he acknowledged that he had to go. whatever he thought of the facts, he knew that there was a constitutional process in place and that he had lost and that the supreme court had made him turn over his tapes and that he was no longer and he would have been impeached and convicted in the senate. what made him go was his knowledge that his own party was going to convict him. now, donald trump s party has not convicted him in the senate, is not about to convict anybody, but rather is intent on covering up this horrible, horrible coup and undermining of our democracy, led by this person and now endorsed, enabled by one of our two political parties. we ve never had anything like it in our history. carl bernstein, i appreciate it. thank you, carl. coming up next, more breaking news. significant new details. randi kaye has just learned about what police were doing when brian laundrie returned
it is meaningless. so they can find themselves in contempt. and anderson, again, this is where the house has failed to get itself in order, to prepare for this. there are remedies for this. there are housekeeping things they can do and make these subpoenas through their inherent contempt powers have some meaning. why wouldn t they do that if that was a possibility? what is the inherent contempt power you re talking about? boy, i don t know. i cannot figure out. it is a no-brainer. ted lieu introduced in the last congress and again in this congress a resolution that would amend their rules that would give a fine power, up to $25,000 per incident and up to $100,000 per particular material, which can be repeated again and again. it can really add up. and this is just amending their rules. they don t have to go to the senate, they don t have to go to anybody. and i just don t get it, why they don t brace themselves to deal with this kind of behavior.
the former president, you know, obviously he can t exert executive privilege as he clearly thinks he can, but it doesn t really matter, does it? this will just end up in courts and will drag on so long that, other than for history, it may be irrelevant. that s his goal, is to just gum it up so bad and probably to litigate it. and a lot of these issues are not resolved, anderson. you re right. he cannot there s no way he can say to these people, you cannot testify, you cannot produce any documents in your control. the only sort of range where there s sort of mechanics that we might get to the documents is the presidential records act, if they ve complied with it, their records from the white house are in the national archives. and the archivist is under an executive order written by barack obama that tells him what he can and cannot do.
period will be considered retroactively to have violated the law. and so there are doctors still on the ground in texas today, many clinics on the ground in texas today that have continued to keep their doors closed. the ones who have decided to move forward, even though they are at risk of retroactive application of the law, are doing so very, very courageously. and they know that they are subject to personal financial risk as a consequence of this. this is the reason that we set up a legal fund for them. if your viewers want to help contribute to it, it s fundthefrontlinetx.org. you can go there and find out more information. we want our health care workers to know that we have their back and that they shouldn t feel like they need to be cowed as a consequence of the retroactive provision in this law.
executive privilege and block the january 6 committee from getting information from those subpoenaed. lie, deny, and now defy. remember, we define that as the triple play of trumpery. according to the washington post a trump attorney instructed his former advisers not to comply with congressional investigators and with good reason. they clearly may have damaging information. the senate judiciary committee just made that obvious in a new report about january 6th titled subverting justice. nearly 400 pages and they have the receipts. we ll give you some of the biggest headlines tonight but i argue that the obvious headlines about the main report aren t the real thing to focus on. the rebuttal from the gop is what you must look at. why? because those who empowered this, ignored it, also empowered it, but all of them collectively. they are still in power and the