • November 30: As scheduled, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals heard Trump's argument. Trump's lawyers ask the judges to review each document and decide separately whether to release each one to Congress. The three judges deny this request. Judge Patricia Millett points out that the dispute, in her analysis, has not been "about the content of the documents" but rather "what happens when the current incumbent president says I'm not going to invoke executive privilege" to stop NARA from providing material to Congress. Millett indicates that, were the court to rule against Trump, it might nevertheless choose to delay the release of the documents for another two weeks to allow him to appeal to the Supreme Court.[95]
    • December 1:
      • The Committee votes unanimously to hold Jeffrey Clark in contempt of Congress. However, he is also given a new deposition date of December 4. This is because Clark has said that he plans to invoke the Fifth Amendment, which protects people from being forced to self-incriminate.[96] Due to Clark's report of a "medical condition," the deposition is rescheduled for December 16.[97] If Clark does not testify and does not properly invoke the Fifth Amendment, the full House may vote on whether to hold him in contempt.
      • A 36-page memorandum by Colonel Earl G. Matthews is sent to the Committee contesting the findings of the DoD Inspector General report on the response to the riot. The memorandum accuses two principal sources of the report of perjury in an attempted coverup of acting Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy's inaction during the riot.[98]
    • December 7: In a letter from his attorney, Mark Meadows says he would cease cooperating. By then, Meadows has already provided 2,300 text messages, including his text messages from January 6 in which he informed others what Trump was doing during the riot, and some 6,800 pages of emails.[99][100] Among the documents was a January 5 38-page PowerPoint presentation entitled "Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN" to be provided "on the hill;" a November 6 text exchange with a member of Congress in which Meadows reportedly said "I love it" in a discussion about the possibility of appointing alternate electors in certain states; and a November 7 email discussing the appointment of alternate slates of electors as part of a "direct and collateral attack" after the election.[101][102][103] Meadows objects to news that the Committee has subpoenaed telecom carriers for the call and text metadata of more than 100 people, including Meadows and others in Trump's inner circle.[104] As the Committee prepares to hold Meadows in contempt of Congress, he sues Nancy Pelosi, the Committee and its members to block his subpoena as well as the subpoena issued to Verizon for his phone records.[105][106] NARA says it is working with Meadows' lawyers to obtain any additional documents that Meadows might not have provided.[100]
    • December 9: Three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rules to reject Trump's appeal to have his White House records withheld from the Committee. NARA must continue to withhold the records for another 14 days, however, to allow Trump sufficient time to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.[107]
    • December 10: The New York Times reported that Meadows's attorney said the Powerpoint presentation his client provided to the Committee came to his email inbox, but Meadows did not act on it. The Washington Post reported the next day that the presentation, which detailed an elaborate theory that China and Venezuela had taken control of voting machines, had been distributed by Phil Waldron, a retired Army colonel who specialized in psychological operations during his career. Waldron said he had spoken to Meadows "maybe eight to 10 times" and had attended a November 25 Oval Office meeting with Trump and others, and that he also had briefed several members of Congress on the presentation. The presentation recommended that Trump declare a national security emergency to delay the January 6 certification of electors, reject all ballots cast by machine, and have paper ballots secured by U.S. marshals and National Guard troops to conduct a recount.[108][109] Waldron was a Trump campaign associate who made false assertions of election fraud as an expert witness during hearings alongside Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani in Arizona, Georgia, and Michigan.[110]
    • December 12: The Committee released a report revealing that Meadows had sent an email on January 5 promising that the National Guard would “protect pro Trump people”.[111] The report also included what the Committee said were an email and text messages to members of Congress discussing how Trump might persuade legislators of some states to change their certified elector slates from Biden to Trump, writing Trump "thinks the legislators have the power, but the VP has power too." Meadows asked the members how Trump could contact such legislators, which the president did via a conference call with 300 of them on January 2, providing them purported evidence of fraud they might use to decertify their election results. Three days later, dozens of legislators from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin wrote Pence asking him to postpone the January 6 certification of electors for ten days "affording our respective bodies to meet, investigate, and as a body vote on certification or decertification of the election."[112][113]
    • December 13: Before the Committee voted unanimously to recommend a contempt of Congress charge against Meadows to the full House, Cheney read a selection of text messages Meadows received on and around January 6. Two Fox News allies of Trump texted that the Capitol attack was destroying the president's legacy. Donald Trump Jr. told Meadows that the president needed to make an Oval Office address because "He has to lead now. It has gone too far and gotten out of hand." One unnamed lawmaker texted in part that Pence "should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all." On January 7, an unnamed lawmaker texted, "Yesterday was a terrible day. We tried everything we could in our objections to the 6 states. I’m sorry nothing worked."[114]

