date, a very important date. so he's -- between the domestic agenda and afghanistan his plate's full and it's all converging right now before december 30th. >> max, we're learning this january 6 commission, they're demanding documents, communication records from a long list of agencies including the doj, the defense, fbi, and others, plus the national archives. they want to know what was going on inside the trump white house and all the conversations going on. does this tell you anything about the direction this committee is going? >> it shows me that this committee is trying to undertake a serious investigation. they're not going to sweep this under the rug. they're trying to get at the truth, and i think that's incredible important, given that this was arguably the worst attack on the capitol since the war of 1812. we need to find out what happened and we still don't have a complete picture. we have a pretty good picture, don, of what happened on january 6th itself. we have all the videos that have been pieced together. we've seen the insurrectionists