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That people can see for themselves, quickly. >> quickly. is this about keeping trump off the ballot in 2024 or making him toxic? >> it is both. anything that trump did or anything this administration thinks that trump did they are against and with bidens numbers tanking so dramatically and with the democrat numbers in the house tanking so dramatically they are scared to death of one, losing the house next year and losing the white house very possibly to trump in 2024 so they are taking a shortsi...

Or even days, they will tell you that one of the people he brings up most frequently when he talks about the executive privilege arguments is former white house chief of staff mark meadows. and he gets in a little bit of a tizzy about why any white house chief of staff should have to be subjected to this quote unquote harassment. >> kevin mccarthys answer on the local news program was interesting. and i thought the response from thompson and cheney was also interesting. you had a great piece abo...

And trials have witnesses. and they are still relevant witnesses. and the point is, if what the house has proved is not enough and i think we have shown abuse of power thats jeopardized election integrity if i. will these four individuals have information that is relevant. its relevant that the president is telling them not to go forward because innocent men do not conceal or hide evidence. they are forthcoming and cooperative. they do that because they have nothing to hide. >> martha: all right...

Does that track with the rule of law that we talked about? on obstruction i would encourage you to think about this. in nixon it did go to the courts and nixon lost. and that was the reason nixon resigned. he resigned a few days after the supreme court ruled against him in that critical case. but in that case, the court recognized there are executive privilege arguments that can be made. it didnt say you had no right coming to us, dont darken our doorstep again. it said weve heard your arguments...

Youve heard about impeachment? does that track with the rule of law that we talk about? so on obstruction i would encourage you to think about this. in nixon, it did go to the courts and nixon lost. and that was the reason nixon resigned. he resigned a few days after the supreme court ruled against him in that critical case. but in that case, the court recognized there are executive privilege arguments that can be made. it didnt say you had no right coming to us, dont darken our doorstep again. ...

Been tested in a court one time, in a district court, and the argument was rejected. it hasnt worked its way up through the appellate courts, et cetera. the answer to your question, unfortunately, is some of this is unanswered as of right now. as to exactly what that power is. >> yeah, but dont you think that congress has the better of the argument? theres an argument that executive privilege was waived when mcgahn spent 30 hours in front of congress. this immunity argument is new to me. im not ...

Document requests, as you mentioned. but then the white house, if they choose, can try and slow walk that. any of these document requests and subpoenas for testimony can be held up for at least a year, if not multiple years if the white house wants to litigate those or the parties involved want to litigate those. so one idea of this strategy that nadler is taking where it looks like a fishing expedition, part of that might be to get the ball rolling on what is going to start out being negotiatio...

Say that might be a matter of executive privilege so im going to consult with the white house to see if i can exert executive privilege ahead of this. nadler wants to know ahead of time. and if they do, nadler is prepared to get into that battle. >> right. again, i think this is smart tactic. he sort of got away the positive and negative of giving the questions in advance so he can prepare his answers and also being able to see, you know, what executive privilege arguments theyre going to make. ...

Come into this hearing room and say that might be a matter of executive privilege so im going to consult with the white house to see if i can exert executive privilege ahead of this. nadler wants to know ahead of time. and if they do, nadler is prepared to get into that battle. >> right. again, i think this is smart tactic. he sort of got away the positive and negative of giving the questions in advance so he can prepare his answers and also being able to see, you know, what executive privilege ...

>> yeah. theres that. >> theres that. i mean, theres -- we know that hes saying manafort did not fully cooperate and were going to have filings about that. but it really is the fact that there are investigations that are criminal in nature and that are redacted in documents that have been filed before the court and we also know that hes fighting about documents and evidence from company "a," which is controlled by a foreign government that is fighting him on delivering those documents. >> you ha...