actually have to play. right? very valid point, we all remember the clinton years where they were incredible internal disputes over just how much to cooperate with what they viewed as fishing expeditions. ultimately, i think they, you, know they were the day they did not cooperate. some say they should never have cooperated in the future. so if you are sitting with the biden people in the counselor s office. what do you think you would say to them in terms of, okay, do you legitimize these investigations? do you cooperate with them? do you turn everything over? or do you fight on some grounds citing executive privilege among other things? this is the hardest question that you could ask me. because you are in a situation where the republicans have completely thumbed their nose at all oversight. and i don t mean just in terms of the criminal or impeachment investigations. but even things like the immigration policies of the trump administration. when congress wanted to ask
false claims of executive privilege, to keep these investigations from going. they need to push forward with them as if this were a sane congress and make sure that they, as jill is saying, dot their i s and cross their t s and have documents ready to be handed over to congress. i know the biden administration has been staffing up, i hope that in the last few weeks of legislating, chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, have slipped a couple of extra million into the budgets that the council, just make sure they have the proper staffing to handle the wave of investigations that are going to be coming. well joe, let me ask you about that. how much baldest the white house have to actually play? hayes vax a very valid point, we all remember the clinton years where there were in credible disputes around what they viewed as fishing expeditions. ultimately i think
phone, former trump agent. i a judge has found there s probable cause, it s more likely than not that a crime was committed and that he and it has been established that there s evidence on that phone. it has to be it has to be clear and narrow. you can t just say, you know what, i want to get your phone, let s just send out letters to 30 people and have them send their telephones in. and that s the way evidence gathering works. there is sob basis that has to be established by a court. and in fact, if there isn t a basis for it, if you get to trial, it gets thrown out anyway. because you can t build a trial on fishing expeditions. this idea you hear that it s all a fishing expedition, you have checks to make sure that doesn t happen. but you want to be broad enough to cover the different things you re investigating. if you re talking about the idea of documents or the idea of what led up to january 6th as a premise, as a proposition, you ve got to go quite broad. when you hear
so it s really going to be a lot, if republicans are going to win in november. certainly, not welcoming those probes. but, there is a thought that is close to the president saying look, we don t want to republicans to win the house. if they do, perhaps, especially if these investigations are seen as far-reaching and fishing expeditions, they could become a useful foil for biden in the second two years of his first term. still ahead here in way too early, we ve got the business news with cnbc. we ll get an idea of what could be driving the first trading day of june. we ll also get to this morning s other headlines, next on way too early. ex on way too early
though he s out of office, he has the ability to keep the documents confidential. trying to run out the clock here too. trump has until november 12th to on obtain a court order to stop the committee. jessica, does the former president have a legal argument to protect those records? that s all going to be decided possibly today, jim. it is an issue that has never been explicitly decided by the supreme court. the supreme court has ruled that the privilege is extended to ex-presidents, but they haven t weighed in when there is a agreement between a current and former president as there is here. but nevertheless, trump s legal team is pressing hard to assert that documents from his time in office should remain secret. in their brief this week, they put it this way, permitting the expansive request here would harm future presidents and their close aides by allowing invasive congressional fishing expeditions that will certainly chill candid advice and harm the