Lawmakers defer some Jan. 6 document requests, seek others

By ZEKE MILLER and MARY CLARE JALONICK
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has “deferred” its requests for several dozen pages of Trump administration records at the White House’s urging. But President Joe Biden has again rejected the former president’s invocation of executive privilege on hundreds of additional pages. In a letter to the National Archives and Records Administration, Biden counsel Dana Remus repeated that Biden has determined that an assertion of executive privilege by former President Donald Trump is not in the best interests of the U.S.