Special counsel Jack Smith speaks to the media about an indictment of former President Donald Trump, Aug. 1, 2023, at an office of the Department of Justice in Washington. J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Senate Republicans announced Monday the FBI, as part of special counsel Jack Smith’s January 6 investigation , used court orders in 2023 to obtain the phone records of nine GOP lawmakers, a move the senators called “political weaponization.”

It’s unclear what exactly investigators were seeking to determine by pulling the records, and there’s no indication that these senators were targets of Smith’s investigation.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley released the FBI record at a news conference Monday, where Republicans emphasized that the phone records were obtained through a grand j

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