here, what could be more compelling than the need to get to information about an attack on our democracy in which people died and the need to protect the country going forward? but we'll see whether mr. meadows is acting in good faith or whether he, in fact, is using just another stratagem to avoid having to provide incriminating evidence against his former boss. >> look, i'm not sure i've ever seen anyone downplaying information or refuting information in their own book. mark meadows has written this book about his time at the white house. does that undermine his claim that his experience there is protected by executive privilege? i was talking about, you know, when i said that, i was talking about the covid -- you know, the president getting covid. but does that undermine his claim that he's protected by executive privilege when he has written a book about his time working in the white house? >> absolutely. and in particular if he's written anything about january