light on the pressure her father put on pence not to certify the election. she could really, you know, perhaps complete the portrait of what happened on january 6th for us. reporter: the committee also sifting through documents from the national archives after the supreme court cleared the way for their release. it s been a very good week for us with the supreme court decision rejecting trump s efforts to block release of a whole bunch of documents. reporter: while witnesses like former white house press secretary stephanie grisham shed light on trump s paranoid mindset and the meetings he was convening in the white house ahead of january 6th. there were meetings taking place up there. mark meadows would have been there as well as the legal team working on all of the plans. reporter: and politico is reporting one of the documents trump wanted to keep secret from the congressional investigators was a draft executive order requiring the defense secretary to seize voting machi
election. like, it shows how intent he is on showing the power of his endorsement, but if your endorsement is really powerful, then the person you endorse will get the boost, right? you don t have to worry if it s really the power of your name. i think the problem is, as oftentimes with trump within trump s circle is that everyone has competing interests and, you know, conflicts of interest and things that they are pushing and so no one trusts anyone. and that s really just a problem within trump s inner circle. as far as republicans, i think if he does move ahead with endorsing more than one person in an election, i think, you know, it definitely dilutes the seriousness of his endorsements if that s going to be the case. yeah, it actually could hurt it could split the trump vote. it could be counterproductive. phil, let s switch to president trump i m sorry, president
requested a special grand jur tree gather evidence and compel witnesses to look at trump s attempts to overturn the election results in that state. and the new york attorney general s office says it has identified numerous misleading statements and omissions in the trump organization s financial statements. as cnn s sara murray reports for us, the legal troubles may not stop any time soon for the former president. reporter: an extraordinary week of investigators ramping up legal pressure on former president donald trump and his family. as a district attorney, i do not have the right to look the other way on any crime that may have happened in my jurisdiction. reporter: in georgia s fulton county, the district attorney is asking to see a special grand jury this spring to collect evidence for her probe into trump s efforts to overturn georgia s 2020 election results. she wants subpoenas for testimony from witnesses like georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger, trump s target
trump administration. last year bragg told cnn the trump case merits the attention of the da personally. new york attorney general, la ti james also ramping up her investigation. we have a parallel investigation, a criminal investigation. reporter: she s looking to compel testimony from trump, as well as ivanka trump and donald trump jr. in her civil probably, after laying out a trove of findings about what her office believes are fraudulent or misleading financial statements. this, as the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection now asking ivanka trump to voluntarily cooperate and shed light on the pressure her father put on pence not to certify the election. she could really perhaps complete the portrait of what happened on january 6th for us. reporter: the committee also sifting through documents from the national archives, after the supreme court cleared the way for their release. it s been a very good week for us with the supreme court decision r
between the election and the insurrection could have been far worse than they were. yeah, that s exactly right. it s this executive order, had it been issued, we had seen other reports of trump having seized upon executive actions that he tried to effect between the election and inauguration which never actually went anywhere. one he submitted to the department of defense on something else. it s not clear what would have happened had he signed his name to this. but there was absolutely this very, very robust effort to try and move forward with any strategy that came on to his table that might possibly preserve his power. i think what s fascinating about the executive order that politico obtained is how even then, even on december 16th it was rooted in nonsense. it centered on this issue in michigan in the northern part of michigan which had already been debunked. it was already set aside november 5th. well over a month before this thing is dated, but the conspiracy theory lived on an