will met with less forceful consequences. that left the white house scrambling to insist any aggression would trigger a response. we ll talk with a reporter from the daily beast coming up. also the supreme court denied former president trump s request to block the release of white house documents to the january 6th select committee under the claim of executive privilege. they ve already been received records. the decision was nearly unanimous as justice clarence thomas was the sole member voting in favor of blocking the release. the brief order, which was written by chief justice john roberts upheld the appeals court decision that trump would not be able to prevent the release of documents even if he were the current president, a determination based on precedent from the watergate era which forced president nixon to turn over his oval office tapes. the question of whether a former president can maintain privilege
than a member voting against funding and policies like with our investment in our infrastructure that we just passed trillions of dollars we re going to put into our infrastructure, and then go out and publicly celebrate it at the ribbon cuttings, say what they have done when they voted against it. and one of the things that the president said, you need to be really clear. the votes from the republican party were not there. we as the democrats delivered. we are bringing the investment in our infrastructure that we have not seen since the new deal. he said we are we do the work. but we re not doing the best job in delivering the message, and we see on the other side, the republicans, they get their line, they stick to it. whether it s true or not, and they stick together in their message, and he said, we need to have that same passion of
about their votes. the simple reality here is that s not true. votes will be recorded here regardless. you ve had members from front line districts like elissa slotkin who has been out on television pounding the necessity of this vote. it tells you that republicans think they will ultimately be able to use this impeachment voted against their democratic colleagues come next november and by blocking her motion here, liz clain any can stand up and say, a-ha, see, democrats don t want their votes done in public. even though we re all going to watch this happen on national television. back with andrew mitchell. i m keep on how they ll use this politically. everybody watching wants to know this. if a local affiliate can show a suburban member voting on the floor for impeaching the president that that district may have voted for, that could be serious stuff coming up. we ll be right back about the politics of this, the constitution of this and, of course, the importance in our history of w