In a new letter, the Capitol Police chief said that a group tour of the Capitol complex led by GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia was not suspicious and did not enter the Capitol itself.
The House select committee asked Loudermilk about the tour he gave after reading the letter from the police chief.
The committee is looking into the matter of whether Republican members of Congress allowed tours of the Capitol to be conducted in advance of the riots.
Manger wrote a letter to Davis, who is the ranking member of the Committee on House Administration.
The Capitol Police Board was asked by Davis to look at the footage from the tour.
According to Manger, the video shows that Loudermilk never entered the Capitol building with a group of people.
The group spent all of their time in three large buildings that are part of the Capitol complex and have underground tunnels that lead to the U.S. Capitol building. The Cannon House Office Building contains a number of exhibits.
Loudermilk did not take his people in any tunnels that would have taken them to the Capitol.
The truth will always prevail according to Loudermilk.
The January 6 Committee made a baseless accusation about me to the media, and a small group visiting their congressman is in no way a suspicious activity. The Capitol Police have verified this.
The majority of House members voted to reject the certification of the Electoral College votes for President Joe Biden from Arizona and Pennsylvania.
The proceeding was disrupted for hours by supporters of Trump, who had lied about Biden winning the election and that widespread ballot fraud had caused him to lose.
The Senate and House of Representatives are located in the Capitol, which has a distinctive dome.
Rioters broke into the Capitol and disrupted a joint session of Congress that was in the middle of voting on Biden.
The House was barricaded and guarded by police, who shot and killed a rioter who tried to break into the Speaker's Lobby, which leads into the House chamber.
Davis said that his findings were a blow to the committee's credibility.
Barry Loudermilk, a Republican member of the 1/6 Select Committee, was accused of giving tours by House Democrats.
The committee didn't say that Loudermilk gave a tour.
According to public reporting and witness accounts, some individuals and groups are trying to gather information about the layout of the US Capitol, as well as the House and Senate office buildings.
The Republicans on the Committee on House Administration, which Loudermilk sits on, claimed to have reviewed security video footage of the days leading up to the riot and found that there were no large groups or tours.
The letter from the panel's chair, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and its vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said that the committee's review of evidence directly contradicted the denial.
Brandon Cockerham said in an email to CNBC that the committee chose their words very carefully because they didn't have a shred of evidence.
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