The former president is claiming executive privilege over documents that may help us understand his role in staging an insurrection on his own government. "I think that that is the absurdity of the current moment, as we're tring to have normal legal conversation about executive privilege," she says.
The House is holding Steve Bannon in criminal contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena as part of its January 6 investigation. Journalist Andrea Bernstein explains.
Today’s show was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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