me. source telling cnn the context of the text messages and e-mails handed over by the president s former chief of staff, mark meadows without any claim of executive privilege. meadows, as we reported last night is now refusing to talk to the committee and suing the members along with the house speakers. there s a lot to get to. we ll have more on what meadows shared in a moment. let s get details on the piappes court ruling. this was 68 pages in a wholesale rejection of trump s arguments that he should block records from going to the committee. the judge writing this opinion wrote repeatedly ta trump s legal team failed to make any compelling arguments in this case and instead she says they only offered what she called a grab bag of objections. in the end for this court, it really came down to three things. the fact that the current prosecute joe biden carefully reviewed all the documents at issue. that his administration is best suited to determine wa should be privileged
strengthening our democrat, institutions requires constant effort. american democracy is an ongoing struggle to live up to our highest ideals and to heal our divisions. president biden hosted the very first summed for democracy, did it virtually. and promised he ll keep fighting to pass critical legislation to shore up the foundation of american democracy, that is our sacred right to vote. you heard him touch on our own home-grown threats to freedom, but this was very much a message to the masses around the world. during this week, he confronted two rising authoritarian states, russia and china, over their actions. shaming china fritz increasing aggression against taiwan and human rights abuses, and issued a diplomatic boycott of the olympics. and the president called on vladimir putin this week to try to thwart a russian invasion of ukraine as the country amasses tens of thousands of troops at its border. today, biden spoke directly with ukraine s president, zelensky, reit