privilege, i think as we talk about what these conversations could be between pat cipollone s attorneys and the doj, that grand jury, i should say, what is covered by executive privilege? just remind us here. what conversations could potentially be covered. what we know is that pat cipollone and others have claimed executive privilege to allow them basically to avoid answering questions about conver conversations, private conversations they claim they had with donald trump leading up to and including on january 6. we know with respect to the january 6 committee that pat cipollone, although he appeared before that committee, that he used executive privilege oftentimes to avoid answering specific questions. and this is going to test, quite frankly, whether that privilege holds now that we know that there is a grand jury, a criminal investigation taking place with respect to donald trump. these conversations that pat cipollone s attorneys are having with the doj presumably des
criminal investigation taking place with respect to donald trump. these conversations that pat cipollone s attorneys are having with the doj presumably designed again for him to limit the kinds of information that he gives to this grand jury. but i don t think that he is going to have the same luxury that he had when testifying before the january 6 committee. i don t think that he will be afforded that same luxury with respect to this grand jury investigation. how significant is this subpoena? put that in context for us if you could. this is huge. when you think about someone in trump s inner, inner circle, being subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury, a criminal investigation that reaches into the inner circle of the white house, i know because donald trump is under so many investigations it is somewhat it has become somewhat normalized, but if we think about other presidential administrations, i think that gives us some sense of the
think that text messages that would reveal information in terms of what was going on, what these high level officials, government officials were saying to each other, how they were communicating with each other, the fact that those text messages were erased or somehow disposed of again just speaks to the enormity of the circumstances, the situation that we find ourselves in with respect to donald trump. we know certain member of the january 6 committee are calling on the inspector general with respect to the secret service at least to be discharged, to be released from his duties because of the failure to preserve text messages. i don t think this is the end. i think this is the beginning of yet what will be perhaps another investigation into how these text messages were handled, why they weren t reserved and who is going to be held accountable and again, potentially criminally accountable for the destruction of these text messages. key too of course hose