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Morning Joe

Morning Joe 10/11/21

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

Issues, Washington, Politics, President, Campaign, Scarboro, Brezinski, News, Giest, Ms Now, Congress, Government, Election

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The White House on Friday formally blocked an attempt by former President Donald Trump to withhold documents from Congress related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, setting up a legal showdown between the current and former presidents over executive privilege.

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0:00.0

What Facebook has done is disgraceful, and you better believe Congress will be taking action.

0:06.1

Right after we passed the infrastructure bill, raise the debt ceiling, prosecute those responsible for the January 6th insurrection, and stop Trump from using executive privilege, even though he's no longer president.

0:16.5

But after all that, you watch out, Facebook.

0:20.5

Okay, good morning and welcome to Morning, Joe.

0:23.1

It's Monday, October 11th.

0:25.2

A lot to talk about today with us.

0:27.2

We have White House reporter for the Associated Press, Jonathan Lemire, and MSNBC contributor and co-author of the Confidence Code series.

0:36.2

Caddy Kay is with us this morning.

0:38.4

And Joe, you've got the end of this block to talk about the Red Sox.

0:42.3

Oh, much to talk about.

0:43.2

We kept us up way too late last night.

0:45.2

So we're starting on time this morning.

0:47.4

There were a number of developments since we left you on Friday with the investigation into the January 6th attack of the Capitol.

0:55.9

The Biden White House formally rejected a request by former President Donald Trump

1:00.9

to use executive privilege to withhold documents from the Select Committee under federal law.

1:07.2

The current president has the power to waive executive privilege claims by past presidents.

1:13.5

In a letter to the National Archives obtained by NBC News, White House Counsel, Dana Rimas writes,

1:20.9

quote, President Biden has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not in the best interests of the United States

1:29.6

and therefore is not justified to as to any of the documents.

1:35.3

The White House now is authorizing the National Archives to turn over an initial batch of documents to the committee,

1:43.7

covering Trump's actions and communications

1:46.3

on January 6th, including his rally at the ellipse. In response to the decision, Mr. Trump

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