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>> the president has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not warranted for the first set of documents from the trump white house that have been provided to us by the national archives. we will evaluate questions of privilege on a case by case basis but the president has been clear that he believes it to be of the utmost importance for congress and the american people to have a complete understanding of the events of that day to prevent them from happening again. >> so the disgraced twice i'm peeach -- impeached trying to block release of the documents and threatening to sue....

Decided, the way he did, on this tranche of documents. >> i mean, i think it was unsurprising, right? we expect as things move on, that the biden administration is not likely to exert executive privilege for the former presidents, and for his aides. but when they continue to say is that this is by a case by case basis, a big part of that is to make sure that when it's time for the biden administration to exert executive privilege over their own things. they haven't softened what that means. but this white house has a vested interest in helping this january 6th elect committee figure out what h...

History would suggest that biden waived the executive privilege in this instance doesn't mean that every subsequent -- because the fear, of course, for the people in this administration or democrats would be, well, that would mean that, were donald trump to be reelected or the next republican to be reelected, they could use the same weapon against democrats, right? it could come back to haunt them. history suggests that some presidents have protected the executive privilege of their predecessors and some haven't. there have been instances of both. if the system is working well, if the u.s. dem...

Executive privilege should not be used to shield from congress or the public information that reflects a clear and apparent effort to subvert the constitution itself. a reference to efforts to overturn the election. and white house press secretary jen psaki echoed that sentiment as well. >> there are moments throughout history where presidents and white houses have asserted executive privilege we will continue to evaluate those on a case by case basis, but this committee is investigating a dark day in our democracy, an attempt to undermine our constitution and democratic processes by the forme...

Unusual, so unorthodox and unprecedented that the biden administration did not feel it was necessary to invoke executive privilege as to those documents. although they reserve the right to do so on a case by case basis in the future. >> so juanita, this strikes me here, from a political standpoint, where does the rest of the political party stand on this kind of lawsuit? are they going outside? good for them strategically to say yes, we want donald trump to sue congress and we want donald trump to sue the administration? or is this something where they want to back off. let the former presiden...