today, the january 6th committee investigating the riot asked the supreme court to decide by the middle of next month whether it will take a white house records case brought tie boo former president. the request came hours after he d asked the court to block the committee from getting about 700 pages of records. this follows losses in two lower courts that did not agree with his claims of executive privilege. the committee is seeking activity logs, schedules, speech notes and three pages of hand written notes. from them white house chief of staff mark meadows as they look into the former president s role into trying to overturn the election results. joining us now cnn supreme court analyst, and a cnn political commentator. what s going to happen here? do you see the supreme court taking up this case? nice to see you, john. it might be one they can t resist. this is major constitutional battle. it s a separation of powers issue. we ve never had the supreme court rule on the question o
today, the january 6th committee investigating the riot asked the supreme court to decide whether it will take a white house records case brought by the former president. the request came hours after it asked the court to block the committee from getting 700 pages of records. this follows losses in two lower courts that did not agree with his claims of executive privilege. t they are seeking this from mark meadows as they look into the former president s role in trying to overturn the election results. j what s going to happen here? do you see the supreme court taking up this case? nice to see you. it might be one they can t resist. this is a major constitutional battle. it s a separation of powers
is twitter the same as what you do? it overlaps the portion. you don t think you have a monopoly? certainly does not feel like that to me. okay. facebook and instagram and whasapp s, a monopoly. biden administration is seeking to break up facebook. it is also under scrutiny by congress right now with the january 6th committee investigating the riot and how it was dealt with law enforcement in the in coming insurrection. facebook contends with this investigation i mentioned, we reported on this when the new york times first broke the story exposed facebook for hiding a