obliged to provide. or to take all other steps available to us to get that testimony. congressman schiff as you know has said he believes your committee will receive documents related to the insurrection, quote, very soon. but the former president has made a claim of executive privilege over many records and a letter to the national archives. that claim is obviously dubious because he is not the sitting president. but if the national archives doesn t want to wade into the middle of this, a, do they have that option? and what can you do to actually get those records? well, i don t think they have the option. the statute s pretty clear. the existing president has blessed the deliverance of this material to us. the former president has an opportunity to look at it, but he doesn t really have a say in it. he s a litigious person. we know that. but there s no real ambiguity in the statute, and i expect that we will get this information. you served with mark meadows in in the house.
they will not go easy on the four top aides and allies of the former president if they fail to give depositions this coming thursday and friday. house select committee member adam schiff spoke about it on cnn. late today, he spelled it out even more. we re not messing around. if people don t show up, if people don t provide the documents they re compelled to, we intend to take up criminal contempt and refer to the justice department. and we expect that it will be prosecuted. that, unlike the last administration, no one is above the law. and and so, we intend to move quickly. this morning on cnn, he called this moment a, quote, test of democracy. details from a fresh account of the day only amplified that moment from a new book by abc chief washington correspondent, john carl. here s how his network is reporting on one especially chilling passage about the moments that we re showing you now. and i m quoting from john carl s book. the former president liked what he saw, boasted abo
the committee, would adopt a resolution to refer for criminal contempt. that would not take a long period of time. in order for the referral to proceed, it would have to be a vote on the house. that would not necessarily take a long time. under the the process, the u.s. attorney takes it to a grand jury. there are grand juries sitting, already. so, that wouldn t necessarily take a long time. we expect the justice department to uphold the rule of law, to make sure that there s no coverup of misconduct here. and we, in the congress, will proceed as we must, either, to hear the testimony that they are obliged to provide. or to take all other steps available to us to get that testimony. congressman schiff as you know has said he believes your committee will receive documents related to the insurrection, quote, very soon.
house lawmakers investigating january s attack on the capitol and democracy say they will not go easy on the four top aides and allies of the former president if they fail to give depositions this coming thursday and friday. house select committee member adam schiff spoke about it on cnn. late today, he spelled it out even more. we re not messing around. if people don t show up, if people don t provide the documents they re compelled to, we intend to take up criminal contempt and refer to the justice department. and we expect that it will be prosecuted. that, unlike the last administration, no one is above the law. and and so, we intend to move quickly. this morning on cnn, he called this moment a, quote, test of democracy. details from a fresh account of the day only amplified that moment from a new book by abc chief washington correspondent, john carl. here s how his network is
slaughtereded. you have nothing for us. get to the back. cell phone video capturing the exact moment a construction site at the hard rock hotel in new orleans came crashing down. announcer: this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. good sunday morning to you. we start today with new reporting on one of the key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry. the washington post says gordon sondland will say that president trump told him what to write denying quid pro quo. it is a main focus point of the impeachment process. sarah westwood is at the white