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Committee is simply giving away too much ground. >> well, so, executive privilege has been litigated in terms of documents. it hasn't exactly been litigated in terms of conversations yet. so it may be that the committee doesn't feel like they have any avenue to get that stuff right now. >> reporter: it's possible. but you're right, the committee won a big court battle on the executive privilege issue in the national archives documents case. now, that wouldn't necessarily apply to these conversations. i think the committee would very likely when. that whole court battle, start to finish, took t...

Would love to hear his side of the story but they have hesitated to send an invitation. does now seem like the right time to do just that? >> one suspects that there's a little behind-the-scenes dance going on because the former vice president's aides have testified. we've seen reporting from the committee that they were willing to share communications and talk about impressions, but they drew the line at talking about the former vice president's and perhaps their own actual communications with trump. and they gave a reason for that. they said that they did so at the request of the former pres...

California, also chair of the house administration committee. thank you for joining us, as wells we appreciate it. it's great to see you on a sunday afternoon. let's talk first about the national archives material you're receiving from florida. have you seen it yet? how important do you think it is to the investigation? >> well, we don't know because we haven't seen it. but we did ask for everything in the national archives related to january 6th and events leading up to the 6th. the process is the archives identifies that, president biden reviews whether he thinks it's suitable to be turned o...

Mark meadows. we know the department justice is considering whether or not to move forward with an indictment for mark meadows. there's a lot of work ahead for them as they continue the fact finding. >> i assume we have not found any followup from the doj? >> it's going to be a couple weeks on that end. it's a difficult question because of the executive privilege issue. the fact that he's a former member. it's going to take a while. >> pete williams and sahil and anna, thank you all so much. happy holidays. >> you, too. and marathon question time. russian president vladimir putin honing his ...

Would suspect is they are trying to figure out what the court of appeals is going to say on executive privilege issue. want time for that opinion to come out because if the court of appeals or the supreme court does not weigh in on this and says there's no valuable claim of privilege here then bannon's claims go away. you want to put it far enough out to let the weigh in, but for a july when the simple elements are there. a congressional subpoena was issued. you failed to comply. you've said you failed to comply and have no basis for doing so, that is a real cut and dry case but they want to p...