>> i'm not sure that jason greenblatt was a backer, i did ask him directly if jason greenblatt conducted any of these interviews that he said jason did not. he also said that he did, alex holder did all of the interviews. now, he said, he took offense to calling it a puff piece and he said he was very direct with him about wanting to spend time and wanted to talk about the administrator in, and the trump legacy. >> we have also been told by folks in the trump world, that they had been told that this was a puff piece, and that they had nothing to worry about and that they had complete editorial control over what went out. you have denied that. right? did they have complete editorial control, or any editorial control? >> no. they have not seen a single frame of my footage. >> ready think that is coming from? >> i have no idea. >> did you sell this to them as i puff up puff piece? >> it's really not. >> do you wish you had pushed them more about a genuine six? >> no. i think there said deserves an audience. at the end of the day, when we started this process, here's a guy from britain intro

i've reached out to jason greenblatt. i haven't heard back.rently this was pitched to the members of the trump family as a favor for jason, and so clearly there is something more there in terms of, like, why he would have been involved in this and why he was able to get the trump family in it. but in terms of the funding, there's still a lot more to find out, and you imagine the committee was asking those questions here today. we hope to learn more, anderson. >> yeah. pamela brown, thank you so much. back now with the team in new york. chris, what do you make of this? >> well, you know, there's been reports that members of the trump world view this with some anxiety. when the story first broke on tuesday, i reached out to somebody who had worked in the trump campaign, not in the trump white house, who said that they -- until that story broke on tuesday -- had had no requested that alex holder was running around the white house and then subsequently mar-a-lago talking to trump and key figures, and they had no idea what had been said. you know,

>> i'm not sure if jason was a backer of it, but i did ask him directly if jason greenblatt conducted any of the interviews. he said jason did not. he said holder did all the interviews. he said he actually took offense to calling it a puff piece. and he said that he was very direct with him about wanting to spend time and wanting to talk about the administration and the trump legacy. here's what he said. >> we also have been told by folks in the trump world that they had been told that this was a puff, puff, puff piece and they had nothing to worry about and they had complete editorial control over what went out. you have denied that, right? did they have complete editorial control or any editorial control over -- >> no, they did not. they have not even seen a single frame of the footage. >> where do you think that is coming from? >> i have no idea. >> did you sell this to them as a puff, puff, puff piece? >> absolutely not. >> do you wish you spoke more about january 6? >> no. i think their side speaks volumes. >> were you surprised they agreed to do this at all considering what was

that this was arranged by jason greenblatt, a former middle east peace envoy.e white house but stayed close to the trump family. he was really the one orchestrating this. and they trusted him. so there weren't really that level of concern about what was going to happen or whether or not this was going to be a tough interview. and i think that could explain why you saw pence sit down with them six days after january 6th happened, and after he had gone several days without speaking to trump. that has been the question coming into focus here about why they sat down for this interview. but then you also hear others down playing it saying they're not that worried about what it's going to look like. though, i should note, of course, it remains to be seen given that some of them don't fully remember everything they said during the interviews. >> identify couple questions about this. first, i find it very hard to believe that any documentary film maker would hand over control and editorial decision making to the subject of the documentary. so maybe they were under the