understand the process that his company used which as we heard over and over again there is a lot of questions about the way this so-called audit was performed. but i think you know, this is an evident in trying to stem the fallout from this because, as we mentioned, other states are looking to perform audits. we have mid terms coming up in 2022. texas is going to be a state for a lot of competitive races. if you are already laying the groundwork for challenging an election that happened nearly a year ago now that could be consequential for the mid terms. eugene, thursday the texas governor said four counties will be targeted. that is despite the fact that trump won texas. listen to what harris county judge lina hidalgo said in response. i have our county attorney here looking at legal options.
intervened to black house inquiries, biden s administration indicated it won t stand in the way. overall, eugene, how is the white house responding to this select committee? my colleagues reported not standing in the way. obviously, they are they want to know what happened that day, too. right? this is not something that really should be partisan. but these are democrats who want to know what happened on january 6th. and what, more, importantly, who are the people in the offices they are sitting in now, what did those people do? so they are interested in finding those things out. and when it comes to whether or not the president the current president is going to say executive privilege for trump that s likely not going to happen. they already said. one, they said they weren t, and they had to back pedal a little bit and said they would do you know, whether or not they would claim executive privilege on a case-by-case base. i assume it has nothing to do
needs of the other. she s bringing in the present. she basically is saying to these people, we are all going to sink together or we are all going to swim together. this is too important to mess up. perhaps i have gotten accustomed to her pulling the rabbit out of the hat every time. but as impossible as it seems, i almost think she s going to do it. how she s going to do it and how ugly it is going to get is going to be something else. but this is republicans dream come true. they can see utter chaos this week. that s what they would like. lauren, jennifer, thank you. eugene, i think we have all been following your covid saga on twitter. i am so glad that you are well. and it is so good to see you. thank you so much for making us the show you returned to. next, the case of gabby petito is heart breaking. yet another reminder that there are thousands of cases just like it across the country that we never here of or about. we will talk about that next.
concerned about the ramifications and trying to stop it. and my advice is, take every legal pathway you have to do that. i think maricopa county at this point probably wishes they had appealed the subpoena. and that would have gone a long way to try to squash this and really stop the sowing of doubt. for more, i want to turn to my panel, eugene daniels coauthor of prosecution playbook , lauren gambino of the guardian. and the author of the new book titled resistance, how women saved democracy from donald trump . i want to read you something that jamal buoy from the new york times writes. that all of the pieces are falling into place for trump to seize power from voters. quote, all he needs is a rival