contempt charges for former trump advisors dan scavino and navaro. give us the latest. if you talk to committee members, both were asked to hand over documents related to the january 6 investigation. they were asked to sit for depositions. both rejected those invitations from the select committee. both claiming that they were protected und prot protected under executive privilege. the committee believe the current white house are the ones to decide whether or not there is a privilege claim. they suspended all claims as it relates to the investigation. therefore, they should comply. this vote was 220-203. along partisan lines. liz cheney and adam kinzinger
but i m going to emily and then nick on this. they say, emily, in the opinion here, which was written here, i want to say, yeah, chief justice writing it. the privilege claim would not succeed even under the nixon and select committee tests. even if donald trump were the incumbent, if he were still president, they agree with the lower courts that it said his claims were so weak, he would not be able to hold back this evidence. your response or analysis of that? well, i think the nixon history is important here, because the reason we have this law from 1978 about the public owning presidential records was concern that congress had about the level of secrecy that president nixon was trying to maintain when he was in office, related to watergate. and the 1970s are the moment, post-nixon, where we get a lot
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 it is no longer valid.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.