president. joining us now, cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles. ryan, why do trump's lawyers want the u.s. supreme court to read this article so badly? >> reporter: it is based on the premise the former president and many of his allies have made trying to undercut the credibility of the january 6 select committee. they argue the committee does not have as its specific goal a legislative purpose meaning the reason this committee exists is to draft legislation that would ultimately lead to laws but instead in their mind it is nothing more than an attempt to try and catch either the former president or his allies in some sort of criminal conspiracy that would ultimately lead to criminal charges. now, this is something the committee has soundly rejected. they've said, indeed. their main goal is a legislative purpose and at the end of all of this they hope to tell a story as to what happened on january 6th and then offer up tangible legislative fixes to prevent something like this from ever happening again. still, the trump lawyers believe