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Politics
Igor Derysh

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Dem trump gap suspiciously tailored - Caught on Camera

US President Donald Trump looks at his telephone from the Oval Office at the White House on August 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images

The House committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot has "intense interest" in the gap in former President Donald Trump's call log, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said Sunday as the panel weighs whether to issue a criminal referral against Trump to the Justice Department.

Raskin, a former Trump impeachment manager who sits on the committee, told CBS News on Sunday that the nearly eight-hour gap in Trump's White House phone logs on Jan. 6 covered the period when the Capitol was under siege. Trump made publicly reported calls during the time period and the committee has been able to piece together some of Trump's activities throughout the day but is still missing information.

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