Biden Rejects Trump Request To Withhold White House Records From Jan. 6 Committee

The Biden administration has denied former President Trump's request to exert executive privilege to block documents requested by the January 6 committee for their investigation into the Capitol riot. NBC's Mike Memoli reports from the White House.

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[chrisb]

The fact that trump wants these document withheld says it all. This cancer on society needs to be held accountable.

[thisonetime]

Innocent ppl don’t need to hide anything.

[aetch]

Don't know why there needs to be a legal battle. Only one person can claim executive privilege, and he's refused it.

[normanbrown]

No matter who is in the White House it is still the Peoples House.

[NothingButTheTruth.]

If that privilege was extended to Trump, he would not be asking Biden for anyting

[gerryregan]

How can we have a legal showdown when trump has no executive privelige??!!!!

[tammytate]

If a president had the power to hide their actions in perpetuity, that would be very dangerous. Once they're gone, we have the right to know what they did.

[kaykeelan]

No executive privilege for wrongdoing. Simple.

[waltgzerod]

If Donald was such a good President & Loyal to his Constitutional VOWS of January 20, 2017, what is he afraid of??
I don't recall President Biden signing a Non disclosure agreement with The Donald!!

[JP-zzrm]

If Trump didn’t have anything to hide or didn’t do anything wrong like he claims then he shouldn’t have anything to worry about right ? 🤷‍♂️, we shall see how the cookies crumbles 😉.

[kayouellette]

Biden said at the start he wouldn't step in the way to save or punish Don. He stuck to his word.

[JimboInTheHouse]

Get a crew pulling those documents immediately and park them outside Merrick Garland's office.

[Bobby_Digital]

Biden has full access to these records he should hand deliver all of them to the Washington Post and NY Times so thy can be published for all to see 👍🏾

[tedscott]

The committee/judges should just say NO you can't block this or stall for time!
Sorry buster you're under arrest!

[pareemattox]

Unless there was anything in it of national security there is no reason to evoke executive privilege.

[jerryrichardson]

Another fight Trump should lose and probably will, I'm looking forward to it. If Trump is innocent, what does he have to hide?

[bholmes]

like Trumps taxes, if there is nothing to see, why not release them. Trump's actions tell us the truth.

[tyrannywatch]

Biden did the right thing here. 100% back Biden on his decision.

[herbblodgett]

Trump thought when he became president he could do and say anything karma is real👍🏾

[lorisharpe]

We have every right to those documents!