Jan. 6 panel is 'aware of' call between White House and rioter

Fresno CA

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The House Jan. 6 committee is "aware of" the call between the White House switchboard and a rioter during the attack on the Capitol, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a committee member, said Sunday on NBC News' "Meet the Press." Denver Riggleman, a former GOP lawmaker who served on the committee’s staff, alleged in a clip of an episode of CBS' "60 Minutes," airing later Sunday, that the switchboard connected to the phone of a rioter on Jan. 6, 2021. Raskin said: “You know, I can’t say anything specific about that particular call, but we are aware of it. And we are aware of lots of contacts between the people in the White House and different people that were involved, obviously, in the coup attempt and the insurrection.” The call is “one of thousands of details that obviously the committee is aware of," he said. “And our job is to put everything into a comprehensive portrait and narrative timeline of what took place."