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White house. they are deferring the request. there's a chance that they could come back to this and actually get those documents. these are the kinds of developments that show the committee is still working really at warp speed to collect and analyze this information for what we think is possibly an interim report in the summer with the possibility of a full report this fall. the committee is going to enter a new phase with plans for public hearings next year. as we move forward through next year, there will be a public phase. most of the work has been behind closed doors. >> absolutely. a lot...

Facts, give me those timelines and give me a jury. >> that -- she laid out an incredible set of things that i hope the committee is doing but what is the benefit of a time line like this. >> i have great respect for the former senator and i think much of what she described, the impeachment trial ultimately did did work in terms of compiling the timeline. i suspect that the committee is doing what she has described, putting together by virtual of the document request that they have gathered so far, putting together those missing pieces so the congress can understand what happened on that day an...

You have been in the map room. you both have been in the map room. it's where fdr tracked the progress of world war ii. they transformed it into an operations center for the campaign. and you see them looking distraught after first looking so happy, distraught as the election results start to turn sour. this points to the fact that there is a photographer there. the photographs belong to the u.s. taxpayers. they are part of the document request that congress has made, part of this fight over executive privilege. and could be quite illuminating, the photos and obviously the outtakes of the vide...

Of went over the top, according to the judge. they warned if the document request was not blocked, it would open the door to partisanship. the judge told him to dial down his rhetoric, especially as she and the lawyers for congress pointed out most of the documents being requested actually belong to the presidency, the office of the president, and not the individual himself. of course, trump is looking to block 700 pages. that includes records and working papers from his top advisors. it relates -- those papers remit to his false claims that the election was stolen and detail the response to t...

A right to withhold it. well, i don't think that is going to hold up. i think the judge sounds like she was trying to narrow the breadth of the inquiry or the request for documents a little bit but she is not buying that because this was a very unusual, if an insurrection isn't criminal it is certainly out of all boundaries of democracy. that's pretty hard privilege to claim you can't let the congress see that material. >> and the judge as you know called the january 6 committee's document request alarmingly broad which feeds into the trump team's argument this is just a fishing expedition. th...