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Be told your executive privilege claim is denied. you dont get to claim it. how is it possible he and donald trump seem not to understand that? >> i think the problem is that they do understand it, joy, but theyve learned over the years that playing a delay game with the courts serves their purposes when theyre trying to avoid doing something here. thats why congressmen schiff is dead on the money here and why it will be so important if the committee makes a request to the justice department to ...

Of law, but its not going to be easy. >> the committee has already extended the deadline so they can continue negotiations they are supposed to be engaging with the committee. how limited are the powers of the department of justice and congress that this type of situation, in this type of situation, and where could we be if were just waiting months and months -- they could essentially torpedo the committee to some extent by just not complying with this. >> donald trump and the people around him ...

Movie before the last several years. trump administration was expert at playing the delay game, right? and it works. don mcgahn, we waited two years and we did, but it was after trump left office, right, and long after people really remembered why it was being brought in. >> couple of things there, number one, the parties, political and individual, are just different now. and when you have a republican congress and/or republican president, theyre less likely, sadly, to pursue subpoenas. the othe...

Declaration by the committee in effect that we know how urgent this is. we know that if we dont move immediately we can lose all of the ground here that we have and the time can run out. we heard committee members today saying that they are in some negotiations with some other witnesses but if they get the feeling that those negotiations are just a delay game, theyre going to hit them with the criminal contempt also. >> i think there are two pressures on them. one is the legislative clock as you...

This key role. as you pointed out, congress moves forward with criminal contempt. the doj would then be responsible for taking on the prosecution, and historically there really hasnt been much success in that, so what do you expect-maker garland to do? >> yeah. theres been no success in terms of charging criminal contempt by the justice department for the past half century. its been over 50 years since weve seen a justice department actually bring those charges. why is a good question. its polit...

For purposes of january 6th investigations, the subject is of such tremendous importance that he will not exert executive privilege. trump can go to court and claim he still has some rights but you can understand how ridiculous that is, even if, for instance, people like steve bannon who wasnt working in the white house could theoretically be covered by executive privilege, which bannon cant be, the notion that every former living president could exert privilege, is unworkable. biden holds the p...

Who -- who wins here? in court. >> i think trump loses, ultimately. as tim said, we dont have a definitive answer on this question from the courts. but if you look at the purpose of executive privilege, its designed to protect the institution, not an individual. and there is precedent, by the way, for a current president exercising executive privilege over a prior president, right? im sure tim knows 2001, george w. bush was the one who exercised executive privilege over a request for bill clinto...

Critical to rural ohio as well as inner city cincinnati where we have kids doing homework at mcdonalds to get the wi-fi. >> that is a stunning image. you mentioned that famous bridge connecting your city and kentucky, which is so central and really delap dated state far long time. bide season working to pass bipartisan infrastructure reform. what message do you have for those republican lawmakers playing a delay game. why is this something that shouldnt be seen through a partisan prism? >> well,...

Its been his strategy all along to prevent the facts from coming out, to prevent witnesses from testifying to refuse to produce documents and the house will have no choice, but to either litigate those issues which ultimately, i believe, will be decided against the president, perhaps ultimately by the spoishg, but th supreme court or option b as it intends to do in part to simply add those examples of obstruction to an article of impeachment centered around obstructive conduct and simply move on...

The objective would be impeachment and beginning the process. the presidents objective is clearly what his objective has been all along. thats delay. he played a game with muellers office about will he or wont he testify. he was never going to testify, but he managed to build in a year of delay in playing the game about will he testify. now the president is having witnesses do exactly the same thing. play the delay game. this committee is going at most one witness per week on this. so the legal ...