public, not to protect the person of the president or the former president, and the person who's in a very good position to know whether the republic is being protected is the sitting president. that does give biden, you know, constitutional legal power to say, look, i think it is in the interests of the united states of america. it's not about donald trump really that we find what happened on january the 6th and get to the bottom of this investigation, and certainly democrats would support that. >> now, listen, that's a very good point she's making. is executive privilege about protecting the man or woman or the republic? >> it's always been about protecting the presidency in communications within the presidency, and remember that james madison, the architect of our constitution made the point that the legislature, not the president predominates in our system. yes, we have three equal branches. we learned that in high school, but really the framers of the constitution saw the legislature