ultimately lost this. yes, because the court of appeals which is of course upholding here, because the court of appeals concluded that president trump s claims would have failed even if they were the incumbent, his status as a former president necessarily the committee gets the documents, trump loses, but we should also know that this was not a close call legally by any stretch of the imagination. it would ve been a shocking, a truly shocking and lawless action, had the court found it the other way. 100%. when he is tried to do which has worked so well for him in the past, is less this case take its time in the court system for him. and trump s gambit here, was to have the injunction in place pending a full review on the merits, and i m sure his hope
enough for them. given what s at stake here, the part of our democracy and the slight change whether the filibuster will be in the senate, would be enough to bring them forward. there s some other breaking news tonight about the supreme court and the trump administration. supreme court moving quite expeditiously to allow those documents to be transmitted to the national archives, to the committee rejecting the claims of executive privilege. how significant is of that and the part of the effort that you re talking about, and safeguarding to american democracy. i see it on all cylinders. i am heartened by the pace that they are now proceeding. they are aided by the court s decision today, did not take much time for them to get to which i think is an appropriate position. it s a back of the hand to the
the subpoenas comes just one day after the four that they sent yesterday to trump s top advisers like rudy giuliani, who try to aid his attempts of pushing the big election fraud lie. she sits on that bipartisan committee of january 6th, she joins me now, these two individuals congresswoman, how would you explain their significance? well, they were very active in whipping up mobs to overturn the election. we want to find out the extent of their ties, who else they were connected with. we are also very interested in that large amount of bitcoin funding that came in. and how that connects with their activities to overturn the election. we think it is pretty meaty, but i don t want to talk about that without saying, how
administration s claims from the trump legal team. a paragraph and a half, saying that the claims made by the trump rightfully done. the fact that the committee will now access to these is now extremely significant. mostly because the documents themselves will be available, or the guy to be re-question witnesses that they have spoken to. this is a very critical and important decision. we ve got more news about the various interlocking parts about the department of justice s case about or in a more recent case last week, the seditious conspiracy alleged by the department to stop the transfer of power. you are a prudent enough individual that you are not going to stand on the throes of the attorney general, but i
the courts emphatically rejected his arguments. and now with a majority in the supreme court they have as well. they said that the dissenting voice in the decision, trump has now the documents are being turned over. they also noted the fact that a number of close trump have been relying on similar claims of executive privilege to defy the subpoenas from the committee. it s not clear at this time how this ruling will affect those arguments if at all. she is a former staff supreme that other lawyers felt that an amethyst brief of the, asking the supreme court of what s to do policing records about january sex. and she joins me now. can we just start with what the court is holding here?