january 6th committee. we ll listen to the top democrat on that committee. we should get those documents soon because the sitting president has the primary say on executive privilege. joining me cnn senior legal analyst, a former state and federal prosecutor. what is executive privilege? john, executive privilege is one of the most controversial and high stakes legal theories in our whole system. generally speaking, it means certain communications between the president and his top advisers need to remain secret. they don t go to congress or prosecutors or the general public. now, executive privilege is as old as the nation itself. the first president to invoke it was the first president, george washington. and every president since has invoked the executive privilege in some way or other. the patron saint, the godfather of executive privilege is richard nixon. 1974, water gate is exploding, special prosecutors, the secret oval office tapes and nixon says, no, executive
top of a brand new hour. i m victor blackwell. i m alisyn camerota, thank you for joining us on this special holiday edition of cnn newsroom. we begin with the ongoing threat to democracy unfolding in realtime. donald trump still trying to sell his big lie that the 2020 election was somehow stolen from him thousand he was defeated by joe biden. it s not just his rabid supporters going along with this lie, it s also top establishment republicans. seven-term senator chuck grassley standing side by side with the losing ex-president on stage at a des moines rally on saturday. and trump s former chief strategist steve bannon is defying the house select committee investigating the january 6th election. he says he won t cooperate. just how aggressive will the committee be in his search for the truth. here s one of the two gop members on the panel. it gets to a point we re stone walling, and we re not serious. there s contempt things you can file. you can do it through congres
president of mexico, saying what she spent her time on. worldwide shortages and delays are crippling the supply chain. what private companies are doing to take matters into their own hands ahead of the holidays. todd: we all take christmas very seriously. i already started by christmas shopping,. todd: you re watching fox & friends first on this monday morning. carley: i m carley shimkus. the president is warning members of his own party that they need to stay unified as the clock tickses down on his ambitious agenda. todd: alexandria has more. reporter: even with progressives and moderates playing a tug of war over the price tag of the massing spending bills, democrats believe a deal will eventually get done. i think the ultimate price will be around $2 trillion. it s the policies that really matter. as a caucus, we agree on those. reporter: the projected spending bill is currently around $3.5 trillion. it s the number that moderates like senators kyrsten sinema
i m telling you. it is going to be unbelievable. carley: vice president kamala harris skipping a meeting with the president of mexico, we ll tell you what she spent her time on instead and it s not the crisis at the southern border. todd: worldwide shortages and delays crippling the supply chain. what private companies are doing to take matters into their own hands ahead of the holidays. carley: you re watching fox & friends first on this monday morning. i m carley shimkus in for jillian mele. todd: hello, i m todd piro. the president warning his party to stay unified as the clock ticks down on the ambitious agenda. carley: republicans say the out-of-control spending to blame for the weak september jobs report. alexandria, good morning. reporter: before the president can build back better he has to rebuild unity within his own party. democrats still have to settle on how much the plan is worth. here s the president addressing the dnc virtually this weekend. we need to s
frustration boiling over for passengers who say they were completely blindsided. we didn t find out until 5:00 this morning that it was canceled. we were on the phone for seven hours. it was so backlogged. said they were having problems. they didn t say what it was and you re lucky you got a flight. because the weather is fine and all collecting areas. connecting areas. that has to be something we haven t seen. dana: southwest blaming it on air traffic control and severe weather. the faa contradicting it saying it s not to blame for what happened. the cancellations, during a controversy over the airlines vaccine policy. southwest and its pilots unions denying it had anything to do with the wave of cancellations but one pilot did warn it could lead to shortages. stick with it going to bring the airline industry to its knees. they can t operate with a 10% loss of their workgroups. it affects the consumer. we don t just fly people. we fly organs, blood for hospitals, med