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President, but to protect the office of the presidency and the republic. of course as we learned in the u.s. versus nixon case back in the watergate era, executive privilege is not absolute. and it was yield in theres a greater interest. president biden has said theres a greater interest here in learning what happened in the january six insurrection, that any executive privilege. ultimately we are going to hear from people like jeffrey clark and others about what happened in those days leading u...

Greater interest. president biden has said theres a greater interest here in learning what happened in the january 6th insurrection than any executive privilege. i think ultimately were going to hear from people like jeffrey clark and others about what happened in the days leading up to january 6th. >> theres also a big show down scheduled for tomorrow on bannon, and i wanted to talk about this. so theres four people that were initially subpoenaed, meadows, dan scavino, cash patel, and steve ban...

>> dow just crossed 24,000 moments ago, record high. and to the white house, if youre watching, if were missing something here, i ask on a daily basis, if someone could help me understand why carried interest is still in there, an absolute giveaway to private equity guys. please explain it. again to the white house, for me, this is now day 154 since ive requested an interview with one of the architects of the tax reform plan. we would like to have a better understanding of what this plan is. ple...

Yes. but our business is very much about the cult of celebrity and sadly has become more so in recent years. decline of local news. decline of funding for the kind of journalism that we all here want to be doing, want to be continuing to doing. that funding has decreased. networks have had to pump their money behind stars to draw rating, to draw advertising, to keep this business going. it is a culture that has become toxic in some respects. we have to learn these lessons and address culture as ...

And some things that are untrue but broadly says, look, this is something i was guilty of, whatever the various allegations are. >> well, i mean, listen, these stories, these situations do become a runaway train. bre brett, i want to share what the "new york times" called this, quote, a failure of the network news star system. and they list. "the times" says its, quote, ripping down the edifice of the old television news patriarchy in the process. is this just the beginning of what were seeing a...

Case, to neglect very credible allegations of misbehavior. in this case, with matt lauer, it seems we didnt have those allegations before, but i think theres something salutary in simply not having these multimillion vehicles for entire networks prosperity. because that simply creates financial incentives to try to sweep these things under the rug. now were in kind of a tidal waive moment which is incredibly salutary but if we return to the old system, im not sure that this is going to continue ...