Since the Congressional Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol began hearings earlier this year, there have calls from Democrats and others for the Justice Department to conduct a criminal probe of former President Donald Trump and his allies’ alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 president election.

There were criticisms of Attorney General Merrick Garland for not moving fast enough or even confirming a criminal investigation was underway.

That all changed last week when the FBI executed a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago estate in Florida – not looking for election-related materials but documents he may have removed from the White House when he left.

Back on the election front though, Central Pennsylvania Republican Congressman Scott Perry confirmed the FBI seized his cell phone looking for evidence related to the use of fake electors to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory.

Then PennLive reported that several Republican state lawmakers were subpoenaed as well. The PennLive journalists who broke that story – Jan Murphy and Charles Thompson are on Monday's Smart Talk.

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