former president and the trump white house was not very great at keeping records or perhaps skirting records. we don t know yet and that s one of the questions the january 6th select committee has. you re right, if donald trump, during those hours long gap of phone records on january 6th, if he was using a cell phone or those documents weren t turned over to the national archives and maybe they re still at mar-a-lago or there s a possibility the national archives haven t turned over that set of documents. they have a lot of questions about this. obviously they want to piece together what happened on that day on who the former president spoke to and when. and without those records or with that gap, it raises a lot of questions. especially since they know he
hillary clinton for her handling of sensitive documents and effectively give donald trump a pass. and in fact, that was the fbi investigation, especially in the late days, 11 days before the election, the reopening of that investigation, the fbi and closure of it that had a critical effect on any momentum she had to close the gap. so, it was very important in the decision. susan, liz cheney said that the january 6th committee is not going to be intimidated, she wrote in the wall street journal. those who do not wish the truth of january 6th to come out have claimed it s tainted and political. our hearings will show this to be wrong and we ll present those facts without exaggeration, no matter what criticism we face. she s not backing down, despite the political assault. she s been isolated from the republican party and not going to events back home.
she seems completely committed to this track no matter what the political attacks on her. yeah. for better or worse, i think her dye is cast with seeking and demanding questions on what happened january 6th, criticizing what president trump s role in that was. and i think she s right. the january 6th committee will not be intimidated but they phase what could be a real deadline with the midterm elections. because if republicans win control of the house, they are unlikely to continue this inquiry. so, they have a real deadline looming in front of them, andrea. and turning to the supreme court, let s listen to what president biden told lester holt about the short lirs. list. what i ve done is i ve taken about four people and done the deep dive on the meaning, the thorough background checks and see if there s anything in the
washington post is reporting that some white house records that donald trump took to mar-a-lago were clearly marked classified, including some at the top secret level. this as phone logs obtained by the january 6th committee don t show calls to or from president trump during the attack on the capital. he s known to have phone calls during those hours. so, what happened? joining me is lean caldwell and chief correspondent for tbs news hour and washington burrow chief for u.s.a. today. the documents labelled classified down at mar-a-lago raise a lot of questions and also the absence of the phone records. could be he was using his or another cell phone, which he did at times. but what is the january 6th committee looking at? it s become clear that the