the trump white house. that s right. no executive privilege for one batch of documents requested by the bipartisan congressional committee that wants to know just what trump was doing leading up to and during the attack on the capitol. and then, likely, no executive privilege for those around him like steve bannon, who continued to use the privilege as a laughable shield to protect them from the committee for reasons, at least one democratic congressman sees all too clearly. if he was innocent, he would cooperate. the reason he s not cooperating is because he does not have an innocent explanation for his conduct that day. plain and simple. it s a consciousness of guilt. eric swalwell there. president biden continue to tout a covering economy. we got some analysis of numbers that show who s not coming back to work but why. and of course facebook under fire from inside their organization as a whistleblower goes public with the damage the company is doing on a daily basi
governing. on the other, you have republicans still beholden to donald trump, and a few democrats beholden to their own agenda. i ll get to those democrats shortly. because trump s former presidential aides have yet to comply with congressional subpoenas related to the events of january 6th because our former president literally told them not to. president biden, of course, isn t having it, declining his predecessor s executive privilege as we got yet another damning report of just how far trump tried to go to stay in office. but even out of office, the trump staff on the courts endures, with the federal appeals court last night removing the stay on the texas near-total ban on abortion after our highest court chose not to get involved. we ll have the latest out of texas tonight. and while negotiations of every sort continue on the hill, those of us in the civil rights community are wondering about the future of police reform, as cities do what they can, and the gop legislator
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I forgot your second. yes, we ran out of time, so i ll have you back because i think this story is going to continue to grow because facebook is not going anywhere. cecilia kong, thank you. i m yasmin vossoughian. bile back tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. eastern. reverend al sharpton and politicsnation starts right now. good evening and welcome to politicsnation. tonight s lead, democracy versus despotism. right now our political life is driven by two factions that defy easy category. on the one side, you have the most democrats committed to the rule of law and at least participating in the business of
This and the company s response, of course, is the new york times technology reporter, coauthor of an ugly truth. cecilia, welcome. thanks for joining us. i want to read for you a part of mark zuckerberg s response to haugen s testimony last week. and he writes, i m sure many of you have found the recent coverage hard to read because it just doesn t reflect the company we know. we care deeply about issues like safety, well-being, and mental health. it s difficult to see coverage that misrepresents our work and our motives. at the most basic level, i think most of us don t recognize the false picture of the company that is being painted. cecilia, do you buy this? you know, i think that really important operative word is our motives. i think facebook and in particular mark zuckerberg is