vice president mike pence's team was willing to tell the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. sources tell cnn that pence's top aides would not discuss direct conversations between pence and former president trump. cnn's ryan nobles has this new reporting for us. sources are telling us that the interviews with pence's aides were not contentious but the committee did not exactly get the answers they were looking for? >> reporter: well, it depends on which topic area you are talking about. in general, sources tell us that they did view these interviews with greg jacob and marc short, they viewed them as productive and these interviews were not contentious but there was certainly a line that jacob and short were unwilling to cross at the direction of the former president and his attorneys. essentially they were not going to have or disclose any information they knew about direct conversations between pence and the former president or conversations that they