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Significance? >> waiting for judges to rule, basically. lawyers for cooperman, by the way, say that he doesnt care how the case is resolved. they say hes not fighting the subpoena, he just wants to know whos going to prevail in this tug of war. he says the congress says he has to appear before a subpoena. the white house says no, he cant, and hes saying to the judge, you decide. but he took his lawyer and told the judge yesterday that hes agnostic about how it comes out. mcgahn is definitely res...

Information is at the congresss fingertips. dont be fooled. majority wants to fight. they want the drama. he doesnt actually want the information he claims to be seeking after the administration made things -- it har anxious the administration to being unable to comply with the subpoenas. democrats cut off negotiations and reject olive branches by the administration. the chairmans quote in his opening statements our subpoenas are not optional. we found out a lot about subpoenas over the last mon...

He says i felt the rules were being changed to hurt trump and i thought it was damaging for the presidency over the long haul. do you share that assessment? >> i do and great respect. look, what youve got here is this epic struggle between congress and the executive branch. look, for those of you that have seen hamilton the musical, thats what is playing out here. you have the jeffersonians on one side. is hamiltonians on the other. you have one believing in a vibrant executive branch and the ot...

Were committed to the health, safety and humane treatment of those in our custody. we see that happening, tom and say so ourselves we dont want to see this happen again. where are we in getting and reaching a solution? >> if i could let me pull the curtain back on that one issue real quick. when the dhs appropriations funding bill they shut down the government and put a committee to try to come up with a budget. the democrats added language in that bill saying ice could not take action against p...

Know it would have been treason. they would have called it treason. >> the president hosted that rally in pennsylvania because there is a special election there today to replace republican congressman tom moreno who resigned in january. >> sandra: thanks. >> jon: in the meantime the white house is digging in for battle with house democrats this morning. former white house counsel don mcgahn plans to defy a subpoena for his testimony before the house judiciary committee less than an hour from now...

Going on out there in america. >> sandra: there is definitely something going on and were watching all of it. governor mike huckabee, always good to see you. thank you. >> thank you, sandra. >> got nowhere to go now. put our money into this house and now were here. go figure it out. >> jon: just some of the heartbreaking aftermath in the plains states getting hammered by tornadoes and devastating floods. >> sandra: president trump saying when it comes to protecting our border the choice is simpl...

Dupree, former assistant attorney general under president bush. good morning, tom. great to have you here. you saw the live shot at the hearing room. don mcgahn is not going to show. the white house has directed him not to. he has put out a statement he will not be there. what happens next with this showdown. >> the tables are set for a constitutional clash. look, i think the white house is staking out a position that is constitution nallly principled. there is a history of asserting executive p...

Those financial records to congress. >> president trump: as far as the financials are concerned. we think its the wrong -- its totally the wrong decision by obviously an obama-appointed judge. >> this issue among several others between house democrats and the white house will continue to work their way through the federal court system to determine how much congress can obtain from the president and how much the white house can do to withhold. jon. >> jon: the battle goes on. rich edson at the wh...

President should be indicted or should be impeached but even the report doesnt say that. he didnt come to that conclusion. there is no evidence to support that. >> sandra: thats the opinion that you hold on that issue. but going back to why you have decided to run. there is some confusion. are you running because of the comments that justin amash had made or had you considered running previous to that? >> we considered running previous to that. but after those comments we decided to ramp up our ...

Documents, too. the ranking member doug collins is sitting to his left, to your right on the screen as well. well see what happens here. your thoughts on that. >> the fact is we saw the last time around the democrats -- many democrats are looking at this as an opportunity for political theater. we saw the chicken bucket and that sort of thing. i hope this time around theyll take their duties more seriously but youre right. the democrats are extremely interested in getting mcgahns testimony. a ke...