Biden refuses to assert privilege over Trump documents sought by January 6 committee

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🗓️ 9 October 2021

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The White House informed the National Archives that it isn’t asserting executive privilege on an initial batch of documents related to the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. This allows the Archives to share documents with the House committee investigating the attempted insurrection. Former President Trump sent a letter to the National Archives that argued approximately 40 of the documents initially requested by the committee are subject to executive privilege. John Dean was the White House counsel for President Nixon. He joins AC360 to discuss executive privilege and says he thinks this will eventually “rule against Trump.” Plus, the Laundrie family attorney declined to comment on whether or not Brian’s parents would take a polygraph at a later time. Police are still searching for Gabby Petito’s fiancé after he returned to his family home without her in early September, refused to cooperate with investigators and has been missing for nearly a month. Mark O’Mara is a criminal defense attorney. He tells AC360 it’s “criminal defense 101” to not have your client do a police-administered polygraph test before “quietly and confidentially” completing one in private.  Airdate: October 8, 2021 Guests: John Dean Mark O’Mara To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Our Democratic lawmakers investigating the first cool attempt this country has ever seen,
0:06.4	taking a butter knife to a gunfight, or will they, as they are signaling tonight,
0:11.0	truly get tough on those who stand between them and the truth. Also, did President Biden just
0:16.1	wheel a howitzer into the battle? John Burman here in Foranderson, a string of new developments
0:21.3	to bring you from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, they all touch on this, whether those who
0:26.5	tried to undermine democracy itself will be held accountable. Because as one political observer
0:31.9	tweeted today, an unpunished coup is a training exercise. Those are the stakes, as the committee
0:38.4	tries to enforce subpoenas on four ex-Trump aides and allies. As of tonight, only two former White
0:44.7	House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and former Pentagon official cash Patel are even engaging
0:50.0	at all in the process after a midnight deadline for producing documents came and went.
0:54.8	And that's the committee's word, by the way, engaging, which could mean anything and is a far cry
1:00.0	from cooperating. Dance Kovino, it's not clear whether he has responded at all or has even been
1:05.8	served. However, he is not even mentioned in the joint statement from committee chair Benny Thompson
1:11.0	and vice chair Liz Cheney. As for Steve Bannon, he's flat out defying the committee. His lawyer
1:17.4	citing the former president's executive privilege, which is a pretty brazen claim to make,
1:22.5	given that Bannon hasn't worked in the White House since 2017. And for the record, January 6,
1:28.5	2021 was an in 2017. Bannon is acting on the former president's orders, a Trump lawyer last night
1:36.4	telling all four not to comply. As you know, the former president has made it clear, he no longer
1:42.1	even sees January 6 as a thing, saying this week the real insurrection was on election day.
1:49.2	And last night on Fox, he made his contempt plain for those who have tried and failed to hold him accountable.
1:57.0	You had fake impeachment, stew fake impeachment, where the Republicans were great. I have to say they
2:02.6	stuck with us. The whole thing was fake. And I had to survive. And to survive, you had to be tough
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