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Breaking news on this monday night. a federal judge ruling former white house counsel don mcgahn must testify before congress. a big win in the house. a big loss for the white house. a decision may obviously impact the other white house officials who try to stonewall or duck these requests, including from the impeachment probe, including, of course, the john bolton issue. all of this comes with new heat on rudy giuliani, which weve been reporting on, along with new reports from "the wall street ...

If that is not evidence enough that trump is pushing a conspiracy theory, try this. vladimir putin himself says hes pleased that the, quote, political battles in washington have put on the back burner accusations that russia interfered in u.s. elections. according to the associated press putin said this week, quote, thank god no one is accusing us of interfering in the u.s. elections anymore. now theyre accusing ukraine. leading off our discussion tonight daily beast editor at large. hes current...

Kremlin apparently succeeded, as unfounded claims about ukrainian interference seeped into republican talking points, end quote. if that is not evidence enough that trump is pushing a conspiracy theory, try this. vladimir putin himself says hes pleased that the, quote, political battles in washington have put on the back burner accusations that russia interfered in u.s. elections. according to the associated press putin said this week, quote, thank god no one is accusing us of interfering in the...

>> i will give you their names. >> its not only of interest to gl glenn beck. adam schiff and nysd prosecutors may want the names. the president was holding on the same conspiracy theory. >> they have the server from the dnc. >> who has the server? >> the fbi went in and told them get out of here. were not giving it to you. they gave the server to crowd strike or whatever its called which is a company owned by very wealthy ukrainian. i still want to see that server. the fbi has never gotten that...

>> one could argue some of the penalties for certain low level drug offenses are lower than the kind of federal corruption cases paul needs to prosecute. >> mulvaney has gotten to be a more critical player, plus as you know there was his confession in front of national tv. >> yeah. >> so the fact that he is talking about this openly and publicly certainly would undermine any claim he has. >> any privilege. >> to absolute immunity. not executive, but absolute immunity. dont even know what it circ...

Dont assume that trump is going to protect you. >> were over time. david, briefly, word on that. thats what happened with dean. he saw it comes and changed his mind. >> we have testimony already saying talk to rudy coming from trump. so trump acts like the mafioso don who says you know what? i want to fix this thing. you talk to rudy. he knows what to do. rudy knows what to do. so its going to be very hard for these guys to be asked to pin it on mulvaney. >> david corn, paul butler on a night of...

Democrats than this one, because here the full force of impeachment powers are without a doubt in play. >> thats exactly right. one of the benefits of this being an official impeachment inquiry is that congress has a right to a lot more evidence. and the presidents claims of absolute immunity or executive does not have the same force if there ises no an impeachment inquiry. >> david, you feel like this is msnbc or court tv tonight? were right in it. i want to broaden back out. if everyone is say...

Different theory than david. why go into court at all? >> again, it could be some stalling tactic. there is no case or controversy with kupperman now. so it sounds like what happens is the judge said look, kupperman came in to see if he has to obey the subpoena. congress withdrew the subpoena. >> in that particular instance. >> in that case. congress says whenever people who are part of the administration say theyre not going to testify, were just going to chalk that up. >> were going to roll ri...

To see some version, the most recent, mulvaney 3.0 which we call that around here post full mulvaney is is what we saw on fox. take a look, david. >> you consider asked specifically by jonathan karl was investigating democrats one of the conditions for holding up the aid? was that part of the quid pro quo? and you said it happens all the time. >> but go back and watch that i said before there not a quid pro quo. >> you were scad by jonathan karl. you described a quid pro quo and you said that ha...

Lawyers say they are withdrawing the motion to intervene in this very case, but instead will, quote, file their own lawsuit as a separate case, meaning this entire controversy is still very much alive, but mulvaney perhaps buckling to some of this late-breaking pressure about who he was working. with as promised, we bring in mother jones washington bureau chief david corn and paul butler. good evening, gentlemen. >> good evening. >> david, this is one of those nights. i got handed this as we wer...