executive privilege claim on january 6th-related documents. more now on all of this from cnn s evan perez, who joins us from the capitol. so what more do we know about clark testifying before the committee? reporter: well, anderson, this is a he is going to be testifying as a result of the subpoena that the committee issued. his former boss is jeffrey rosen, rich donoghue, the former-attorney general and deputy attorney general at the time, they testified voluntarily. and so, this testimony which we expect to happen next week really will give this committee a window into a central character of that drama that happened in those days those key days, the end of december, early january when trump was trying to get the justice department to weigh in on his side in these baseless claims that there was fraud in various states. and so, we know that clark was having conversations with trump. one of the things the committee wants to know is who was he working with besides donald trump, h
investigation say clark will testify a week from today. this comes at the end of a day that also saw federal judge set a november 4th hearing date on the former president s executive privilege claim on january 6th related documents. more now on all this from cnn s evan perez, who join us from the capitol. so what more do we know about clark testifying before the committee? reporter: well, anderson, this is a he is going to be testifying as a result of the subpoena that the committee issued. his former boss is jeffrey rosen, rich donoghue, the former-attorney general and deputy attorney general at the time, they testified voluntarily. and so, this testimony which we expect to happen next week really will give this committee a window into a central character of that drama that happened in those days those key days, the end of december, early january when trump was trying to get the justice department to weigh in on his side in these baseless claims that there was fraud in various
official to appear before the committee, a trump administration official who was actually subpoenaed. that s right, wolf. we ve had testimony from jeffrey rosen, who was then the acting attorney general in the trump administration. he appeared for about eight hours of testimony. but he appeared voluntarily. so did rich donoghue, deputy attorney general at the time. this is a big deal for this reason. jeffrey clark was having conversations with the former president and with others to try to orchestrate this coup, frankly, at the justice department. at one point they were planning to replace rosen with clark in order to carry out some of what trump wanted to do. he wanted the justice department to intervene on the side of the president, the former president, to say that there was some level of fraud, and that would give an opening on january 6 to try toc