    Subpoenas

    By the end of November 2021, the Committee had interviewed over 250 people.[2] One of CNN's sources said that "many people every week" and sometimes "multiple people a day" are testifying.[99] Some testify voluntarily. When someone does not wish to testify or provide documents, the Committee may issue subpoenas to legally compel the person to appear. As of December 10, 2021, it had subpoenaed at least 51 people[115] (scheduling them to testify on various dates[116]) plus the phone records of over 100 people.[117] The Committee may have issued additional subpoenas that it has not revealed publicly.[99]

    Subpoenas
    Name Role Subpoenaed Deposition Outcome
    Mark Meadows former White House chief of staff September 23 November 12 did not appear;[43] later cooperated, then stopped[118][102]
    Daniel Scavino former White House deputy chief of staff for communications September 23 postponed[119]
    Kashyap Patel former Defense Department official September 23 postponed[120] did not appear[121]
    Stephen Bannon former Trump adviser September 23 October 14 did not appear; indicted[89]
    Amy Kremer founder and chair of Women For America First September 29 October 29[122]
    Kylie Kremer founder and executive director of Women For America First September 29 October 29[122]
    Cynthia Chafian submitted the first permit application on behalf of WFAF for the January 6 rally, and founder of the Eighty Percent Coalition September 29 October 28[116]
    Caroline Wren "VIP Advisor" for January 6, per rally permit September 29 October 26[116]
    Maggie Mulvaney "VIP Lead" for January 6, per rally permit September 29 October 26[116]
    Justin Caporale Event Strategies, Inc.; "Project Manager" for January 6, per rally permit September 29 October 25[116]
    Tim Unes Event Strategies, Inc.; "Stage Manager" for January 6, per rally permit September 29 October 25[116]
    Megan Powers MPowers Consulting LLC; "Operations Manager for Scheduling and Guidance" for January 6, per rally permit September 29 October 21[116]
    Hannah Salem Stone logistics for rally September 29 October 22[116]
    Lyndon Brentnall “on-site supervisor” for the rally; owner of a security company September 29 October 22[116]
    Katrina Pierson national spokesperson for the 2016 Trump campaign September 29 November 3[116]
    Ali Alexander connected to "Stop the Steal" rally permit October 7 October 29[116]
    Nathan Martin connected to "Stop the Steal" rally permit October 7 October 28[116]
    Stop the Steal, LLC organization; George B. Coleman, "custodian of records," will be deposed October 7 unknown[123]
    Jeffrey Clark former DOJ official October 13 October 29[116] appeared November 5; did not testify[124]
    William Stepien Trump 2020 campaign manager November 8 December 13[116]
    Jason Miller Trump campaign senior advisor November 8 December 10[116]
    John Eastman conservative lawyer and former professor November 8 December 8[116] refused to testify, invoking Fifth Amendment[125]
    Michael Flynn former Trump national security advisor November 8 postponed[126][116]
    Angela McCallum Trump campaign executive assistant November 8 November 30[116]
    Bernard Kerik present at the meetings at the Willard Hotel November 8 December 3[116]
    Nicholas Luna personal assistant to Trump November 9 postponed[126][116]
    Molly Michael Oval Office operations coordinator November 9 December 2[116]
    Ben Williamson senior advisor to chief of staff Mark Meadows November 9 December 2[116]
    Christopher Liddell deputy chief of staff November 9 November 30[116]
    John McEntee White House personnel director November 9 December 15[116]
    Keith Kellogg national security adviser to Pence November 9 December 1[116]
    Kayleigh McEnany former White House Press Secretary November 9 December 3[116]
    Stephen Miller senior advisor for policy November 9 December 14[116]
    Cassidy Hutchinson special assistant for legislative affairs November 9 December 1[116]
    Kenneth Klukowski senior counsel to assistant attorney general Jeffrey Clark November 9 December 1[116]
    Alex Jones InfoWars host November 22 December 18[91]
    Roger Stone Republican operative November 22 December 17[91]
    Duston Stockton Stop the Steal organizer November 22 December 14[92]
    Jennifer Lawrence Stop the Steal organizer November 22 December 15[92]
    Taylor Budowich Trump spokesman; communications director of Save America PAC November 22 December 16[92]
    Oath Keepers Militia organization November 23[93]
    Proud Boys Far right organization November 23[93]
    Stewart Rhodes Oath Keepers leader November 23 December 14[93]
    Enrique Tarrio Proud Boys leader November 23 December 15[93]
    Robert Patrick Lewis 1st Amendment Praetorian[127] November 23 December 16[93]
    Telecom carriers Call detail records for over 100 people summer/fall 2021[104] n/a n/a
    Max Miller Former Trump aide December 10 early January 2022[128][129]
    Robert Peede Jr. Former Trump deputy assistant December 10 early January 2022[128][129]
    Brian Jack Former Trump director of political affairs December 10 early January 2022[128][129]
    Bryan Lewis Trump aide who helped plan rally December 10 early January 2022[128][129]
    Ed Martin Trump ally who helped plan rally December 10 early January 2022[128][129]
    Kimberly Fletcher Ties to "Moms for America," helped plan rallies December 10 early January 2022[128][129]

