overturn the election results. that man is donald trump s top white house lawyer pat cipollone. he sat down for a transcribed interview under oath with investigators this morning. as far as we can tell, that interview or that meeting is ongoing at this hour. punch bowl news reports this about the parameters of today s testimony from cipollone, quote, sources tell us that the select committee does not have an agreement about what investigators can or cannot ask him. prior to hutchinson s testimony the panel had discussed an arrangement with cipollone for an on the record interview, but cipollone backed away from it, sources tell us. cipollone is expected to claim executive privilege over conversations he had with trump, but there is plenty that the committee is interested in outside of that category. for example, we expect cipollone will be asked about conversations with former white house chief of staff mark meadows. the possibility that cipollone could provide gamechanging i
sentences a lot of black tape! we shall see, who knows. we shall. 24 hours have a good show, have a good show. thank you. one reason that the national archives knew that donald trump did not hand over all presidential records when he left the white house was that some of the most famous documents of the trump presidency were not delivered to the archives after joe biden s inauguration day. first among them was the very first document donald trump received as document, a handwritten letter from president barack obama to his successor. that, by tradition, as everyone knows, is tucked into a drawer in the desk in the oval office for the incoming president. it was public information on inauguration day in 2017. that president obama left that letter for donald trump, who said, it was, quote, a beautiful letter. he actually said that about the president obama letter to him. and then, there were the letters that became, possibly, the most famous presidential letter
said, it was, quote, a beautiful letter. he actually said that about the president obama letter to him. and then, there were the letters that became, possibly, the most famous presidential letters in history. the trump love letters. i got a very beautiful letter from kim jong-un, he really wrote beautiful three page, i mean right from top to bottom, a really beautiful letter. donald trump never said very much about the text of those letters from the north korean dictator. but he was never shy about the feelings expressed in those letters. we fell in love. okay? no, really. he wrote me beautiful letters. and they are great letters. we fell in love. for most of us, and that was just more trumpian the thundery. that was just donald trump opening up like that about love letters from a murderous dictator, was, for the most of us, just another one of those moments when we knew he was crazy but we did not know he was that crazy. but imagine imagine you are a senior archi
records that were taken by the twice-impeached ex-president when he left office in january 2021. the new reporting also details team trump s months of resistance led by the ex-president himself to handing over records containing some of the country s most important and guarded national security secrets. it reveals that the search of trump s private resident was actually many months in the making and really just the latest chapter in a long, simmering investigation. here s what happened when the national archives got their hands on the first batch of documents from mar-a-lago back in january according to this new reporting in the washington post, quote, when archives employees began opening up and sifting the material they noticed an immediate problem. the boxes arrived without logs and inventories to describe their content according to a person familiar with the recovery. instead they contained a hodgepodge of documents including some that didn t come from trump s time in o
good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle. today was a very, very busy day on the hill. the fifth january 6th hearing, and we saw even more revelations of just how far former president donald trump was willing to go to stay in office. front and center. how the former president attempted to strong-arm officials and his own justice department to overturn the 2020 election. the riveting testimony came from trump s former acting attorney general, jeff rosen, his deputy, richard donoghue and ha council stephen engel. how often did president trump contact you or the department to push allegations of election fraud. so, between december 23rd and january 3rd, president either called me or met with me virtually every day. on december 13th, an organization called the allied security group issued a report that alleged that the dominion voting machines in that county had a secret 68% error rate. he was adamant that the report must be accurate, that proof that he in fact won