Breaking news about former Trump aides voluntarily cooperating with the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol could influence voters during the midterm elections, a CNN political analyst explained on Tuesday.
"New to CNN just this hour, breaking new details about the January 6th investigation," CNN's John King reported. "Five former Trump White House officials have talked to the committee."
CNN chief White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins said, "this is significant in the fact that these are people who are going in voluntarily to speak with this committee that's investigating what happened that day, and this is because either the committee has reached out to them or vice versa to talk about what it is that they know that was happening inside the West Wing, what information did they hear, what were they seeing on that day."
For analysis, King interviewed New York Times national political correspondent Lisa Lerer.
"And we know how the former president operates," King said. "And we know what is likely to happen in his world and in his mind when he hears five former staffers cooperating, or at least engaging in communicating with the January 6th committee.
"Right," Lerer replied. "He's going to try to lock it down and get these people not to talk and figure out who is talking and, you know, raise threats for other people not to talk, but I think the point that people are talking is a good one and the timeline is important, too."
"As much as the Republicans wanted this to go away, as much as they have tried to rewrite the history on what happened that day, the fact that this is still ongoing shows that that's going to be harder for them to do," she explained.
"And it's not clear exactly how much voters want to hear about this. There's been some polling that indicates that voters would rather put this behind them, too. But new information can change public opinion pretty fast and it's certainly something that's very motivating for Democratic voters at a time when Democrats really need any additional enthusiasm they can get for their base, you know, as they look down the road to the midterms that are expected to be quite difficult," Lerer explained.
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