president except donald trump would ever argue that office's great power or secrecy can be properly exercised to end democracy itself. so that is why there are these reports and a lot of expectations that the biden white house might discard that normal privilege and secrecy and release whatever it has on the most recent occupant of the office who disgraced himself on january 6th. i want to be clear legally the former president donald trump can still fight and test the approach here, he can ask the courts to intervene or recognize an ongoing executive privilege but this is the showdown that many expected when congress did move forward and say they're really going to investigate the heck out of what went down on january 6th. if you think we have the whole story without the subpoenas and investigations done that's unlikely. top investigator adam schiff also saying the committee will go straight to subpoenas for any resistant witnesses. they're not going to wait around. no word on if that might include nancy pelosi's counterpart who was dodging related questions today.