Remember Heidi Fleiss, the so-called “Hollywood Madam? She had a lot of important clients in her Rolodex.
Last night we learned that former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows will not cooperate any further with the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol. But he did leave them with 6,000 pages of documents.
A source familiar with the matter told CNN that among the 6,000 pages of documents Meadows has already provided to the committee are communications from January 6. It is still unclear who communicated that day with Meadows but the source said that “many people had Meadows’ cell phone.”
Democratic Rep. Pete Aguilar of California, who serves on the panel, told CNN that within the documents Meadows turned over is evidence that he was in communication with individuals involved in the planning of the rally on January 6 that preceded the riot.
“What I’ll share is that we continue to learn and we continue to connect the dots,” Aguilar said. “But individuals that were responsible for the planning of January 6 in the rally, Mr. Meadows was in communication with, and those are in the documents … that he turned over himself.”
Aguilar added that some of the records Meadows turned over, including text messages, were from his personal device.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat and member of the committee, said on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper” that the records including “volumes of material, including real time communication as the riot unfolded. Lofgren said the messages were shared “without an assertion of privilege,” and criticized Meadows for then reversing his cooperation.
“The committee wants to ask him about some of that, and it’s really untenable that all of a sudden at the last minute he’s saying no. That somehow there’s some reason why he can’t talk about this,” Lofgren said.
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