that reason he s asking the supreme court to take an appeal of those cases. now normally, andrea, we would have to wait several weeks for this. the house committee is saying that those lower court decisions were right, but if the supreme court s going to take the case, they say please do it quickly so the court can hear an argument in february, which would be an accelerated schedule because it says it needs this information to help guide the investigation. so basically we re waiting for the court to say whether they ll hear the appeal or not. i think under normal times, the the first chance we would have to find out would be this coming monday when we normally get the list of cases that the court will take or not take. whether we ll find out monday or not, i just don t know yet. when we re talking about the court, what else is coming up before the court in the coming days? well, the extraordinary friday session, the special session to consider the attacks on the president s two osh
requirements or two covid requirements, one covering large employers, people who have more than 100 employees, and the other covering health care workers. they re in various states of enforcement or non-enforcement based on lower court decisions. the court will hear the argument on those two cases on friday, andrea. and barbara mcquade, congresswoman cheney was saying that there are several criminal statutes in play as to whether or not there could be some enhanced penalties or some issue regarding the former president actions that day. what laws do you think could be used against the former president if it s approved that he was criminally negligent by not calling off the rioters or do you think new laws would have to be enacted? no, i think there are current laws on the books that could be applied there. i don t know that negligence alone is going to be enough, but as congresswoman cheney has cited on occasion, there is a
asked about that on meet the press . do you think you re going to have to subpoena a sitting member of congress? well, i think there s some questions of whether we have the authority to do it. we re looking at it. if the authorities are there, there will be no reluctance on our. joining us now, pete williams, and barbara mcquade. let s first talk about this fight over trump white house records that are now being held by the national archives. so the supreme court is expected to rule on this or have arguments on this? talk to me about their schedule. reporter: the question is will the supreme court take the case. that s what the president is asking the court to do because he lost in the two lower courts, the district court and the court of appeals both said that, yes, the president does have some residual executive privilege, but it has to yield to the greater need from these for these documents from the january 6th committee investigating after all the worst attack on the co
the national interest of america. national security interest. i think this comes under the big column of promises kept. the president trump can keep being trump and keep forging on. it s pretty close. mitch mcconnell is a big winner this week. he is a big winner, the senate majority leader who blocked merritt garland, president obama s selection for a year. with the idea that gee, maybe a republican would win. here comes trump and you get gorsuch. now you start to understand the real implications of what mitch mcconnell did. he opened the court to be fixed that you will get a strong conservative voice specifically on abortion. hang on. the loser is harry reid. he opened the door. he did not. he ended filibusters on lower court judicial nominations, not supreme court. other presidential nominations sglao. that was one