I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Tuesday, October 19th.

Two headlines from Congress this morning. Progressive Democrats and more conservative Democrats from the House will meet

separately with President Biden today as he tries again to get to yes on the physical and

human infrastructure bills. So if 96% of Dems want one thing and just two other people

want something much less, what kind of deal would reflect a functioning democracy?

So that's one story.

And remember when Donald Trump first claimed the election was stolen,

and he and his people kept going to court to invalidate the vote in state after state,

and they kept losing and losing.

As of January 6th, that infamous day,

the Washington Post counted 62 lawsuits filed 61 losses for

Team Trump. The only case they won, people don't remember this because it was so small,

was to make mail-in voters in Pennsylvania get their IDs to accurately match their names on their

ballots no more than three days after election day.

Not exactly a stolen election case. So 62 lawsuits, 61 losses. Well, now, it's all these

months later. And Trump is going for 62 out of 63. This time, he's trying to stop the January 6th

committee in the House of Representatives

from getting access to documents that could shed light on Trump's own role in the insurrection.

At the same time, former Trump advisor Steve Bannon is now the subject, as you may have heard,

of a criminal contempt of Congress referral by the committee for defying a subpoena to testify.

NPR congressional correspondent Claudia Grasolos joins us now on these stories.

She's been focusing mostly on the emerging battle between Congress and Trump world over witnesses and documents.

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