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Book at him for the privileges that he waved in his book. we can't do enough, and adam schiff legislation, by the way, protecting our democracy act, we will vote on that tomorrow. and that creates effect track to get to the court on the subpoenas. >> and congressman ted lieu, i mentioned this before in the discussion this week. some of the biggest prosecutions in america legal history. the defenses never cooperated. they have to build a case without getting the criminals themselves to tell their story. and that has been done and there are ways to do that. and this committee can do that. so as ...

She's not having it and her last words i'll rule expeditiously which must have sent a chill down the spib of the president and his former lawyers and if it turns out as we feexpect is will go on apoel and the court must need to state matter. don't fall for trump's delay game. >> one of the things that we've learned that has come out of these documents or would be turned over to the house should it had go in favor of the committee is there's three handwritten notes. three handwritten knows and two pages lifting briefings which seems so crucial to investigators so if they try to keep the documen...

Appeals. and will they also be conscious of the time line, move quickly? they haven't done it in the past. to the extent it is a delay game, the question will be, will the court of appeals play along with trump or not? >> betsy, we talked about what it means as the judge denies executive privilege claims for the former president. what does it mean though for someone like steve bannon who has cited trump's executive privilege claim as a reason for his own refusal to comply with the subpoena from the committee? >> if the judge holds that trump does not have the ability to assert executive privil...

Privilege. the confidentiality that the law enshrines for presidential communications. but chris, when you look at the underlying purpose of this committee and the law that applies, that you need to have a valid legislative purpose, what could be more important than investigating an insurrection against the united states? so clearly this is not overbroad. they're doing their job. and then on executive privilege, the complaint talks again and again about the president. but donald trump is not the president. joe biden is the president. joe biden is the one who decides whether to apply these conf...

People that do not want to cooperate, as they will show on tuesday night, they're not afraid to take the step of criminal contempt which they will do with the former trump ally steve bannon. ryan nobles, cnn on capitol hill. cnn analyst told us earlier why trump may be using this latest lawsuit as a delay tactic. take a listen. >> donald trump is not the president. joe biden is the president. joe biden is the one who decides whether to apply these confidentiality rules, and he said no as to the initial set of documents. so i don't think it will work. and as you point out, it's a delay game. ...