previous reluctant witnesses. one is the secret service. according to new cnn reporting, investigators have identified potential missing text messages on the phones of ten agents. messages from on and around january 6th. committee vice chair liz cheney calls the developments regarding the agency deeply troubling. i have just tremendous respect and admiration and real affection for members of the secret service, particularly those who were with my family on 9/11 and in the aftermath of 9/11. but i also know that what we saw in terms of what s happened over the course, what we ve become aware of over the course of the last several weeks is deeply troubling. we will get to the bottom of it. cheney also tells cnn the panel is still interested in speaking with steve bannon, who was convicted on two counts of contempt of congress for defying the committee s subpoena. we ll join steve bannon s attorney for his first interview. they say they could also subpoena begiginni thomas.
They try to call it a middleclass tax cut. And yet 86 million middle class families in the life of this bill will be paying more taxes. Laura well bring in an interpret ter w next time. Et democrats are so desperate they have sued trump campaign. Wikileaks and russian over Hillary Clinton loss in 2016. Donald trump has been saying for a year plus it is because you lost an election. What says that better than the Democratic National committee suing them. Saying you lost us this election. It is like david hasel half saying it is a waste of i time d resources. Laura the democrats cant agree on a political strategy. Tom perez and the dnc are Filing Lawsuits and other prominent liberals are shaking their heads. Threating over election prospects. Some trouble. They took out 1. 7 million loan in february. Soru theyre fundraising, a good measure of Voter Excitement is pathetic. Meanwhile the republican National Committee took in a whopping 39 million in the First Quarter alone. You think that
privilege log, provide those documents it doesn t apply to. this is where the lawyer felt he relied on the olc opinions. the olc opinions are based on the concept of separation of powers. if a president or former president invokes privilege, it s presumptively valid, period. not for congress to say it s not. what they say, very oddly, is you don t appear congress cannot compel you to appear. you say he s a private citizen, not a current executive branch member. the lawyer says, no, the rationale of the opinions apply think of it this way. president biden calls in henry kissinger, private citizen, not a member of the executive branch. i m not drawing a parallel. but he draws in kissinger and wants advice for that to be privilege from a private citizen. the issue is whether mark meadows calls in h.r. halderman to talk about campaign strategy, something that doesn t have to do with the white house, in particular, is that privilege? that s where it gets into an area where
the uniform stone wall that republicans have given trump, and made the republican party into the party of trump. tillis saidth if hillary clinton was in the white house, and some talk about firing a special prosecutor. laura: there s no talking about. this is a big fantasy. laura: this is a big fantasy. this is what the liberals have been begging for donald trump to fire bob mull mueller. it is a story line pushing for months. monica jump in thom tillis says courage is doing something that would anger your base. they would be angry if it was directed at protecting special council looking into hillary clinton. i believe the executive actually has the authority to fire someone in the executive branch. i m not saying it would be politically wise, but the ideas that congress can insulate an executive branch member by
motivational reading, smoking cessation, weight loss promotion, participating in parent-teacher meetings and helping a friend and relative with the household tasks and errands. republicans dismiss that. saying it was an effort to bypass congress, the only body they say would be authority to change the work requirement. that is a very significant grab of power that congress never intended. congress did not give the secretary of health and human services or any executive branch member for that matter the authority to waive work requirements under welfare. republican presidential candidate mitt romney offered his own interpretation. for the president to go back, and try and erase that, is not fair to the people who rely on welfare. it s not fair to the people who are taxpayers in this country. it s the wrong course, it creates a permanent underclass in america. the administration said it won t eliminate the work requirement, but may let the states use different meths than those in