and they have two advantages that the impeachment managers did not have. one is the ability to call witnesses. and the other is the ability to subpoena documents from the white house. that s why this battle over executive privilege is so important. to get at the documents that will show what was going on around the president on january 6th, while the riot was happening. and in the time leading up to that riot. and this is not simply communications back and forth with aides. it s also things like the video outtakes. he did the one horrific video on january 6th where he told people to go home, but he also said we love you and justified what they were doing. that s one of, i m told, several takes. earlier takes were deemed unacceptable because he didn t
with the call, mccarthy pleaded, i just got evacuated from the capitol. there were shots fired right off the house floor. you need to make this stop. the source said trump pushed back, repeating the lie his supporters embraced that the election was stolen. they are just more upset than you, because they believe it more than you, kevin, he told mccarthy. when trump finally released a video calling on the rioters to go home, he also praised them. we love you. you are very special. reporter: a source who was with trump when he made the video told me that trump recorded multiple versions that were deemed unacceptable by his aides, because he praised the rioters. but he didn t tell them to go home. all right, so, let s get to jon karl tonight. jon, because those messages were recorded at the white house, i know the january 6th committee would like them as part of their investigation into that day, but do we know if they were even saved? reporter: david, we don t know if those