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One of the things that they ask about in all these -- a lot of these document requests is about the 25th amendment and the mental state of the president. and i think this -- this -- this all raises those questions. >> you know, what -- >> seriously? >> -- what's interesting is, you know, you can imagine him in this meeting just kind of watching it all play out. and with the idea of, you know, maybe he thinks these people are nuts but he also thinks, you know what? maybe, let's just see how it all plays out. you know, just as he watched the capitol being attacked, and didn't do anything for so ...

Have made some progress in recent weeks putting together a better portrait of trump inside the white house on january 6 and who vuz itted with him. in doing so they relied in part on lower level staff members. document requests and the testimony of hundreds of witnesses is allowing the committee do an end run around the trump dead enders. and in the case of the latter text messaging including of meadows to the committee before that sudden about face revealed that the white house chief of staff was a clearinghouse for half-baked ideas how to go about overturning a election. "the washington post...

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Supreme court to block the committee's access to documents that were relevant and some of them from the day, january 6. do you believe that this is an issue that the court should take up? >> well it is unfortunate that had to get to the courts when you have a former president of the united states who doesn't want to respond to lawmaker subpoenas and hide information that the public and the congress has a right and an obligation to be able to review. it said a lot about the former president and about what they have to hide and what they are nervous about the public and congress seeing. but what...

That call happens. that's the kind of news we like in a holiday week, thank you so much. >> thanks, alison. the house committee investigating the january 6th attack reaching an agreement with the white house to defer some document requests. the biden administration raised questions about some of the material that the committee requested that didn't involve the events of january 6th. joining me now is joyce vance, an nbc news legal analyst, i'm thrilled to see you today. he amounted not to invoke presidential privilege for some of this, what is your biggest take away from this new move? >> th...