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mike pence have asked in recent days about conversations with ump from, his lawyers and others in his inner circle who sought to substitute trump allies for certified electors from some states joe biden won. that's according to two people familiar with the matter, both spoke anonymously. prosecutors asked hours of detailed questions about meetings trump led in december 2020 and january 2021. his pressure campaign on pence to overturn the election and what instructions trump gave his lawyers and advisors about fake electors and sending electors back to the states. some of the question...

Extremely high, and that is something that i think is still missing at least in the public hearings and the public presentation so far of what we heard from the january 6th select committee. it's possible that the department of justice has already gathered more information about the direct communications that were taking place with donald trump that could provide more concrete evidence that would help build that criminal case against him, but i think without some of what we've seen, some of these witnesses claim previous executive privilege over, it's going to be extremely challenging to prose...

Still could." very disturbing, indeed. before we continue the conversation, i want to go to our chief white house correspondent, kaitlan collins. she has new information that's just breaking right now on this investigation. what are you learning? >> yeah, wolf. this is really a follow-up to the big development last week when we learned the biden white house was not going to assert executive privilege over the documents related to the trump white house on january 6th. of course, those are documents that lawmakers are seeking as they're investigating what was happening inside the white house on ...

Assert kind privilege on their own. so far that has not happened. they sent us a letter saying they're not going to assert executive privilege over. >> the justice department notified former officials this week that they could testify to the various committees investigating trump's efforts to overturn the election. are we likely to see acting attorney general rosen and his aides call to testify? do you have any reporting on that? >> i think there is a good chance of that happening. again, some of it depends on whether there ends up being a court fight over this. it doesn't appear to be headed ...

Tactic, but in and of itself, a court is not going to have a problem with it. i think the question is going to be in the end, what are they asserting executive privilege over, and that is really the question. are they going to continue asserting it overall or are they going to say there's a small subset of documents and have some justification as to why those are privileged? >> mark preston is here, too, i think, as well. mark, help us understand why -- like does this matter after the supreme court makes its decision? the census bureau is ready either way, right? they've got two versions that ...