vie lating the law. every day. every person who makes a decision like president biden, like judges need to remember that we are dealing with a fa failed coup detat and we need to get the facts because for the first time in the history almost deliberately on the part of the president did not experience a peaceful transfer of power. i want to note you serve on the house intelligence commit tee. played a role in the russia probe and dealt with trying to piece together an invest. what should democrats learn from what you experienced on the committee and what we saw there with the trump white house trying to play out the clock in court? what should democrats do now differently now? exactly. you summarized it perfectly. investigating ukraine and russia, both things that led to
that a future president would then or a future congress trying to investigate him or other democratic precedent given what s at play here? it is a good question. and it s a really hard answer because president trump used every available remedy, all of the things traditionally there to protect things, like the conversations between an adviser and a president, used the remedies not to protect legitimate conversations but to shield himself from liability which is why i go back to the notion that we can t throw out the concept of privilege . what i would expect the white house to do is the biden white house to look to see exactly what the committee wants and where there s a legitimate interest in getting that information. executive privilege doesn t protect criminal activity. it does not.
fight. so the current president, president biden, saying that he will not invoke executive privilege saying he will not shield the trump white house documents from going to the committee calling them unique circumstances but the former president is firing back. he s released the two-page letter to the national archives saying he ll invoke executive privilege and a former president can do and the fight could play out in federal court. reporter: tonight the biden administration is clearing the way for the select committee to get details what was happening inside the white house before and during the insurrection. the white house counsel telling the national archives that president biden will not assert executive privilege over some records from the trump white house since it sheds light on the events in the white house on and about january 6 and bear on the need to understand the facts underlying the most serious attack on the operations of the
colleagues want do go forward it is wrong to obstruct. congress did avert a potential disaster passing a short term fix. as democrats cut a deal with mitch mcconnell. but that short term extension did not resolve the problems. and it also exposed an ongoing rift in the republican party pitting former president trump against minority leader mcconnell. the senate needs new leadership. mitch is not the guy. reporter: trump wanted the gop to hold firm and many sitting senators agreed. we blinked. we have let the people down and made the democrats believe we are all talk and no action. reporter: both parties dealing with factions wanting different things and as a result very little is getting done.
space to finish the negotiations and get that done before we have to turn to the end of year appropriations. reporter: his agenda stalled on capitol hill with moderates and progressives unable to come to a consensus on how much money to spend and what to spend it on. you got to communicate. reporter: sanders and manchin s differences from coming to a head. this week multiple sources on a virtual call with the white house and progressive members of congress said that congressman suggested that the two men get in a room and negotiate. biden described that scenario as homicide. sanders telling reporters friday that quote my criticism of manchin and sinema is not the views. i disagree with their views but they re entitled to the views. my strong criticism is it is wrong when the american people, the president of the united states, when 96% of the