text: January 6 "war room" The Washington Post reported on October 23, 2021, that, in the days leading up to the January 6 protest at the US Capitol, a series of rooms and suites in the hotel functioned as an informal "command center" headed by Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani for a White House plot  to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The Guardian reported that, during a January 5 meeting at the hotel, lawyer John C. Eastman went through his January 4 memo describing his theory that Vice President Mike Pence could refuse to certify certain state elector slates the following day, and hand Trump a second term instead. On November 8, 2021, the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack issued subpoenas to Eastman and five other Trump allies present at the meeting. On November 30, 2021, The Guardian further reported that Trump personally called his lieutenants at the hotel on the night of January 5 to discuss how to delay certification of the election results. On December 27, 2021, the House select committee announced its intention to investigate that phone call. In testimony before the House select committee on June 28, 2022, Cassidy Hutchinson, aide to Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, confirmed that Trump instructed Meadows to place a phone call to those present in the Willard "war room." As The Guardian reported on July 2, 2022, Trump's request that Meadows place this phone call to Roger Stone and Michael Flynn at the Willard the night before the storming of the Capitol suggests a direct line of communication from the White House to the far-right militias that Stone and Flynn were connected with, including the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys. On June 28, 2023, The New York Times reported that Giuliani had been voluntarily interviewed by federal prosecutors under a proffer agreement about multiple subjects, including the "war room" at the Willard, where he was present with Eastman, Steve Bannon and Trump advisor Boris Epshteyn.