former president trump s white house documents are now with congress. a source tells cnn that the white house, the house select committee investigating january 6 has received hundreds of pages from the national archives as of this morning. now former president trump had tried to block the house committee from ever seeing those documents. claiming executive privilege. but the supreme court did not buy that argument. the panel is seeking more than 700 pages of records detailing what happened in the white house around the time of the capitol insurrection. and we re also learning new details about attempts by trump allies to over turn the 2020 election. multiple sources with direct knowledge tell cnn that trump campaign officials led by rudy giuliani over saw efforts in december of 2020 to put forward fake electors from seven states that trump lost. pennsylvania, georgia, michigan, arizona, wisconsin, nevada and new mexico.
me almost 100 times today during the interrogation on advice of council, i am asserting my fifth ameasurement right to remain silent. reporter: and said he did not want to answer all the questions for fear of perjuring himself. i m the type that tries to answer things correctly, even if i don t know all the answers, and they could then claim it s personalry. because about half the questions i didn t know the answer to. and a bunch of them were emails i d never seen. and planning things i d never seen, at least from memory. the january 6 committee may soon get more information from another key trump ally, conservative attorney john eastman, who worked for trump leading up to the insurrection. he has tried to convince then vice president mike pence if he could overturn the election results on january 6. a federal judge ordered eastman to respond to the committee s subpoena seeking his emails from the university where he previously worked. sman s lawyer also acknowledged
that person. and his attempts to try to lay out an erroneous, unlawful plan to have these substitute and false electors try to thwart the certification process. so these are all going combine. remember the timing of all this. we ve already known there are hundreds of people that have spoken to the committee, which means at this stage, there are more than likely having a clearer picture and putting in pieces and having corroboration more than just realizations and epiffys. to the extent his emails actually provide more information, i suspect it will really corroborate what s already known and what s already out there. to jeffrey s point, remember, the attorney/client privilege even though it wasn t his client, have some con straits. if it s outside the scope it s not privileged and if others are aware of it, it also goes away. combine that with the discussion of executive privilege, you don t really is a leg to stand on if you re john eastman. the deputy attorney general of the united
so i think to myself oh what a wonderful world more potential evidence is coming to the house select committee investigating the january 6 insurrection. visitor logs from white house that could reveal who former president trump saw that day. cnn s senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid has details. reporter: the house select committee investigating january 6 will soon get a new window
investigation into the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol, including a possible time frame for an interim report. cnn s whitney wild has the details from washington. reporter: the house select committee investigating january 6 has paired back its request. the biden administration said in some cases they are just not relevant to the investigation. in other cases the committee is deferring its request after the administration decided they are highly sensitive and originated outside the white house in the executive branch. these are the kinds of developments that show the committee is still working at warp speed to collect and analyze as much information as possible for what now seems to be a likely interim report issued over the summer with a possibility of a full report sometime in the fall. the committee is entering a new more public phase with plans for public hearings sometime in 2022. meanwhile, a conservative judge