select committee that is investigating january 6th and what happened has asked telecommunications companies to preserve their records of republican allies of the presidents who were on capitol hill that day, and former president trump himself. what signal does this give you about the direction they are headed. do you think this is going to be fru fruitful in any way of the conversations that he was having, you know, while holed up in the oval office that day with lawmakers who are on capitol hill, witnessing this. >> i think the former president doesn't text, so i mean, he gets texts and reads them. he doesn't really send them. the concern is there are going to be texts among lawmakers or his own aides talking about what he himself said or was doing in that moment. that is the concern there. what i think the committee is doing more broadly is trying to figure out whether there was at minimum a delay in trying to, you know, deal with the threat of what was happening at the capitol, and also whether there was something more coordinated and organized and there has been this question as we have seen all along, a reuters report a