scared, speak to go glenn youngkin. natasha alford, thank you so much. told the house committee investigating the january 6th attack postponed its requests for dozens of pages of records from the trump white house. we don t know what is in those rec records, but we do know donald trump has tried to play the executive privilege card on more than 40 other documents, and we re also expecting to hear about a subpoena for a conservative attorney, john eastman, he s the one who drafted that memo outlining multiple ways to overturn the fair election results. cnn s ryan nobles is on capitol hill. why is the committee postponing this request? the big reason is because it is so many documents that the national archives needs to go through, and each one of these documents individually could be a lengthy court battle, so they want to be very specific in the information they re requesting because the former president has already issued this request to
i don t think it will take a long period for the justice department to decide. i think they could do that in a matter of days or weeks. and there s this olc memo at doj that refuses to bring contempt of charges congress to executive branch officials if they defy congressional subpoenas. but, of course, with steve bannon, it s a little bit of a different case, right? he wasn t in the white house during the time in question, even though he s trying to play the executive privilege card. yeah. it doesn t make sense legally. it doesn t make sense factually. it doesn t make a lot of sense optically. if steve bannon and others think that everything that happened on january 6th was good and great and kosher and the people who engaged in that conduct, we love them and they re heroes and they should be propped up, then what does he have to lose? if it s the case that the former acting attorney general rosen testified before that panel and could cooperate with that panel, it makes no since as
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and here again, they re doing it on the field hoff play and making it a lot of fun to watch, as well. we ll be cheering them on in france. christine brennan, thank you very much. thanks to all of you for tuning in. i m brooke baldwin. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. quote, it s not what i meant, it s what i said. an instant classic. the lead starts right now. breaking news, president trump refusing to clarify his pledge, his seeming pledge, not to use cia informants against kim jong-un as the president keeps a letter from the nuclear armed dictator a mystery. i want to know why it was why this question was magically added. also, breaking now. house democrats accusing the trump administration of dirty census tricks to rig the system, holding a major vote any minute after the white house plays the executive privilege card. and to the left, to the left, senator bernie sanders
reporter: democrats are bracing for a long showdown. trump is goading us to impeach him. that s what he s doing. every single day, he s just, like, taunting, taunting, taunting. cecilia vega live at the white house tonight. and cecilia, congress wants to see don mcgahn s notes, they want him to testify on capitol hill, as you just reported there, but what kind of legal standing does the white house have to try to block this from happening? reporter: well, david, the white house seems to be gearing up to exert executive privilege on this one, that could essentially block don mcgahn from testifying on certain topics. the democrats are certain to challenge that. they say that president trump essentially gave up his executive privilege card when he allowed don mcgahn to participate in the mueller probe. one thing, david, seems certain tonight, we are likely looking at a long legal fight ahead. all right, cecilia vega, live at the white house. cecilia, thank you, as always. toni