let s play what he once said about people who do that. you see the mob takes the fifth. if you re innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment? so barbara, what do you think he ll do? you know, the fifth amendment is kind of tricky. i don t know about civil cases how all of that works, and in a crimical case, of course he s going to take the fifth amendment because anything he says that is truthful will, in fact, incriminate him. as far as this attitude about only the mob takes the fifth, i mean, you know, it s his projection. it s what he always does. i would never do something when actually that is what he s doing. cynthia, the legal question we kind of set you up there, first of all, would this be a risky strategy to plead the fifth? how could it come back to potentially bite him and how significant would it be for a former president to plead the ifivity? in the scope of history t seems shocking a president would
national archives didn t find anything. they were given upon request presidential records in an ordinary and routine process to ensure the presssation vasion of my legacy and in accordance with the presidential records act. another group fighting for the records is of course the january 6th select committee, so the longer it takes for the national archives to collect them, imagine how frustrating it is for this committee especially since they have undergone so many repeated delays already. you mentioned jan 6 dealt several legal blows, including yesterday a federal judge rejected trump s effort to toss january 6 lawsuits out. that s right. so these lawsuits were filed by several house democrats, as well as some capitol police officers, and the main legal argument for the former president and his legal team was that these lawsuits involved actions that he took while he was still in office, and that s why he was,