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Go further i should note i am told theres an indication that there will be some kind of response from former president trump, and dont know when that will come up. tell us more about what the white house is saying? the white house secretary confirming this and saying it will be taken on a case by case basis, right? >> thats right. the white house telegraphed this was the direction they were heading to, and i think there are two important things that we have reported now as it relates to what hap...

Federal government since the civil war. >> this is the first set of documents and will evaluate case by case basis but the president is clear that he believes it to be of the utmost importance to have an understanding of the events of that day. >> reporter: the committee made 12 pages of demands to the archives in august and while unclear which documents have been cleared by the biden white house to give the wide ranging request included call logs and schedules from trumps family members on janu...

Thank you so much. lets get more on this with the chief political analyst gloria borger and senior legal analyst laura coats. great to see you both. laura, president biden isnt asserting executive privilege. former president trump said he is. help us understand. does trump have any standing here? what do you think will happen? >> remember that executive privilege belongs to the person in charge of the expectative branch. president joe biden. but they did assert they would think about doing so on...

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 also been clear that he believes it to be of the utmost importance of congress and the american people to have a complete understanding of the events of that day to prevent them from happening again. >> so making clear again that this is on a case by case basis. we should note this initial set is a requ...

As well. mark meadows, dan scavino, steve bannon and cash patel have been ordered to turn over documents by next week and all are ordered to appear for depositions the following week put it at the 14th or 15th of october. looming over everything, question of whether and however those records from the trump white house make their way to the january 6th select committee investigating the insurrection while the expresident, donald trump, said he intends to invoke executive privilege to stop his rec...

Trust them to govern or trust them to honor an election result again. >> the biden administration seems to have clarified today that they will review what they -- they used the phrase on case by case basis, claims of executive privilege when it comes to handing over documents to the -- to the committee. what are you expecting as the responsible froech to in. >> that is the responsible approach. what would be irresponsible would be to give donald trump any benefit of the doubt or to, you know, ha...

To go to phils point. whether they had the credibility inside the fbi to be believed and what some question whether the fbi had gotten the information that this assault was unfolding, but didnt believe what the informant was telling him from the ground. so there are a lot of issues here and i think well get to the executive privilege further down the line, i would imagine. when the white house decides whether it has enough that it must, that it should override executive privilege. >> as we heard...

Seek, as was alluded to, by the chair today, criminal contempt proceedings from a department of -- justice that will treat this as they treat any other lawful subpoena that is not honored, and of course to press the case in the courts knowing that, on the mcgahn case at least, we now have recent president that they should testify. as i said, lawrence, they have time on their. side it is important that if -- before we go into another major election, the country knows just to these people are and ...

Wondering, the data is still, you know, sketchy on the long-term impact and usefulness of the existing vaccines we have. is it your sense that theyre good for life or in reality, that were going to have to check back every couple of years? >> its unlikely that theyre probably good for life because we know that were already seeing breakthrough infections in the elderly group weve seen some that led to the booster recommendations. i think there are some with a second generation thats more robust. ...

Violating womens constitutional rights and as we see in other parts of the world, afghanistan. it sad these political battles are being fought on the bodies of women and their families. its really, really troubling in this moment for human rights not just womens rights. >> youre absolutely right. the notion, kim, of having to try to achieve equality on a case by case basis, thats not the way a democracy can actually work and as they say, its only republic if you can keep it. not a way to keep it...