{"id":1535482,"date":"2022-07-01T14:04:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T18:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1535482"},"modified":"2022-07-01T15:29:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T19:29:39","slug":"exclusive-jim-banks-demands-white-house-surveillance-logs-to-vet-contested-j6-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-jim-banks-demands-white-house-surveillance-logs-to-vet-contested-j6-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Jim Banks Demands White House Surveillance Logs To Vet Contested J6 Testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-jim-banks-demands-white-house-surveillance-logs-to-vet-contested-j6-testimony%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1535482&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Cassidy-Hutchinson.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Indiana Republican Congressman Jim Banks is demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) disclose White House surveillance records to lawmakers in their investigation of blockbuster claims by the Jan. 6 Committee\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/30\/the-media-should-save-the-star-witness-label-for-people-who-actually-witnessed-things\/\">latest star witness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, a top aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Cassidy Hutchinson, offered sensational revelations in public testimony before the nine-member House panel depicting a president in rage as supporters ransacked congressional chambers. At one point, Hutchinson said President Donald Trump assaulted a Secret Service agent and attempted to hijack the presidential limousine with plans to drive himself to the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president said something to the effect of, \u2018I\u2019m the f\u2019ing president, take me up to the Capitol now,&#8217;\u201d Hutchinson told lawmakers, citing a conversation with then-White House Deputy Chief of Staff Tony Ornato in the absence of a firsthand account.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, Hutchinson\u2019s sources <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/29\/new-j6-narrative-about-trump-and-secret-service-collapses-hours-after-tuesday-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disputed<\/a> the graphic events in question and told news outlets they were prepared to offer on-the-record denials under oath. Days after a centerpiece of Hutchinson\u2019s uncorroborated testimony fell apart, more claims are beginning to fail the credibility test under closer scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump was intent on going to the Capitol, Hutchinson said, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone allegedly pressured aides to make sure the president remained far from the complex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand, Ms. Hutchinson, that you also spoke to Mr. Cipollone on the morning of the 6th, as you were about to go to the rally on the Ellipse,\u201d said Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who led Tuesday\u2019s questioning. \u201cMr. Cipollone said something to you like, \u2018make sure the movement to the Capitol does not happen.\u2019 Is that correct?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hutchinson nodded.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>That\u2019s correct. I saw Mr. Cipollone right before I walked out onto West Exec that morning, and Mr. Cipollone said something to the effect of \u2018please make sure we don\u2019t go up to the Capitol, Cassidy. Keep in touch with me. We\u2019re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to multiple sources with direct knowledge of White House staffing on Jan. 6, however, Cipollone was not at the White House that morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery Trump White House senior staff member knows that Cipollone was not at the White House that morning so that conversation could not have taken place,\u201d one source who spoke on the condition of anonymity told The Federalist. \u201cIn Cipollone\u2019s absence, Pat Philbin was filling in for Pat [Cipollone] that morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides the fact that Pat [Cipollone] wasn\u2019t there,\u201d they added, \u201cHe simply doesn\u2019t speak like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To independently investigate Hutchinson\u2019s claims, Banks sent a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas requesting to \u201creview White House gate logs, surveillance video, and all other records that could indicate which of these senior staff were present at the White House during the times referenced in Ms. Hutchinson\u2019s attached testimony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Indiana congressman spearheading House Republicans\u2019 own probe into the Capitol riot after Speaker Nancy Pelosi stripped his appointment as ranking member of the Jan. 6 Committee gave Mayorkas until July 8 to comply.<\/p>\n<p>Banks also sent a letter to Cipollone over the White House counsel\u2019s whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApproximately, at what time did you enter the White House campus on January 6, 2021?\u201d Banks asked. \u201cPlease provide my office with written responses to the following questions by July 9, 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cipollone did not respond to The Federalist\u2019s inquiries.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana Republican Congressman Jim Banks is demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) disclose White House surveillance records to lawmakers in their investigation of blockbuster claims by the Jan. 6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1535565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}