are calling them, almost easter eggs, no pun intended for this weekend, they are coming out of and i find the republican member of congress if i am a republican member of congress, do you think the committee should be concerned that they would have my text messages as well? i think the committee has a lot of text messages from people that we don t yet know about. there was an update today on the information collected and it turned out over 181 people people who had voluntarily been subpoenaed and sat for interviews and depositions. they have over 100,000 pages worth of documents. mark meadows text messages consist of a substantial, tiny sliver of that broader trove of documents they have collected. but i think, undoubtedly, this may be potentially putting more pressure on the department of justice, which has yet to say whether or not they are ultimately going to decide to
the court appearance in just a second. i m hallie jackson in washington, on what is shaping up to be a busy friday afternoon, nbc s leigh ann caldwell knows that well, she is on capitol hill, we re joined by jake sherman of punchbowl news and msnbc political contributor along with nicholas wu. leigh ann, let me start with you. these documents that have now been turned over to the january 6th committee, tell us what we ve learned because there is some more clarity on a big question that was out there, what did they actually want? what did they think was in these documents? we still don t know for sure, but lay it out. reporter: no, it s 700 pages worth of documents that the committee has received less than two days after the supreme court cleared the way for the january 6th select committee to get these documents. we have a little bit of insight into what the committee wanted from these documents. they laid this out in appeals court and specifically and some of the things that they de
from the draft order just a day later. he could immediately on his order seize every single one of these machines around the country on his order. he could also order he could order within the swing states if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and he could place them in those states and basically rerun an election in each of those states. cnn has not been able to independently verify the draft, but it is believed to be part of a massive batch of documents, 700 pages worth, not the hands of the house select committee on january 6 and one of the things that trump fought to keep it out of view. and joining us is john dean. john, thanks for being with us. thankfully this plan was never rolled into motion. but just the fact that it was being discussed reportedly is the stuff of banana republics. it certainly is.
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congressional correspondent, one of the early authors of the tutu newspaper. it is part of the team that broke the story that the documents had been ripped and taped back together. she joins me now. would you like to tell me more about the state of these documents that were transmitted to the committee? yeah, chris, we re still trying to figure out more about these documents exactly because as you noted, the committee has not officially detail what was in this trench of 700 pages worth of records that was transmitted from the national archives to the january six committee investigating the insurrection. so we re not quite sure how valuable some of them had been shredded up and then taped back together might be, but we do have a number of clues including a review of court records which materials former president trump sought to assert privilege in his unsuccessful efforts to prevent the transmission of these documents. and these potentially included some of the presidential findings c