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On the events leading up to and most importantly, the events taking place during the attack on the capitol. joining us now cnn legal analyst, former u.s. ambassador and former house judiciary special counsel in trump's first impeachment trial, norm eisen. i guess i want to get through the legalism indications firsthand. the supreme court basically said we don't even have to decide whether or not a former president has the right to executive privilege if the current president doesn't think so. we don't have to decide that because the appeals court on the merits of the case, said even if trump w...

Address what happened on january 6th, 2021 and the days leading up to it, but the next time donald trump or someone like him is on the ballot. >> well, ding, ding, ding. michael, the coup is not under investigation. we're at the one-year anniversary. i think matt said it in the kindest way possible. but what congressman just described the is the third ring. the plan on paper to overturn the will of the voters. the calls to brad raffensperger. to the michigan state election official. i know we know a lot about what donald trump did. he had a bunch of leakers and attention seekers and on fox new...

This means meadows may escape what another reluctant reference, jeffrey clark, is headed toward, a contempt vote. all of it as a hearing today could pave the way for the release of any records from former president trump's time in the white house related to the insurrection. he's been in a legal battle for months to keep that stuff secret. i want to bring in pete williams and garrett haake. garrett, let me start with you. walk us through what we know about meadows level of cooperation. any indication that the threat of a contempt referral may be what sparked this from him? >> reporter: by pars...

Trump to keep documents the january 6th wants out of the committee's hands. in other words, donald trump wants the biden white house to use executive privilege to keep that stuff secret. president biden and his lawyers are saying no way. all of that developing as we are getting new word from the january 6th committee about who is engaging on the subpoenas they issued and who is not, along with what is next. and whose statement i just got from one of the people you just saw, i will read it to you live on the air. we are live with that new reporting from the white house and on capitol hill, and ...

Know, judges are required to move overnight on attempts by the white house to keep stuff secret from the congress. but right now our recourse is litigation. litigation, of course, is slow. and when you are in the face of a possible constitutional crisis, slow litigation is a pretty unsatisfying remedy. >> all right. congressman jim himes, we'll be following this as slow as it takes. thank you very, very much. and still ahead, russia may have pioneered election sbees , interference, but as we head closer to 2020 they are no longer alone. the fbi says china and iran are also getting in on the ...