House Capitol riot committee issues sweeping records requests for communication between Trump and his children, top staffers, and right-wing medi

The select committee probing January 6 is ramping up efforts to nail down Trump's communications.
The committee issued sweeping requests to seven federal agencies including the National Archives.
House investigators want to nail down who Trump talked to and when leading up to January 6.

The House select committee probing the January 6 insurrection is escalating its efforts to put together a picture of former President Donald Trump's communications with key allies and right-wing media personalities in the lead up to the Capitol riot.

The committee, chaired by Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, on Wednesday issued sweeping public records requests to seven executive branch agencies, including the National Archives, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of the Interior, the FBI, the National Counterterrorism Center, and the Office of the Director fo the National Intelligence.

The request to the National Archives firstly requests "documents and communications within the White House on January 6, 2021" related to the riots and the White House's response to them.

Those include all records involving Trump himself, his adult children Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric, his son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter-in-law Lara Trump, his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, former advisor Steve Bannon, and key staffers like chief of staff Mark Meadows, White House counsel Pat Cipollone, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, and advisors Stephen Miller and Hope Hicks.

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