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The three committees in the letter from pat cipollone he. it goes to executive privilege and attorney client privilege. unless and until congress decides that it tries to enforce the subpoena, theyre not going to get any cooperation from giuliani. >> neil: all right, john roberts. thank you very much. john at the white house. maybe this, this could be the presidents best defense against abatement. a booming stock market darn close to another record. the lexus es... ♪ ...every curve, every inno...

Chief. here the u.s. attorney at a minimum would be involved every step of the way. they want to make sure that the process is done completely right and that everything is very buttoned up. because they dont want this to look like politically motivated investigation. its very important that they maintain the public trust in this investigation and how everything is carried out. >> the fact that mr. giuliani san attorney and purports to represent the president as an attorney means there is additio...

Im going to need you to do me a favor though and then he references giuliani. he says i need you to talk to and work with giuliani because he needs this dirt on the former vice president joe bidens son. so he references giuliani and also the current attorney general william barr. he says work with them to get the dirt. when this comes before congress in an impeachment hearing or if this goes to court, could giuliani because hes trumps lawyer, i dont think hes fired him, not that weve heard. can ...

Authorities on joe biden. what do they know? the fact that they are in custody opens the door to the possibility that theyre going to be able to tell a lot more about what was happening behind the scenes, exactly where this information was coming from. theres a lot of suspicion, poppy, by the way, that some of this information is essentially disinformation. were back to 2016 and an effort to use disinformation for the 2020 election. and so keep that in mind as the story unfolds. >> and they dont...

Make a really tenuous attorney/client privilege argument to keep them from talking at all. but when that fails as it probably will then well talk about actually putting the lean on them. >> got it. rachel, this morning the democrats over on the house side, we know they subpoenaed parnas and fruman as part of the whole impeachment inquiry. how does that play into the bigger picture on capitol hill? >> i think that the open question, its open at this point. interesting thing about these indictment...

Constitution that we are trying to protect from the abuses of this president of the united states. >> joining me from capitol hill, msnbcs garrett hague, and from the white house, nbcs hans nichols. this is hard to follow, were going to do it as orderly as we can. hans, lets start with you. now we have new information from rudy giuliani. >> reporter: the presidents personal attorney is indicating he is not going to appear before congress without a fight. he is not totally ruling out the idea tha...

Follow me on facebook and instagram and twitter at jake tapper. you could tweet the show at the lead cnn and our coverage continues now. thank you for watching this special edition of "the lead, the white house in crisis," well see you tomorrow. happening now, breaking news. pompeo stonewalls. secretary of state mike pompeo is refusing to let state department officials mentioned in the whistle-blower complaint talk to congress saying theyre being intimidated and bullied and treated improperly....

Now with an official impeachment inquiry everything that is said could be construed as witness tampering. with rudy giuliani, they use the words adverse inference against you. thats new. >> thats really important. another thing thats important about the giuliani subpoena is that its for documents, not for testimony. i think theres actually something very clever about that. because if they were to subpoena giuliani for testimony there is the possibility of attorney/client privilege arising but th...

A criminal investigation. ive publicly stated that this whistle-blower has about a week to decide whether or not the acting dnis going to do the right thing and give the full substance of this to congress. if that doesnt happen, alex, i believe this whistle-blower can go to the fbi and say i believe im part of a violation of law. ive witnessed it or been asked to be a part of it. and that gets the whistle-blower out from under any concern that hes going to be -- he or shes going to be attacked f...

Should have access to documents and e-mails that would shed light on communications that happened behind the scenes between the department of justice, the department of commerce as it relates to the census and why a citizenship question was added to the census. that is the issue for that committee and theyre trying to get at that. of course, the census has many ripple effects in how services and resources are provided by congress to various issues around the country. of course, ultimately, it de...