White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki responds to a question about whether the Biden administration will turn over documents about former President Donald Trump's activities on January 6.

 Q    So, I’ll try to ask a question.  Can you confirm that the White House is authorizing the National Archives to turn over documents covering all communications related to Trump’s activities on January 6th?

MS. PSAKI:  The administration takes the events of January 6th incredibly seriously, as the President said on its six-month anniversary.  That day posed an ext- — existential crisis and a test of whether our democracy could survive.  It was, in many respects, a unique attack on the foundations of our democracy. 

The President is dedicated to ensuring that something like that could never happen again, which is why the administration is cooperating with ongoing investigations, including the January 6th Select Committee to bring to light what happened.

As a part of this process, the President has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not warranted for the first set of documents from the Trump White House that have been provided to us by the National Archives.

As we’ve said previously, this will be an ongoing process, and this is just the first set of documents.  And we will evaluate questions of privilege on a case-by-case basis. 

But the President has also been clear that he believes it to be of the utmost importance for both Congress and the American people to have a complete understanding of the events of that day to prevent them from happening again.