Congressional subpoenas and cant be forced to testify before congress. Lets bring in attorney david rifkin, he served during the reagan and georg george h. W. Buh administrations. Welcome. Thank you for coming today. David, how strong is this president s case for saying that his aides dont have to testify because of this immunity . Very strong. It is a wellestablished immunity, paul, dates back to 1971, an opinion written by william republica renquist, been reaffirmed in nine administrations and both parties, fully case law. Ittheres a group of people tht see the president every day, he communicates with them, the 1971 opinion says the president is a coequal branch, he cannot command that members of congress appear before him. They cannot command he appears before them. I want to emphasize one more point. The reason the president has a strong position, theres another form of absolute immunity based upon 1989 opinion, he went on to be a chief judge in the fourth circuit. That stands for
Congressional subpoenas and cant be forced to testify before congress. Lets bring in attorney david rifkin, he served during the reagan and georg george h. W. Buh administrations. Welcome. Thank you for coming today. David, how strong is this president s case for saying that his aides dont have to testify because of this immunity . Very strong. It is a wellestablished immunity, paul, dates back to 1971, an opinion written by william republica renquist, been reaffirmed in nine administrations and both parties, fully case law. Ittheres a group of people tht see the president every day, he communicates with them, the 1971 opinion says the president is a coequal branch, he cannot command that members of congress appear before him. They cannot command he appears before them. I want to emphasize one more point. The reason the president has a strong position, theres another form of absolute immunity based upon 1989 opinion, he went on to be a chief judge in the fourth circuit. That stands for
Cant be forced to testify before congress. Lets bring in attorney david rifkin, he served during the reagan and georg george h. W. Buh administrations. Welcome. Thank you for coming today. David, how strong is this president s case for saying that his aides dont have to testify because of this immunity . Very strong. It is a wellestablished immunity, paul, dates back to 1971, an opinion written by william republica renquist, been reaffirmed in nine administrations and both parties, fully case law. Ittheres a group of people tht see the president every day, he communicates with them, the 1971 opinion says the president is a coequal branch, he cannot command that members of congress appear before him. They cannot command he appears before them. I want to emphasize one more point. The reason the president has a strong position, theres another form of absolute immunity based upon 1989 opinion, he went on to be a chief judge in the fourth circuit. That stands for the proposition that Nation
is a small business getting a big boost from this political race and also capitalizing on a growing industry here in the granite state which we talk a lot about. the democratic contenders for president are making a final pitch to supporters before everybody heads to the polls tomorrow. after the disaster that was iowa, they certainly want to make sure every evening. we ll get to all of that. first we begin with fox business team coverage of the stop stories of the day. blake burman is at the white house. susan li on the floor of the new york stock exchange. blake, first to you. reporter: on this day president trump trying to steal the spotlight a bit from democrats as he set to head any moment now to new hampshire for a campaign rally there later this evening. earlier today the the tried to needle some of those democratic candidate taking to twitter at one point, connell, the budget calls for $740 billion in defense spending. 150 billion less than that in non-discretionary sp
Lets bring in constitutional attorney david rivkin. He served in the White House Counsels Office during the reagan and george h. W. Bush administrations. David welcome. Thank you for coming today. So, david, how strong is this president s case for saying that his aides dont have to testify because of this immunity . Very strong. It is a well established immunity, paul. It dates back to 971. 1971. The opinion written by a Young William rehnquist who, as you know, went on to be a chief justice of the United States. Been reaffirmed in nine administrations under both parties, its a very simple proposition. Its called the mediad vising immunity. Immediate advising immunity. They cannot command that he appears before them, those people are essentially his alter egos. But i want too emphasize one moe pointfo, theres another form of absolute immunity that is based upon a 1988 opinion by mike ludig. That stands for the proposition that National Security information, no matter in whose hands it