Federal investigators examining communications between U.S. lawmakers and Capitol rioters
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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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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