At least five House Republicans sought pardons from President Donald Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, White House officials told the House Jan. 6 committee in a video shown Thursday.

The GOP lawmakers – Mo Brooks of Alabama, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Louie Gohmert of Texas, and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania – have denied wrongdoing and accused the committee of playing politics. 

Members of Trump's staff identified "members of Congress who contacted the White House after Jan. 6 to seek presidential pardons for their conduct," said Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., one of two Republicans on the special House panel investigating the attack. 

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., the committee's other Republican, said: "The only reason I know to ask for a pardon is because you think you have committed a crime."

Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, said Brook, Gaetz, Biggs, Gohmert and Perry all asked for pardons.