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Day 289 of the biden administration. the focus is on capitol hill where the democrats are finally expected to vote tomorrow on the president's spending plan. we should add, in fairness, your u.s. senate is leaving on a ten-day break and the house is out next week as well. so you get the urgency that has gripped washington. on another front, the committee investigating the 1/6 insurrection, donald trump's attempts to keep documents related to that day private and away from that committee appear to be increasingly futile. the deadline to hand over about 770 pages of it is next friday. it seems a...

Executive privilege. this comes after the national archives laid out exactly what kind of documents he's trying to keep secret from lawmakers investigating the insurrection. cnn's paula reid explains. ♪ >> reporter: former president trump is seeking to stop congress from gaining access to a wide range of documents related to the january 6 attack on the capitol. according to a court filing from the national archives, trump has asserted privilege over 770 pages of documents from his time in the white house, including handwritten memos from his chief of staff about january 6. 30 pages of his da...

"washington post" report, an astounding book length piece of journalism in the sunday paper about the january 6th attack on the capitol. has uncovered new information that could potentially impact the house committee investigation into 1/6. among the many revelations, there was this concerning the former president and we quote, for 187 minutes trump resisted entreaties to intervene from advisers, allies and his elder daughter as well as lawmakers under attack. fast forward to today, and the former president's currently trying to keep lawmakers from getting their hands on any documents related ...

Also working on legislation to protect the voting process of certifying an election in order to prevent another january 6th from happening. >> let's bring in cnn senior legal analyst, elie honig, what do we know about the documents, how important they could be? >> these are going to be absolutely crucial documents. they go right to the heart of the january 6th committee's investigation. let's look at the people involved. these documents were created by and about the core people around donald trump, donald trump himself, the vice president, mike pence, the chief of staff, former chief of staff,...

Office. former president donald trump, mike pence, mark meadow, the former chief of staff, kayly mcenany, stephen miller, and patrick philbin. his inner circle on january 6th. we are learning a bit more about the specific content of the documents. 770-plus pages involved here. they include handwritten notes,s internal memos, call logs, draft speeches and something called the daily diary which lays out the minute-by-minute communications of the president. how did we end up here? the january 6th committee served an opinion on the national archives to get these documents. donald trump, however, f...