January 6 select committee requests records of Trump White House communications

The House select committee tasked with investigating the deadly January 6 attack on the Capitol has requested records from eight executive branch agencies on Tuesday, demanding a trove of documents including communications from the Trump White House related to the rioting.

The committee's requests shed light on the broad scope of its investigation. Chairman Bennie G. Thompson sent letters to the National Archives and Records Administration and seven other agencies, asking for information on the gathering and dissemination of intelligence before the attack, security preparations around the Capitol, how various agencies responded, the planning of events in Washington that day and how the attack relates to attempts to overturn the results of the election. "Our Constitution provides for a peaceful transfer of power, and this investigation seeks to evaluate threats to that process, identify lessons learned and recommend laws, policies, procedures, rules, or regulations necessary to protect our republic in the future," wrote Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi.