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Anderson Cooper 360

Federal investigators examining communications between U.S. lawmakers and Capitol rioters

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Federal investigators are examining the communications between members of Congress and the pro-Trump mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6. A U.S. official says the investigation is moving closer to exploring whether lawmakers wittingly or unwittingly helped the insurrectionists. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe joins AC360 to discuss the investigation. Plus, Dr. Anthony Fauci says the U.S. shouldn’t loosen coronavirus restrictions until daily new cases fall below 10,000. Errick Simmons is the mayor of Greenville, Mississippi and strongly disagrees with his governor’s decisions to allow businesses to fully open and get rid of the mask mandate. He tells Anderson Cooper we can’t let down our guard.     Airdate: March 4, 2021   Guests: Rep. Jason Crow Mayor Errick Simmons To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening, we begin today with breaking news.

0:03.0

CNN has learned that the investigation into January's attack on the Capitol has uncovered

0:06.8

signs of a contact between lawmakers and January 6 insurrectionists.

0:11.4

Now, the precise nature of that contact is not fully known at this point.

0:15.9

The investigation is ongoing.

0:17.6

The mere possibility of contacts only compounds what was already such deep trauma for the

0:22.5

institution, the people who were there, those who protect them and everyone who watched

0:26.4

the seat of democracy on Earth turned into a battleground.

0:31.6

In addition, this is happening, as you know, with the Capitol still ringed by fencing

0:35.1

and the House in recess due to a potential threat surrounding a date on the QAnon conspiracy

0:39.6

calendar.

0:40.6

Our Shaman Procapac has joined us now with the latest.

0:43.1

So explain what you've learned about what the FBI knows and doesn't know.

0:47.9

Right.

0:48.9

So one of the things that we've learned for certain is that there is information that

0:53.5

the FBI has gathered from cell phone towers here at the Capitol that indicates that members

1:00.0

of Congress were communicating with the rioters.

1:03.7

There are pings off of cell phones that connect with lawmakers, the cell phones belonging to

1:09.8

lawmakers, certainly raising a lot of questions.

1:13.4

The FBI has gathered a lot of information what they did is they went through the cell phone

1:17.6

data to see who was inside the Capitol on the day of the insurrection.

1:22.4

So they were looking at data leading up to the insurrection and what they found was that

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