According to Rawstory, Betsy Woodruff-Swan, one of the DC media power couple, wed to Jonathan Swan (think they know some stuff about what’s going on?), says that the committee wants Kayleigh McEnany’s notebooks, the same ones she loved to slam after insulting the press and huffing out, because those notebooks may contain key evidence as to what the administration knew and planned leading up to January 6th.

We confess that we don’t see it. But we also confess that Woodruff-Swan is in a far better position than us to know. From our point of view and our experience, the press secretary is often intentionally left out of certain plans and meetings so that he or she can tell the truth when saying that he or she knows nothing about a topic. Of course, that was before the Trump administration when there was some honor to the position.

We have one guess about why those notebooks could contain valuable information. If Kayleigh did have an idea what was to come, and especially after January 6th, it is entirely possible that the White House worried that a reporter with a hot tip could ask about what the White House had planned and how does it respond to.. “QUOTE THAT SHOCKS THEM” about what a source might have said.

In such a scenario, the “notebook” would want to have a canned answer ready to a question about “EXAMPLE” and, depending on the question, “I don’t know anything about that” wouldn’t do. That is our best guess.

But again, we’re not in the position that Woodruff-Swan is in to know what she’s talking about and we’re plenty secure in ourselves as a site to admit it. So we’re going to report that the committee has real interest in what those notebooks say, which could only mean that they believe the notebooks contain serious information that would help put the story together.

According to Woodruff-Swan: (Video Below)

We know the select committee has also subpoenaed many notebooks that she had that were part of the messaging that was being pushed out,” Woodruff Swan said Saturday. “Of course, we know what the administration’s public messaging was in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6. Their messaging fanned the flames of the deranged conspiracy theories that resulted in the attack on the Capitol.”

That’s the question that always comes back to me as I look at everything that (Trump adviser Steve) Bannon and (former president Donald) Trump and their sordid allies had in mind in those weeks before Jan. 6,” Woodruff Swan said. “What did they think was going to happen? What did they expect? What were they hoping the outcome would be when they had that massive gathering on the mall and then gave speeches that were so incredibly incendiary?”

That is still tough for us to imagine that the committee would learn something it didn’t already know through her answers but we’re willing to trust her. She is a damned good reporter and is married to a damned good reporter. Between the two of them, there is a lot of knowledge as to what is going on inside the Capitol.

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