One reason: Recent evidence, including footage from British director Alex Holder, who is due to speak to the committee on Thursday. According to Politico, Thompson described the video he had seen as “important”, but declined to give further details. Deadline may reveal that the three-part series – Unprecedented – has been purchased by Discovery +. We understand that the former BBC executive, Greg Sanderson, who was previously the executive producer of the documentary Storyville on the British public broadcaster, was collaborating with Holder on the project. “Holder said in a statement this week that the plans are for the last six weeks of President Trump’s re-election campaign, as well as plans they have not seen since the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol.” The series includes interviews with Trump, Ivanka’s daughter, sons Eric and Don Jr. and son-in-law Jared Kouchner, as well as Vice President Mike Pence. Holder said he and his team “cooperate fully” with the summons. UPDATE: Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed the story, with a spokeswoman saying: “Alex Holder’s three-part Unprecedented documentary on the 2020 election will be released on Discovery + later this summer. “By showing footage you have never seen from the Trump family during the election campaign and their reactions to the election result, the documentaries will offer personal and unprecedented interviews with Trump, his family and others in the White House.” It was not immediately clear which streaming service had bought the rights to it. What is certainly a bit of a riddle, however, is exactly what is in the documentary and how Holder gained access to Trump and his inner circle. Some members of Trump’s campaign were in the dark that the project existed and even seemed surprised when it came out. But it’s the kind of new upheaval that potentially puts more weight on the commission as it opposes Trump, as their hearings so far have had some of the biggest impact with the release of audio and video clips. Some are known: The New York Times reported on Tuesday that in an interview, Ivanka Trump seems to support her father’s pursuit of false allegations of electoral fraud, saying she “must take on this fight.” The Times also reported that the director had access to the Trump family through Jason Greenblatt, who was then the White House envoy to the Middle East. CBS News’ Robert Costa reports that Holder has 11 hours of interviews with the Trump family from September 2020 to January 2021. On CBS Evening News on Wednesday, Costa also featured photos of Holder interviewing him. Trump and Ivanka Trump. Holder suggested that one reason so little attention was paid to the project was that, due to the sale of the footage, “it did not previously have the legal authority to publish the material or discuss the work in public.” Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), a member of the committee, said he was aware of the video when “someone who knew the information contacted me, wrote me a letter and at least that was how I got on the trail. There may have been other contacts. ” He declined to say if it was the director who contacted him. Holder is perhaps best known as the producer of the documentary Keep Quiet, about the leader of Hungary’s far-right Conservative Party, who, after expressing anti-Semitic beliefs, discovers that he is of Jewish descent. The film made its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016. His lawyer did not comment on the commission’s decision to co-operate with the summons. While there have been legal battles in the past for documentary filmmakers delivering reports and other footage to courts and other government agencies, the January 6 Commission secured not only the cooperation of Holder but also of Nick Questd, who testified at his first audition for his work. for the far right The Proud Boys. In December, the Press Freedom Committee and 55 media outlets urged the January 6 Commission to withdraw a summons from a freelance photojournalist, arguing that such files were protected by the First Amendment. But Katie Townsend, legal director at the Committee of Journalists, said the situation with these documentary filmmakers was different because they chose to comply. “They may have decided it was smart to do it or they did a moral thought to comply,” he said, adding that the video was about “a unique event in American history.” He also said that their cooperation should not be a precedent for future cases. “Not only is it not a precedent for other filmmakers, but I do not think it is necessarily a precedent for these individual filmmakers,” he said.
