Republicans have spent the past year arguing that Smith "spied" on them by obtaining their phone records. In a separate subpoena, Smith obtained text messages sent to and from Trump's phone while he was in office. When questioning Smith about the first subpoena, the committee asked whether he had requested text messages in those toll records. Smith said, "no," as there are no text messages in toll records. The committee was specific when it asked about texts in the first subpoena, saying "the toll records" in the questions.