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Its ultimately important for people to understand and remember that january 6 was an incredibly dark day, one of the darkest days in our democracy. there was an insurrection on the nations capitol. were talking about getting to the bottom of that. doesnt everybody want to get to the bottom of? democrats, republicans, everybody. were going to assess and review as is standard the documents and any efforts to expert this on a case by case basis. well update you as the processes proceed and well con...

>> since august 6th the biden administration released immigrants into the country that allows them to apply for work permits. its supposed to be on a case by case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons. urgent. not done there. since march 20th they released 94,570 into the country with notice to report. they are told to report to an i.c.e. office within 60 days in a city of their choosing. thats what happened in del rio, texas, on one day 180 single

Biden should have taken more of a hands-off approach here and thats what you would have done if you wanted to take more of a hands-off approach. i think what he said is that i approve of democrats using this issue going forward politically to gain an upper hand on republicans in gup upcoming -- upcoming elections. i think thats what he was indicating here. chris: what he said was the national archive can turn over 48 or 50 records, hes going to take it on a case by case basis but he said hand ov...

Biden should have taken more of a hands-off approach here and thats what you would have done if you wanted to take more of a hands-off approach. i think what he said is that i approve of democrats using this issue going forward politically to gain an upper hand on republicans in gup upcoming -- upcoming elections. i think thats what he was indicating here. chris: what he said was the national archive can turn over 48 or 50 records, hes going to take it on a case by case basis but he said hand ov...

The senate that. dick durbins got the long face. the return of trump. and it aint going to be in 2024. its going to be in 2022 or maybe before. as we start the decertification process out in arizona. >> you never know where hes going to be from one day to the other on the trump -- on trump. so listen, the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection got a major boost from the biden administration, which is refusing to assert executive privilege on the first batch of document...

>> 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. we will evaluate questions of privilege on a case by case basis but the president has been clear that he believes it to be of the utmost importance for congress and the american people to have a complete understanding of the events of that day to prevent them from happening again. >> so the disg...

Decided, the way he did, on this tranche of documents. >> i mean, i think it was unsurprising, right? we expect as things move on, that the biden administration is not likely to exert executive privilege for the former presidents, and for his aides. but when they continue to say is that this is by a case by case basis, a big part of that is to make sure that when its time for the biden administration to exert executive privilege over their own things. they havent softened what that means. but th...

History would suggest that biden waived the executive privilege in this instance doesnt mean that every subsequent -- because the fear, of course, for the people in this administration or democrats would be, well, that would mean that, were donald trump to be reelected or the next republican to be reelected, they could use the same weapon against democrats, right? it could come back to haunt them. history suggests that some presidents have protected the executive privilege of their predecessors ...

Executive privilege should not be used to shield from congress or the public information that reflects a clear and apparent effort to subvert the constitution itself. a reference to efforts to overturn the election. and white house press secretary jen psaki echoed that sentiment as well. >> there are moments throughout history where presidents and white houses have asserted executive privilege we will continue to evaluate those on a case by case basis, but this committee is investigating a dark ...

Unusual, so unorthodox and unprecedented that the biden administration did not feel it was necessary to invoke executive privilege as to those documents. although they reserve the right to do so on a case by case basis in the future. >> so juanita, this strikes me here, from a political standpoint, where does the rest of the political party stand on this kind of lawsuit? are they going outside? good for them strategically to say yes, we want donald trump to sue congress and we want donald trump ...