President Biden has instructed the National Archives to release visitor logs from the Trump White House in the next 15 days to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Former President Donald Trump had claimed the records — which show dates and times of appointments people make to enter the White House complex — were subject to executive privilege.
But White House counsel Dana Remus said in a letter to the Archives that the Biden administration routinely releases the logs, as did the Obama administration.
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