place. but the information in terms white house phone logs during the insurrection, one wonders whether he was a passive participant on other peoples phone calls. but i will let that matter lie for second and ask about a subject that i think has enjoyed a lot of people. and by intrigued, i mean disturbed, which is the role of the secret service and all of this. in item 16, the committee asks for all documents involving contacts with, or efforts with to contact witnesses who appeared or who are expected to appear before the committee, including white house staff, staff for year 2020 campaign, and who currently served in the united states secret service. the documents include any communications regarding directly or indirectly paying the legal fees for such witnesses, or finding, offering, discussing employment for any such witnesses. and then, any communications with deputy chief of staff, tony ornato, or any employee of the secret service with whom you interacted on january 6th, 20
we lose our authority when this congress is over. do you expect that he is going to comment testify? i mean there are reports that he ll testify, if he can do so live. there are reports that the committee is considering that. we have been down this road before where donald trump says, oh, yes, sure, i will absolutely testify, aka, the mueller saga. and it never happens. what is your over render that on him actually testifying before the committee? i mean, one of the pathologies of our time is that before we even look at what a reasonable law-abiding former president will do, we immediately get pulled into donald trump s psyche. and, you know, i hesitate to go there. but i will tell you that, we have talked to more than 1000 people, the overwhelming majority of people with called, including members of former president trump s cabinet, members of his innermost white house staff, members of his family have come forward to
questions about secret operations to counter iran in the middle east. trump s handling of classified intelligence is a topic of huge concern, given the justice department s investigation into hidden white house records at trump s florida beach club. and now, we know quite a bit about trump s efforts destruct officials from receiving, which reading those documents. the question of what exactly was in those documents, well, that has been more elusive. in august, a team of washington post reporters, led by devlin barrett, published a bombshell. fbi agents were looking for, among other things, documents related to nuclear weapons. the next month, the post confirmed that it document relating to a foreign government s nuclear capabilities was indeed found at mar-a-lago during the fbi search. and now, today, we got another bombshell from devlin barrett, again, one that has been since confirmed by nbc news. here s the headline. mar-a-lago classified papers held u.s. equates about iran and chin