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Democracy about that even includes provisions about strengthening congress's ability to enforce its subpoenas. so there are things that congress is considering legislatively to reign in a future executive that abuses that office. and so, it -- it really will be on the courts to dismiss this case based on lack of merit. >> carl, i mean, do you -- do you see this stall tactic by the former president as being successful? midterms are, you know, just more than a year away. >> it certainly could be successful if the republicans win the house of representatives, and decide to shut down this investig...

Work. >> first of all, we know executive privilege is a qualified privilege, whoever invokes it. it can be balanced against the person who wants to hold it or it cannot be. i think in this instance they're going to lose. this is an investigation of an insurrection. executive privilege doesn't cover that kind of behavior. that's clearly why the white house has said we're not putting any executive privilege on this first batch of documents that have been requested from the national archives and that is going to undercut it for whoever else tries to rely on it. so, pam, i don't think it's going t...

Balanced against the person who wants to hold it or it cannot be. i think in this instance, they're going to lose. this is an investigation of a insurrection. executive privilege doesn't cover that kind of behavior. that's clearly why the white house has said we're not putting any executive privilege on this first batch of documents that have been requested from the national archives. and that is going to undercut it for whoever else tries to rely on it. so, pam, i don't think it's going to work. i think it's a stall tactic. and it's an effort to make these more protracted and maybe go away if...

Biden is not going to invoke executive privilege. we know the 1/6 committee chairman is talking about holding the trump people in criminal contempt. are you sensing a tougher stance from the democratic party? what do you hear from the select committee and people around the white house? >> the select committee wants answers and they don't want to wait and they will not sit for what they view as a stall tactic. of course, it could take weeks or months for some of this to be battled out in court. the threat of criminal contempt is real and it is a very, very painful potential sword they can use. ...

Privilege isn't for the benefit of any one president. it is for the benefit of the presidency, and so it is the current elected president who gets to decide that. the prior president can make a recommendation, but only the current president can invoke the privilege, and so steve bannon is right now in contempt of this order. now, what he seems to be saying to me is, i'm not going to do this until i hear from a judge in court. and so i imagine that if the justice department were tried to enforce this criminally, then steve bannon would raise some kind of defense before a court on executive priv...