legislative branch, or at least i was. it s all false. the fact is, and in any event, what jack smith wants, is not even the speeches or debates that he may have made when have presided in a ceremony a role. he wants to know what trump who, i think we all know, was never a member of the legislative branch what trump said to him, in twisting his arm in the white house, which, when i last look, it is not part of the capitol up to january 6th, to try to pressure him into a kind of bloodless coup, and then perhaps what did he say on january 6th? so, this is a crazy argument. it s one that is being augmented by another equally crazy separation of powers argument. i don t think that the chief judge of the district court down there, barrel howell, will
and you can, and i m sure if this ever happens, donald trump will challenge the search. he ll say it was unconstitutional. he ll say that the prosecutors did not establish probable cause, that the search violated his constitutional rights. and if he wins at that point, then the evidence cannot be used against him. but that s the way this normally works. the fact that now the former president says he is running again for another term, i mean, there has been a lot of talk that maybe he thinks by announcing that might slow down some of the investigations or at least complicate them and make them look political. do you think this ruling in any way affects his run? anderson, i think it s going to be tough to make case when you had three republicans, the judges that issued the circuit judges that issued this opinion are a bush appointee and two trump appointees. it s pretty tough to make that case. obviously, a lot of conservatives believe that this case was flawed in the beginning bec
have been a bunch legally today. a whole bunch. one of them is mark meadows. mark meadows, the ex chief of staff, of course, he has been subpoenaed in the criminal investigation in the county of georgia, where the da there is investigating election meddling. he basically tried to get out of it by going to the south carolina supreme court, which itself is a strange, venue wise, saying it should have to testify. they say, we have reviewed their argument raised by the appellate and find them to be manifestly without merit. basically said, sorry buddy, you have to go testify. what do you make of that? yeah, so my understanding is that he tried to press an executive privilege claim. and executive privilege, as you know, chris, is a separation of powers argument, which might have a colorful claim when you are dealing with a congressional subpoena. it s not going to carry a lot of weight in the grand jury subpoena and not one from a state, especially. i mean, i don t even see the separation
you have to go testify. what do you make of that? yeah, so my understanding is that he tried to press an executive privilege claim. and executive privilege, as you know, chris, is a separation of powers argument, which might have a colorful claim when you are dealing with a congressional subpoena. it s not going to carry a lot of weight in the grand jury subpoena and not one from a state, especially. i mean, i don t even see the separation of power issue that s really arising there. i think that s what the court is saying. meadows though is really important because he s on this call with trump and the secretary of state of georgia to find these missing votes and i think it s important, chris,
arguing that allowing the subpoena to go forward, the house subpoena, that means congress is now free to investigate every detail of president trump s personal life. is that what s at stake here, or does the president just not wanting to release his taxes? well, the president definitely doesn t want to release the taxes, but this is essentially a separation of powers argument. the white house wants to claim that if congress exercises its oversight powers and, you know, that they re essentially they re suggesting that congress is on a fishing expedition to find evidence of a crime or something like that. you know, the house has broad oversight authority to request these, and i think it s going to be up to the court to decide how to balance that with the executive branch. so far the white house has lost both at the district court and in the appellate court, but this will be a pretty serious decision in terms of the balance of powers between congress and the executive branch. all ri