excessive climate change. good afternoon, i m jim sciutto in for erin burnett, and outfront tonight, preparing for battle. cnn has learned that investigators want to force former trump officials to testify in court, and will use the court to do so. they want to know the actions of former president trump around january 6th, and this is the clearest sign yet that they are zeroing in on trump s actions as he tried to cling to power. this development is coming as the january 6th select committee is speaking to former acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, and former secretary state steve mnuchin, and a key witness, mnuchin had conversations with trump cabinet members hours after the cabinet, and he had a conversation about trying to remove trump by evoking the 25th amendment, and a number of people that he spoke to included secretary of state pompeo, and tonight, pompeo also appears closer to sitting down with the committee. we have had discussions with them about potential a
pointing out, this is a beginning, and we expect they will be coming back, and able to come back to them, and try to, you know, get through the presidential privilege issue to try to get additional information from the witnesses. john, we learned that the january 6th committee spoke with secretary mnuchin, and one of the things that they asked about is this effort by john carl tovs own cabinet member, and why would the committee focus in on that? would bit be the state of mind, and what the president was capable of then? it is certainly showing the feeling of those around him about the president s state of mind. it is not a good process to invoke the constitution to place him on a disabled list. it is really awkward. i happened to work on that amendment when i was with the house judiciary committee, and