democratic process. that would have a chilling effect. that s not what we want. and former president trump is asking the supreme court to keep documents away from the january 6 committee. they believe the information will help it go behind the scenes of the days of the riot. lower courts have ruled the documents don t belong to trump personally, but to the office of the presidency. and, of course, president biden has not been willing to defend executive privilege for these documents. cnn s jessica schneider has more. reporter: chris teetine and paula, they are trying to decide how to proceed. trump s legal team is asking for two things. first, they want the justices to take up this case. they are arguing this case raises novel issues of executive privilege, mostly, how much weight a former president has to assert that privilege. but more importantly and more pressing for the former president, his lawyers are also asking the justices to keep any
about where they are on whether or not it is worth shutting the government down over building the president s long promised border wall. he will make that trip today. we ll have to see what he says. but right now, we re still very much in the middle of this government shutdown. dave and chris teetine. republican senators are planning to make an offer that they hope the democrats can t refuse. the deal would include the $5.7 billion for the border wall in exchange for several democratic initiatives including protection for d.r.e.a.m.ers. republican senators met privately last night with white house adviser jared kushner. after the meeting, lindsey graham sounded optimistic. i m somewhat hopeful that maybe there is a way to get what the president wants in a fashion that would do the least amount of damage to the country as possible. kushner told the republican senators if they came up with a proposal they could pass that