degree on property that ought to be returned would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude. new york times points this out, quote, her ruling seemed to carve out a special exception to the normal legal process for the former president and reject the justice department s implicit argument that trump be treated like any other investigative subject. there are significant questions on how her new ruling will work, especially since the special master is permitted to review documents based on trump s claims of executive privilege. they re claims that have been rejected by the current head of the executive branch, that would be president joe biden. from the times reporting, quote, after trying for months to get the documents back from trump, the national archives, the agency that safeguards presidential records told his lawyers in a letter in may that both the justice department and the biden white house did not believe the former president s execut
these other folks, they may or may not testify or take the fifth, but we know the records will speak. and so in the end, the fact that the final, it looks like, the final potential legal roadblock to this committee and the public seeing the documentary evidence about what was going on in terms of white house communications, that s enormously consequential for history and potentially politically, as we saw joe biden today talk about republicans, not just republican intransigence in the press conference, but he talked about, this is key to the midterm election strategy, republicans are under the thumb of donald trump. they re intimidated by donald trump. that s where the lines cross here from what the 1/6 committee is doing, and what democrats will be doing in november and maybe beyond.
washington is something new. i think this was probably more for domestic consumption. but he does have a major bipartisan accomplishment in the infrastructure bill and instead of choosing to talk about that and herald that major accomplishment, which alluded previous presidents, he chose to talk about republican intance gents and that s a midterm election strategy. obviously, i m not saying that there isn t republican int intransigents. there is. but there are ways and places where they could cooperate. but that of course is why biden got the job. he told the american people that he could do this. he was a deal maker. jake, i want to go back to, while we re on the domestic agenda and talk about a little bit about little bit about voting and the sanctity of our free and fair elections here, because it s pretty clear to me that president biden had the base of the democratic party in mind when he was talking about voting rights and the importance of passing voting rights legislation.
through a deeply divided congress, but it will be important in the medium and long term in setting up a midterm election strategy for democrats where they hope to add to those majorities so they re not worried about a 50/50 senate or just a few seats in the house where they can try to preserve in the house and grow in the senate. i think preserving that is important for this white house. i think the basis of that starts foundationally with a covid response. and i think that is why you see an increase in the president being out there, the townhall meeting this week being very forward on getting people vaccinated. sahil, stay with me. the tokyo olympics are now officially under way and between the pandemic and the protests the athletes are under more pressure than ever. first, the u.s. surgeon general says social media companies let conspiracy
graham and others who support the president who say he could change with a phone call. but again, using it against the democrats and as bill crystal was just saying, doubling down on it a midterm election strategy. eplet all say it together, there is no law that requires the federal government to separate children from their families if they have entered the united states illegally. that is a policy that has been put into place, and it has resulted in, in this border patrol station, 1100 children since april being taken away from their parents. it has resulted in little children waiting alone in this station. i sasome of them yesterday, waiting to get picked up by the department of health and human services, and taken to facilitiacross the country, one of a hundred, in 17 states where they have to wait to go through a process, to get into a foster care program or sponsorship program, because of a decision by the president of