    Reactions

    Prior to committee formation

    According to several reports, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had warned Republican members that if they allowed Speaker Nancy Pelosi to appoint them to the select committee, they would be stripped of all their other committee assignments and should not expect to receive any future ones from Pelosi. In an interview with Forbes, Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said "Who gives a shit" He added, "When you've got people who say crazy stuff and you're not gonna make that threat, but you make that threat to truth-tellers, you've lost any credibility."[130]

    House Leader McCarthy called the rejection of his initial recommendations "unprecedented" in a phone call with Pelosi. In a press conference, he labelled her a "lame duck speaker" out to destroy the institution. The Freedom Caucus pushed for McCarthy to file a motion to vacate the speakership, and punish Cheney and Kinzinger for accepting their appointments to the committee.[131][132] McCarthy later dubbed them "Pelosi Republicans."[25][26] Republicans also stated that if they won the House majority in the 2022 midterm elections, they would come after Democratic committee assignments, targeting Eric Swalwell and Ilhan Omar.[132] Steve Scalise stated that Pelosi had removed any credibility from the committee for rejecting their recommended members and opted instead a political narrative.[132] Republicans Scott Perry, Chip Roy, and Kelly Armstrong expressed their disdain for both Cheney and Kinzinger and questioned their loyalty to the House Republican Conference, pushing for them to be stripped of their committee assignments.[131][25] Jim Banks and Mike Rogers stated that the two GOP committee members would be stuck to Pelosi's narrative of events.[25] Cheney and Kinzinger both dismissed comments from their colleagues.[25]

    After Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's picks for the committee, The Wall Street Journal editorial board criticized Pelosi's rejection of McCarthy's picks. It acknowledged that McCarthy's picks were partisan, but claimed that Adam Schiff, who was appointed by Pelosi, had "lied repeatedly about the evidence concerning the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia." The editorial board posited, "if Mrs. Pelosi thinks the evidence for her conclusion is persuasive, why would she not want to have it tested against the most aggressive critics?"[133]

    After committee formation

    In late August 2021, after the committee asked telecommunications and social media companies to retain certain records, McCarthy declared that if the companies "turn over private information" to the House committee, then the companies are "in violation of federal law and subject to losing their ability to operate in the United States", and that a future Republican legislative majority will hold the companies "fully accountable".[134] In response to McCarthy's comment, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint on September 3 with the chief counsel of the Office of Congressional Ethics. CREW noted that the subpoena was legally valid and claimed that McCarthy was illegally obstructing the investigation insofar as he was “threatening retaliation" against the telecommunications companies.[135] Eleven House Republicans who were associated with the January 6 "Stop the Steal" rally sent a September 3 letter to thirteen telecommunications companies stating they "do not consent to the release of confidential call records or data" and threatening legal action against what they asserted were unconstitutional subpoenas.[136][137][138][139]

    During a September 2 television interview, McCarthy was asked about "how deeply [Trump] was involved," to which he replied that the FBI and Senate committees had found "no involvement."[140] He and other Republicans had cited an exclusive Reuters report that unnamed current and former law enforcement officials said the FBI had found "scant evidence" of an organized plot to overturn the election. In a September 4 statement, Thompson and Cheney said the committee had queried executive branch agencies and congressional committees investigating the matter and "it's been made clear to us that reports of such a conclusion are baseless."[141][142]

    On October 16, The Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson criticized the committee's glacial progress, stating that "I don't believe that they're pursuing this with the degree of vigor that merits the type of targets they're talking about. We're dealing with people like Steve Bannon and Roger Stone and Ali Alexander [....] They've had three months, they've done almost nothing."[143]

    Polling

    According to a poll conducted in July 2021 by Politico, a majority of Americans support the January 6 investigation, with 58% overall supporting and 29% opposing; however, 52% of Republicans polled opposed it.[144] In an August 2021 Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll, 58% of American voters said they thought the Committee was biased, while 42% thought it was fair.[145] In September 2021, a Pew Research poll found that only 11% of American adults said they were very confident the Committee would be fair and reasonable while another 34% were somewhat confident, while a 54% majority said they were not too confident (32%) or not at all confident (22%). Confidence was highly partisan: Nearly two-thirds of Democrats and less than a quarter of Republicans said they were at least somewhat confident.[146]

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