election, the will of the people, and electoral college as well. so the fact that he, who you know in recent weeks has tried to sue and block the actual subpoenas introducing his telephone data and other respects because he believed that this was not a legitimate exercise of legislative authority on behalf of the select committee and that his fourth amendment rights to privacy were being violated. of course this all goes back to the idea of remember the person who was really the last line of ideological defense here was the then vice president mike pence who decided not to go along and take the advice that was erroneous in the first instance. now remember he doesn t have the same protection he had even a week ago when you ve got the supreme court now saying anyone who is interested in trying to raise a privilege claim, no. it is no longer valid. there is an overwhelming interest in the public s ability to get the information, have transparency. and so this is not boding well for anyone
then vice president mike pence who decided not to go along and take the advice that was erroneous in the first instance. now remember he doesn t have the same protection he had even a week ago when you ve got the supreme court now saying anyone who is interested in trying to raise a privilege claim, no. it is no longer valid. there is an overwhelming interest in the public s ability to get the information, have transparency. and so this is not boding well for anyone who wants to put up additional road blocks. what we might learn from his data, he has told through his attorney, that the person he was acting on behalf of was then president trump. that s extraordinary at this point in time. one of the first indications we have where someone is saying they re acting at the direction or in the representation of donald trump. that is a really big connection to make for this committee. and tonight s edition of elections have consequences. i want to get your take on the supreme court announc
the court s decision was a brutal and personally stinging loss for trump. in the argument his own lawyers advanced may have made the defeat worse. the justices relied solely on reasoning that trump s claims were so paltry, his privilege arguments so weak, that trump would have lost even were he still in office. the result was an even more devastating rejection of trump s privilege claim. in effect, an unambiguous, blanket holding by the supreme court that presidents who incite insurrections in office don t get to invoke executive privilege. good work, team trump. a grateful country salutes you. i mean they were their own worst enemy, joe. it is as if they laid it out for everybody to really be able to pick through and make the claim against the president. yeah. time and time again his lawyers were his own worst enemies.
president s responsibilities as present of the senate and certifying the vote of presidential electors on january 6th. and we now know that the archives has acknowledged that request and is going to fulfill that request. now it s up to former president donald trump to try to stop it as we know he has done in the courts before, but he s not won in those court cases. so within a month they could be getting these documents. let me pick up on that point with danny because, danny, we ve seen this movie play out before. the former president s team trying to stop the release of these documents, trying to raise this privilege claim. wouldn t work then. why would it be different now? it feels like ground-hog day, that s true. in this case you may see president trump again challenge the release of these records possibly based on privilege, but it seems that the courts do this as they did many years ago when executive privilege was defined, so to speak, that a former
drop a company, public or private, i mean financially, that s kind of the death knell for most companies. legally this is a huge significant thing, because donald trump is under investigation for exactly what mazars is saying with they re concerned about, get over inflation and under-reporting of his assets at various times. let me ask you about another adviser to the former president, he s been trying to shield thousands of pages, claiming attorney client privilege. here s politico and with a road quote, a house specifically asking eastman to furnish documents that would detail his attorney client relationship with trump or his presidential campaign in the closing weeks of 2020. as trump s turn overturning the election grew increasingly desperate. what would be needed for a privilege claim to stand up or is eastman just trying to run off the clock until after the midterms? probably the latter, but i think eastman faces a real problem, because today chris, a