Jan. 6 committee asks 3 more GOP lawmakers to voluntarily cooperate

The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol on Monday asked three more Republican lawmakers to voluntarily cooperate.

The panel asked Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama, Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas and Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona to come forward to answer questions.

“As we work to provide answers to the American people about that day, we consider it a patriotic duty for all witnesses to cooperate,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said in a statement.

The committee said it wants information from the three staunch supporters of former President Donald Trump because they “participated in meetings at the White House and had direct conversations with President Trump leading up to and during the attack on the Capitol.”

There was no immediate reaction from any of the lawmakers.

“We urge our colleagues to join the hundreds of individuals who have shared information with the Select Committee,” Thompson and Cheney wrote.

Brooks, who delivered a fiery speech alongside Trump on Jan. 6, recently fell out with the ex-president after Trump withdrew his endorsement of Brooks in a hard-fought Alabama GOP Senate primary.

Several other GOP lawmakers have snubbed previous requests to voluntarily cooperate, including House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who had a stormy conversation with Trump as the violent mob rampaged through the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Last week, the committee announced that it is in the closing stages of its probe.

The committee has interviewed hundreds of witnesses and examined thousands of documents, including damning text messages showing Trump’s allies pleading with former chief of staff Mark Meadows to convince Trump to do something to stop the violence.

Donald Trump Jr. has reportedly agreed to testify to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6. attack on the Capitol, and is the latest high-profile Trump insider to talk.

The eldest son of the twice-impeached former president is expected to appear before the panel within days, ABC News first reported, and the latest in a series of sit-down interviews the committee has conducted with those in Trump’s inner circle in the past few weeks.

He would be following in the footsteps of his sister Ivanka, brother-in-law Jared Kushner and fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle.

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