House Committee Requests Cooperation From Sean Hannity In Inquiry On Capitol Riot

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is asking Fox News host Sean Hannity to cooperate with its inquiry.

In a release from the committee on Tuesday, Reps. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said they were requesting that Hannity, a frequent Trump apologist, voluntarily answer questions from the committee, including about his communications with then-President Donald Trump, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and others surrounding the assault on the Capitol during a joint session of Congress.

In a letter to Hannity, the committee members said that he appeared to have “advance knowledge” of Trump and his team’s “planning for January 6th” and also had been “expressing concerns and providing advice” to Trump and White House staff, including “while the riot was underway.”

“On January 5th, the night before the violent riot, you sent and received a stream of texts,” the committee wrote to the Fox News host. “You wrote: ‘Im very worried about the next 48 hours.’ With the counting of the electoral votes scheduled for January 6th at 1 p.m., why were you concerned about the next 48 hours?”