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Could this be the year of Toiletgate?
White House staff have claimed Donald Trump flushed documents down the toilets in a new book by US journalist Maggie Haberman.
The development comes amid an ongoing investigation by the US House committee into the US Capitol insurrection.
They've been trying to get Trump to hand over records from his final weeks in office for archiving, but many have been ripped up.
The National Archives has now asked the justice department to investigate if Trump's handling of official papers broke the law.
Washington correspondent Simon Marks spoke to Morning Report.