What's the Jan. 6 committee looking for in Trump's White House records?
Donald Trump,January 6 Committee
The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump is seeking hundreds of pages of records from the Republican former president’s final months in the White House.
Trump is fighting the requests and has appealed a U.S. judge's decision here to allow the National Archives to release the documents, citing executive privilege here.
Here is an explanation of what the congressional committee is seeking, and what could happen next.
WHAT RECORDS HAS THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE ASKED FOR?
The U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee has requested a trove of documents including White House visitor logs, schedules, call records and handwritten notes from Trump’s then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
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