they had been indicted, they were cooperating fully. ben, and miller had been interviewed, according to media reports. so, it looks like the department of justice is waiting, and waiting playing into trump s hand, as you pointed out for, the setup of this. peace this whole strategy is to run out the clock. the committee itself may not exist after the next election, because we are told that if the republicans take over the house, first thing they ll do is dissolve the committee. you can stonewall a congressional committee, and as we ve seen, trump is running out of clock on something as simple as, obviously an invalid claim of executive privilege, to withhold presidential papers that every judge, who has looked at so far, a saying to
whether or not to take the case. lawmakers plan to follow brief next week, asking the court to make a decision no later than down january 14th. if the court were to follow their normal rules, they wouldn t even discuss the case till mid february, even if they expedite that, the trump stacked supreme court, which was appointed by the former president, could still hear the case. if they, do it require arguments on their normal schedule. if this was a normal schedule, there wouldn t be a decision until june, of next year, most likely. a further six month delay for records, and the bipartisan committee investigating the committee, was asked back in august. you see the how this works. very effective actually. to delay accountability as long as possible. which is why trump s allies, in congress, keep pushing this dubious claim, of executive privilege. we ve had executive privilege since 1794, when george washington relative to the so, this is in exists not for
good evening, from new york, i m chris hayes. donald trump is now trying to run out the clock on the investigation into his new attempt. he wants to stop the january six committee from getting access to his records, by claiming, dubious executive privilege. as i noted there, that claim was already rejected by the sitting president, who gets to decide. also, by a fraternal judge, then by an appeals court earlier this month. trump was then given two weeks to appeal his case in supreme court, before the documents were released. so, today, exactly two weeks later, trump s lawyers finally fully appealed the supreme court, on the last possible day. that is of course, intentional. it s all part of a strategy to drag the process as long as possible. something that s been incredibly, incredibly successful during trump s career. trying to stop the delay tactics, the house is now asking the supreme court to expedite its decision on
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across the country will not be able to win on this. and all of this plays right into the hand of donald trump. i would argue that donald trump got himself elected this week. it s crazy stuff like this and the maxine waters stuff and by haranguing people in public, it s all playing into trump s hands. it all seems that way. and speaking of the president, here he is in fargo, north dakota. good to see you. and i won t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me and i gladly stand up, next to you, and defend her still today but there ain t no doubt, i love this land! god bless the usa! and i m proud to be an american, where at least i know i m free