yeah, sure. so, let s assume there s a legal fight. let s assume that president trump goes to federal court and tries to invoke this former president privilege. i mean, the supreme court said there is such a thing, but again, the view of the current president really matters. and nicole, you re exactly right. this stuff isn t to benefit the republic. let s say you are the president of the united states and i am your senior advisor and we are having conversations about delicate national security matters and you want to keep those private. that s going to fly. the courts are generally going to credit that. and even a even if you become a former president, nicole, a successor president is going to see it in the same way. that s the benefit the republic. the stuff that happened here, not just trying to overturn the results of an election but the insurrection on january 6th in no way can be construed as something intended to benefit the republic.
yes, it s important to defend executive privilege, particularly when it contains to policy dligs, sensitive activities that a president is going to engage in with his advisers in the oval office. but what we are talking about here is an unprecedented extraordinary assault on our democracy, our electoral system, on the right of the people to choose the next president. that s what donald trump was engaging in on january 6th. i think the biden team is exact low right. they are loolly right and also just morally right, that no country should defend and shield from public scrutiny an effort to engage in a coup. what do you make of the other update that we had this hour, that a few of the subpoenaed witnesses are engaging? they haven t gone all the way to cooperation, but they have engaged or made contact with the committee. looks like mark meadows and cash patel are talking to the committee. i think that s right. it s an important investigation. after all, i think our number
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in texas, a high-profile texas democrat, she did an interview with the texas tribune in which she said that the january 6th attack on the capitol shouldn t have been that much of a surprise. it particularly shouldn t have been that much of a surprise to texans. she had been onboard this biden/harris campaign bus just a few days before the 2020 election. it was october 30th, 2020. the election was four days later, november 3rd. and that campaign bus was heading from san antonio to austin, with a car full of volunteers behind them. a whole crowd of vehicles bearing trump signs and flags surrounded them and tried to run them off the road. this was on interstate 35 in texas.
the broken window. violence and intimidation as a means of trying to either achieve a political end or defeat political processes, they don t go away on their own. violence and intimidation, if you get away with them, they take root. they become the norm. unless they are punished. in this case, the stuff isn t hasn t been punished thus far. in fact, it s been celebrated and encouraged and cheered by the political party it s been designed to benefit. unless this stuff is punished, it is emboldening for the people who get away with it. because they know that intimidation and threats work. after the biden bus was attacked on i-35 just before the election, they didn t do their events that night. you can t blame them, but physical violence and