Jan. 6 Panel Temporarily Pauses Request For Some Trump WH Docs

The House Jan. 6 select committee has delayed its request to President Joe Biden's team for about 50 pages worth of Trump-era White House documents that the National Archivist has already approved for the panel to obtain.

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The committee told Politico that it wants to avoid wasting time on potentially having to negotiate over documents that could actually be protected by executive privilege, as ex-president Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed.

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One of the members of the panel, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), told Politico that "we're in a hurry."

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"We don't want to get hung up," she said.

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Fellow committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin (R-MD) told Politico that the temporary pause was merely "a process of give and take" in the panel's discussions with Biden's team on releasing the documents.

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The committee is "not acknowledging privilege in any of these cases," especially because Biden has not asserted executive privilege, Raskin said.

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He added: "We don't think that trying to overthrow the U.S. government is something that triggers executive privilege. It's hard to see that as part of the official duties of a president."

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It's unclear if the Biden White House had recommended the pause or if the committee made the decision alone.

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The President has shot down Trump's requests to invoke executive privilege over records in the panel's investigation several times already, leading the former president to file a lawsuit against the committee and the National Archives.