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But i would defer to her on that question. >> lets defer to her then. >> talk about where the investigation is parallel investigation is going. >> absolutely, there are parallel investigations, house oversight committee, senate judiciary looking into the final days of the trump administration, what was going on with trump officials that led to the january 6th insurrection and whats happening with donald trump and his other officials pressuring the justice department to try to overturn results of...

They sided with judge jackson, judge jackson sided that ruling in her opinion, it just doesnt hold water, and the executive privilege argument, i think, im not a lawyer, but i think that is a difficult one, too, because mcgann already provided his story tole mueller investigation. i keep going back to the simple need that congress is our representatives, our most direct representatives in washington, the people, and they have to be able to conduct oversight over the executive branch which could ...

The white house chief of staff, acting or otherwise, to testify? because im guessing youre going to want to hear from mr. mulvaney now and hes going to have that powerful executive privilege argument to make. how is that going to work? >> you know, as a practical matter, i think if he asserts -- if the president asserts executive privilege, its going to be tough to overcome. but, you know, you just take what is in the public domain. the presidents release of the transcript of his call with the p...

Be the process for going about to get the full thing? >> obviously, thats one thing subpoena because form normally you would say theres a great executive privilege argument, this is after a presidential conversation. but theyve already released the summary or summary transcript so i think that is not going to be a strong argument here. but at the end of the day what weve seen from this white house is their position is they dont really care, theyll just say no and article 3, the third article was...

Totally stonewalled us. nixon got up and said look at all the documents im turning over. he had these three ring binders. he says ive given everything but of course they were doctored transcripts. and when we compare the transcripts against the actual tapes there were not just explitiv explitives deleted but things added and you cant trust it. >> right, the transcript we saw recalls, right, infamously the nixon tapes have this section. it doesnt seem to time out. what would be the process for go...

President pence. he released a transcript of this call. we dont know if it was a word for word readout. several of the documents relate to prep for this call, talking points, memorandum and communications that relate to that call. with that chunk of documents, youre the legal expert here, the executive privilege argument holds less water. at the same time i think we can expect to see this request go to other cabinet officials that may have been involved. mick mulvaney should probably expect a su...

Jurisdiction. its not up to us to notify congress. weve also suggested that this might trip on executive privilege argument which always points to the president or senior officials at the white house. >> it is interesting to me because as we know the president does have power to declassify information. we also know the president has been loose with classified information. he just has. this has been an issue dating back to oval office meetings with the russian ambassador. he tweeted maps from ira...

From questioning former white house communications director hope hicks behind closed doors. i want to discuss now. jennifer rogers is here. ali as well. good evening to both of you. so jennifer, you argue that the most important thing that hicks could shed light on was when she worked -- actually worked in the white house. what do you make of the white house counsel, the attempt there to limit her testimony? because, you know, she was huge during the campaign. even before. >> yeah, and she, i me...

Trouble. it will be used to protect her and it will have to go to court to determine. >> way back in the day there used to be briefings and we covered them, and i did during my time, she talked with special counsel and robert muellers team always. they cited her interviews specifically 73 times. her name shows up 100 times overall in the mueller report. you can see some of the ways shes mentioned here. it is the first shot today that somebody who was this close to him since the mueller report ca...

Were back with our political and legal experts and jeffrey toobin, as you know, the white house in this letter sent to jerry nadler, the chairman of the judiciary committee, has instructed their two former white house officials, hope hicks and annie donaldson not to comply with congressional subpoenas for information about what they were doing at the white house during all of this controversy. how strong of a legal argument do they make? >> well, if this were just starting from scratch, i think ...