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Interviews. per white house instruction, she skipped mondays hearing where she was scheduled to testify about these allegations. in a letter to the committee, the white house counsel claimed, quote, ms. conway cannot be compelled to testify before congress with with respect to matters related to her service as a senior adviser to the president. the chairman scheduled a july 25 vote to hold her in the house oversight committee promised to hold her in contempt with congress if she refused to testi...

Decision to terminate comey could be the end of the presidency. on monday, her turn to testify before the house comes up. will she show up? will she talk. also stone walling, does that give nadler more fire power. great to have you with us. the house judiciary chairman is saying the answers they were not provided with is foder for an argument that the white house shouldnt argue with this immunity or executive privilege over these questions. >> yes, they had to go through that to establish a an e...

Forcing the disclosure of that. there is room. >> there might be national security issues and things not suitable for the public domain? >> yes. i worry about using the executive privilege over everything will make other things meaningless. president trump says im fighting all the subpoenas and refuse to answer anything, it really loses credibility when he does try to assert it. >> assess house chairman nadlers chances. how does this work and what happens? >> i think there is a strong likelihood...

>> yes. what i worry is using executive privilege over everything, then it will be rendered meaningless down the road. it is something thats important to use judiciously, selectively. when president trump says im fighting all the subpoenas, im refusing to answer anything, it really loses credibility when he does try to assert it. >> assess house chairman jerry nadlers chances. how does this work as he sues, as he goes to court, and what happens? >> i think there is a very strong likelihood that ...

Not provided with is fodder for an argument that the white house shouldnt argue for this immunity or this executive privilege over some of these questions. >> yes. they had to go through that exercise yesterday, i think, to establish the record that the white house was indeed going to invoke this idea of executive immunity, its important to explain what that is. >> its a difference between privilege and immunity? >> it is. its a degree even greater than executive privilege. what theyre saying th...

How does this work as he sues, as he goes to court, and what happens? >> i think there is a very strong likelihood that the committee prevails on this argument. this idea of immunity, executive immunity has been addressed by just one court. its been rejected by that court. i dont see any reason to think it will come out differently. but they had to go through that exercise yesterday to build the record, show the judge was -- whats happening. the courts are reluctant to get involved but here wher...

In russia prior to the election at length and in detail even though trump denied it. it gets to this question of what kind of leverage potentially did russia have over a president, or a candidate campaigning to be president at the same time he was trying to make money in russia. >> we have to turn and ask about hope hicks. im not entirely sure why democrats were surprised but hope hicks refused to answer more than 150 questions from lawmakers, citing executive immunity. many of the questions wer...

Before the administration and afterwards. she did finally answer questions about that conversation but only in general terms saying they reminisced about campaign rallies. so it seems that it is incumbent upon the democrats in congress if they want to get answers, substantive answers to these questions, to push it, to go to court, to get a ruling that these questions need to be answered. >> do you buy, tim, that jerry nadler house judiciary chair is making the argument, hope hicks unwillingness ...

Money payments made to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal through michael cohen, the presidents former personal lawyer whos now serving prison time for his unrelated offenses, unrelated to hope hicks. so what were learning is that she is cooperating where the law is allowing her to. democrats say they will take it to court to compel her to answer all of the questions. but at this point, shes adhering to the presidents directive that she not answer questions about her time in government service. a...

To shut all of this down. story i was just discussing. thats something we havent seen his trump tower condo, these new this before. the only judge to have ruled on pictures well explain next. r co pictures, well explain next. nw pictures well explain next. executive immunity and executive pictures, well explain next privilege was judge bates from the d.c. district who was cog this in the context of harriet meyers and white house testimony with regard to the firing of assistant -- firing of u.s. ...