new pressure coming from the january 6th maga riot probe and that pressure is coming directly onto the biden white house which may release information on trump s actions leading up to january 6th. now, for all the talk about norms over those past four years that we lived through what you see here is something a little different. this new congress may push this new president, joe biden, into breaking sort of a norm here. presidents are very protective of their secrecy including the secrecy of other presidents, many presidents know someday if they go on and live normal lives they will end up being ex-presidents and so there s kind of a secrecy pact. but i want to tell you why this is our top story. this is a change and many in washington say it s long overdue and necessary because as with so many things related to donald trump, this feels different. congress has subpoena power to probe an actual insurrection and few presidents would actually seriously argue, indeed maybe no pre
President except donald trump would ever argue that office s great power or secrecy can be properly exercised to end democracy itself. so that is why there are these reports and a lot of expectations that the biden white house might discard that normal privilege and secrecy and release whatever it has on the most recent occupant of the office who disgraced himself on january 6th. i want to be clear legally the former president donald trump can still fight and test the approach here, he can ask the courts to intervene or recognize an ongoing executive privilege but this is the showdown that many expected when congress did move forward and say they re really going to investigate the heck out of what went down on january 6th. if you think we have the whole story without the subpoenas and investigations done that s unlikely. top investigator adam schiff also saying the committee will go straight to subpoenas for any resistant witnesses. they re not going to wait around. no word on if that
New pressure coming from the january 6th maga riot probe and that pressure is coming directly onto the biden white house which may release information on trump s actions leading up to january 6th. now, for all the talk about norms over those past four years that we lived through what you see here is something a little different. this new congress may push this new president, joe biden, into breaking sort of a norm here. presidents are very protective of their secrecy including the secrecy of other presidents, many presidents know someday if they go on and live normal lives they will end up being ex-presidents and so there s kind of a secrecy pact. but i want to tell you why this is our top story. this is a change and many in washington say it s long overdue and necessary because as with so many things related to donald trump, this feels different. congress has subpoena power to probe an actual insurrection and few presidents would actually seriously argue, indeed maybe no