January 6th Committee Reveals Capitol Rioter Was On The Phone With White House During Riot

Denver Riggleman, a senior staffer with the January 6th Committee, revealed to 60 Minutes that someone participating in the Capitol Riot was on the phone with "someone" inside the White House during the actual riot. The rioter was able to call into the White House switchboard and get transferred to the person they wanted to speak with, though Riggleman said he didn't know who was on the other end of the phone. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Late Friday, CBS's 60 minutes revealed that Denver Riggleman, who was a, a senior staffer with the January 6th committee up until April of this year, uh, Mr. Riggleman in an interview revealed that they had uncovered information showing that a white house switchboard had connected someone in the white house to a capital rioter taking part in the capital riot on January 6th. So according to Mr Riggleman, who says he doesn't know who was on the end of the phone at the white house. So we don't know who from Trump's administration was talking to the capital rioter, but we do have the evidence to show that somebody at Donald Trump's white house was on the phone with a capital rioter while the riot was happening. And of course, as folks on social media pointed out, you can rule out this simply being a very, you know, coincidental, but dial because even if somebody had accidentally, you know, left their phone on, in their pocket and managed to type the keys that got them to the white house, switchboard, the switchboard is not going to connect to call when there's nobody responding on the other line, or all you hear is chaos.

On the other side of it, they're going to hang up. They're not going to connect you to somebody. So the butt dial hypothesis is already out the window.

The question is, and Riggleman said he only knew he was on one side of the phone call. So I guess we have two questions. Riman knows the answer one, but didn't tell us who was the capital rioter, who was this person? And what are their connections? I mean, calling into the white house, switchboard is one thing, right? Like I think all of us could do that right now. A little bit of slew thing, make sure you get the right number you call in. You're gonna get to the switchboard, but getting through it, that getting to it is easy. Getting through it is not.

So who in that mob was calling into the white house. That's question one and question two, obviously, who were they calling now? This could be something simple. It could be not anybody higher up at the Trump administration. It could be a staffer who was there. Not because they were a part of the riot, but because they were there, you know, they could have been doing something meeting with Republicans there and then, oh my God, let me call, get patch me through to the white house. I gotta talk to the aids. I gotta let them know what's happening. It could be. I mean, cuz we're not gonna jump to conclusions. It could be something totally innocuous like that. Right. That's that's completely harmless. And it would also fall in line with what Rigal men is telling us that, oh, we know who was on one end, but we don't know who was on the end at the white house. Hmm. You, you could easily

Take that statement and apply it to something innocuous, but it still seems, you know, pretty salacious. So that's option number one, option number two, maybe it's a friend or spouse or partner of somebody who worked in the white house. Hey honey, I'm here at the Capitol riot. It's crazy. Wow. Yeah. Could be something like that. Or the obviously more serious possibility is it could be somebody at the capital riot calling into the white house saying I'm here. Now what chief? We don't know. And when I say chief, I, I, I said that just cuz that's an expression. I didn't necessarily mean, you know, chief as in commander in chief. Um, so we don't know. And Riggleman says he doesn't know who was on the white house end of that phone call. But clearly this is something the January 6th committee has to work on.