Transcripts for CNN New Day With John Berman and Brianna Kei

CNN New Day With John Berman and Brianna Keilar October 19, 2021 10:04:00

trial and was found not guilty. she was acquitted. she said she was too sick, couldn't afford the plane ticket out. the jury sympathized with her. since then, this has not been charged criminally. we've seen over the last decade four different people who the house voted for contempt but doj voted not to or decided not to charge them. now, why is that? doj has a policy that says we generally should not be charging executive branch officials, all four these folks were executive branch officials. two were the attorney general. awkward for doj to prosecute its own poss. >> separate but seriously connected to this is the battle over executive privilege. former president donald trump suing the national archives to block the release of documents that the committee wants. what is the legal argument there? >> donald trump has put in his lawsuit. we're headed potentially for a major showdown here. trump makes three arguments in his motion. first of all, he says this subpoena for documents is an attempt to intimidate and

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