The January 6th Committee demanding that Kevin McCarthy talks, the lead starts right now.

A significant step with new subpoenas issued for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

and four other House Republicans, how this could test congressional authority well beyond

this investigation, I'll speak to a member of the January 6th Committee coming up.

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This is CNN Breaking News.

Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper. We start with breaking news and our politics lead in a brand new

subpoena for the House Republican leader, issued by his colleagues investigating the deadly

Capitol riot. This afternoon, the bipartisan January 6th House Select Committee took the

extraordinary step of issuing subpoenas not only for Kevin McCarthy, but to four other Republican

lawmakers, Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Andy Biggs of Arizona,

and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, all five previously rejected the committee's invitations to

voluntarily testify. So what information might these men be able to provide the committee?

Well, in their original request, the panel told McCarthy they wanted to know more about his

conversations with then President Trump and others at the White House in the week after the

attack on the Capitol. White House call record show Jim Jordan spoke to Trump on the morning of

January 6th, but the committee also wants to know about Jordan's talks with Trump allies,

who were stationed in a so-called war room at the Willard Hotel in the days before the riot.

Mo Brooks caught the committee's attention after he revealed that Trump had repeatedly asked

him to work to rescind the 2020 election and somehow magically remove Joe Biden from office.

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