Jan. 6 panel wants answers from lawmaker it says led a Capitol tour before the attack

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The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is asking Georgia GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk to voluntarily share information about a tour he led the day before the siege that could have helped insurrectionists.

The panel said Loudermilk should appear before the committee next week to explain.

Soon after the attack, in which rioters broke through barriers and stormed the Capitol hoping to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election, concerns rose that some Republican lawmakers had given tours of the Capitol complex that later helped people navigate the hallways and offices.

Loudermilk and House Republicans have long claimed they didn't lead any such pre-Jan. 6 tours.

"However, the Select Committee's review of evidence directly contradicts that denial," Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson, D-Miss., and Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., wrote in their letter to Loudermilk.