Trump’s lawyer, Justin Clark, did not give all required information to the House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6 uprising.

US District Judge Tanya Chutkan is considering the Republican former president´s arguments that phone call records, visitor logs and other materials requested by the Democratic-led committee should be kept confidential.

Clark said the committee’s requests were invalid because they were unrelated to any legislation being considered by Congress.

Chutkan signaled skepticism of that argument, saying “the Jan. 6 riot happened in the Capitol” so Congress had an interest in investigating the attack.

Chutkan seemed particularly inclined to let the committee see Trump’s visitor logs from his final weeks in office.

“We’re not talking about your client’s banking records from before he became president,” the judge said to Clark. “We’re talking about documents that are quintessentially about government business.”

In a potentially positive development for Trump, the judge said some of the committee’s document requests “seem to be very, very broad” and may need to be narrowed.

During the hearing, Chutkan asked House lawyer Douglas Letter why the committee needed Trump campaign polling data from as early as April 2020.

Letter said the data would shed light on when and why Trump decided to amplify false claims that the November 2020 election was rigged against him. But Chutkan responded that there “must be some limit” to the documents the committee can seek.

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