“Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Wednesday struggled to answer questions about his communications with then-President Donald Trump during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, telling a House panel that he doesn’t recall the number of times he spoke with Trump that day. The statement from Jordan, a staunch Trump ally and a potential witness in the House’s investigation of the attack, came during a Rules Committee meeting on whether to hold former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon in contempt for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena.”

“‘Of course I talked to the president,’ Jordan told members of the Rules Committee on Wednesday, in response to questioning from the panel’s chairman, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.). ‘I talked to him that day. I’ve been clear about that. I don’t recall the number of times, but it’s not about me. I know you want to make it about that.’ In the months since the attack, Jordan has given conflicting answers as to his communications with Trump that day. In a July interview with Spectrum News, the GOP lawmaker said he was not certain exactly when on Jan. 6 he spoke with Trump. ‘I spoke with him that day, after?’ Jordan said during the interview. ‘I think after. I don’t know if I spoke with him in the morning or not. I just don’t know. … I don’t know when those conversations happened.’ Then, in an August interview with Politico, Jordan confirmed for the first time that he spoke with Trump ‘more than once’ on Jan. 6” – Washington Post.