Former Attorney General Bill Barr has met with the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot, Chairman Bennie Thompson revealed on Sunday.
The Mississippi Democrat appeared on CBS News' Face The Nation where he confirmed a report that Donald Trump was presented with an executive order during the last full month of his presidency which would have had the military seize voting machines in battleground states.
'Do you intend to go to the Attorney General, Bill Barr, to ask him about this? I mean, how do you follow up on this kind of allegation and the paperwork to back it up?' host Margaret Brennan asked.
Thompson said they already had -- but did not elaborate on what the conversation was about.
'To be honest with you, we've had conversations with the former attorney general already,' he said, adding: 'We have talked to Department of Defense individuals. We are concerned that our military was part of this big lie on promoting that the election was false.'
'So, if you are using the military to potentially seize voting machines, even though it's a discussion, the public needs to know, we've never had that before.
'And so any of these individuals who are participating and trying to stop the election, the duly election of a president, and if we can document it, we will share it with the public.'
He did not say whether Barr would testify again during the panel's upcoming public hearings, only vowing they would 'continue to engage' with people relevant to the probe into what led to the insurrection on January 6 of last year.
Thompson revealed for the first time on Sunday that his committee has heard from former Trump Attorney General Bill Barr
He didn't say what Barr, who left the administration at the end of December 2020, discussed
Barr resigned from his post as attorney general in late December 2020, and has since publicly dismissed Trump's election fraud theories.
Late last week Politico published the text of a draft executive order that would have forced the Defense Secretary to 'seize, collect, retain and analyze' voting machines in states that narrowly went to
