before christmas, december 23rd. and tonight, it was only justice clarence thomas who publicly disagreed with the decision. also of note, justice brett kavanaugh, he wrote separately here to clearly state that this order it doesn t settle the question of whether a current president s decision to assert or not assert executive privilege takes priority over a former president s assertion. that issue will actually be left for another day. but the court s saying here in this particular case, since the lower courts essentially decided that trump s arguments were just too weak to assert privilege even if he had been sitting president, that means that trump cannot block his records. so this is, as you mentioned, a significant win for the committee. it now means that they will receive and review 700-plus documents. anderson, this includes a plethora of documents, call logs, visitor logs from the white house on january 6th, a record of trump s movements and meetings that day. plus, some key
this particular case, since the lower courts essentially decided that trump s arguments were just too weak to assert privilege even if he had been sitting president, that means that trump cannot block his records. so this is, as you mentioned, a significant win for the committee. it now means that they will receive and review 700-plus documents. anderson, this includes a plethora of documents, call logs, visitor logs from the white house on january 6th, a record of trump s movements and meetings that day. plus, some key records from chief of staff mark meadows. press secretary kayleigh mcenany. that includes talking points and draft speeches. so the committee here will suddenly have a lot more information about trump s actions and state of mind that day, anderson. something that they have been trying to understand more about. yeah. we ll see what is actually in those documents i guess at some point. jessica schneider, appreciate it. thanks very much. perspective now from cnn politica
essentially saying they re not going to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry. well, fiona hill is a former official. the fact that she is there testifying today under subpoena,under scores the fact that the white house cannot block everyone from testifying. sondland is expected to be there later this week. that raises some questions about just how solid this strategy is. it all comes as president trump demands that the whistleblower testify, something that adam schiff indicated over the weekend might not happen over security concerns. thanks to all of you. up next, there s outrage in texas. family members and community leaders right now calling for justice after the death of a 28-year-old texas woman fatally shot in her own home by a police officer. plus, race against the clock, the rush to find a survivor after saturday s deadly building collapse in new orleans. deadlyg collapse in new orleans. as a struggling actor,
years ago. haven t spoken to him in 15 years or more. i wasn t a big fan of jeffrey epstein. reporter: is still looking into the plea deal negotiated by mister acosta. the deputy secretary of labor will step in as active secretary. we are in the case of blocked twitter users. federal appeals court rules the president cannot block critics from his twitter account. hours later alexandria ocasio cortez was sued for the same thing. constitutional law attorney janet ellis and defense attorney bob beyond key, good to have you with us tonight. there are two lawsuits, people suing the congresswoman saying she blocked me, doesn t want to hear myself. if these are the new rules, the
we have break news to report right now. it means that be president trump is going to have to put his block button down on twitter. that s because a federal appeals court is just today ruling that the president cannot block critics from his twitter account, according to the associated press. this three-judge panel agreed with the lower court judge who said president trump violates the first amendment when he blocks people who he doesn t want to see on his account. the appeals court says the first amendment does not permit a public official using his social media account for all manner of official purposes to exclude people from an otherwise open line dialogue. not sure what it says about the mute button. we ll find out more on that. we re also reporting an exclusive today. the united mine workers doing something it has never done before. putting ought an all call to every democrat running for president, for the first time inviting them all to tour a cool