3 pro-Trump GOP lawmakers reject Jan. 6 committee's requests for ...

Link CopiedThree House Republicans rejected requests to provide testimony to the Jan. 6 committee after the panel asked them Monday to aid its investigation into the Capitol riot. There’s ample precedent for them to decline: Three other Republican lawmakers previously targeted by the panel for questioning all rejected the requests, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Jan. 6 committee members have expressed hesitancy to subpoena their congressional colleagues.“The Select Committee has learned that several of our colleagues have information relevant to our investigation into the facts, circumstances, and causes of January 6th,” select panel Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said in a statement.The two urged their fellow lawmakers to testify: “We urge our colleagues to join the hundreds of individuals who have shared information with the Select Committee to get to the bottom of what happened on January 6th.“In its letter to Biggs, the committee said multiple House Republican lawmakers sought presidential pardons “for activities taken in connection with President Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.” The committee cited former White House personnel — many of whom have spoken with its investigators in recent weeks — as the basis for that statement. In a statement later Monday, he rejected the panel’s inquiry and said he did not know or have contact with “those who exchanged text messages about me on January 6.”“I will not participate in the illegitimate Committee’s ruthless crusade against President Trump and his allies,” Jackson said.