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conversations and his actions on or around january 6th. the doj's preemptive move is the clearest sign yet that federal investigators are closing in on trump's efforts to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power. also, cnn has learned the january 6th committee plans to share 20 transcripts with justice department investigators. >> the committee also seems to be zeroing in on former trump cabinet officials, of particular interest conversations about possibly invoking the 25th amendment to remove trump from office. "washington post" reports texts from ken cuccinelli and chad wo...

House tapes, the courts have basically said it is a balanbalanceing act. executive privilege versus the right of a grand jury to get access to evidence about a crime, as pointed out by mulvaney, i would say trump's executive privilege rights are very weak, given he's no longer even the president. and conversely the rights of the grand jury to investigate the worst insurrection against the capitol since 1814 are pretty strong. so we don't have to be litigated, but i would bet that the courts will basically say, no, executive privilege doesn't count here. you got to testify. >> look, we don't kn...

Was doing that investigation and presenting it in the white house. i don't want to waste our time arguing about this, the fact is they were invited to participate in the judiciary committee's processes through the house and they have not done so thus far. when it comes to the obstruction issue, the other articles of impeachment, congressman, given that these witnesses and these documents have been blocked and your body, congress, has the not only the authority but the constitutionally mandated duty to oversee the executive branch, if that's being blocked by this white house, how does one then ...

To stop the testimony? >> reporter: executive privilege is almost a nixon era rule that came about during the nixon watergate investigation to allow the president to keep his conversations private in the executive branch. there are some who say he waived executive privilege rights because he talked about conversations with james comey on twitter and interviews. the white house so far is saying they don't know whether he will invoke executive privilege and leaving it up to white house counsel. there are a number of reasons he may not want to as well. it is a p.r. problem. the white house wants ...