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You were mentioning a second ago that this may be an executive privilege case, and is that merited here? >> so first of all this whole idea of its not an impeachment inquiry until the house votes on it, is creative. what theyre trying to do is force the democrats hand, force them to vote yes or no to put the people who are in swing districts in danger. i still dont think the president and the white house are going to say, now you get everything. theyre going to go with the were fighting all the ...

Congressman steve king, it is time for him to go. today, federal judge ruling against house democrats and their quest number one former white house done began to testify and two access to grand jury materials from the mueller report. politico calling it a blow to house democrats as they inched towards the prospect of impeachment proceedings. lets talk about it fox news contributor lindsay marshall and assistant deputy attorney general, welcome to you both. >> high matt, shannon. >> shannon: the ...

>> gop caucus chair says steve king, quote, is it time for him to go? today federal judge ruling against house democrats in a twin quest to force white house counsel don began to testify and for access to grand jury materials from the mueller report? political calling it a, quote, below to house democrats as they installed the process of impeachment proceedings. lets talk about it with leslie marshall and former deputy assistant attorney general john you. what happened today? the judge said he j...

And this is just going to become the next front in whats becoming more and more of a legal battle between the house and the trump administration. you know, theyve gotten some favorable views from the courts in terms of the house, and i dont know where exactly the court is going to come down. mcgahn is a private citizen, so there could be that argument made, but, obviously, there is the executive privilege case that could be made. >> well talk to you again in a little bit. thank you. lets switc...

Counterparts. weve been consulting with the lawyers, also. what is the best case, what arguments might the white house make? it looks to me on the surface that they dont have much of an executive privilege case to make. that privilege really normally applies when the president is seeking advice from his counselors and theres a policy interest in making sure that he has the free and unfettered opinion of those. thats not the case when hes speaking to a foreign leader and is speaking to that forei...

And kept bringing up withdrawing from nato, that is an idea so much at odds with our national security interests on a very bipartisan basis, theres recognition of the tremendous value to our security that, you know, it is all the more inexplicable in the absence of some compromise. >> you and the majority on your committee now have subpoena power. do you intend to try to subpoena the interpreter or get the notes? its my understanding, i believe theres been some reporting the president actually t...

From this next week and, you know, on the executive privilege case, your panelists made a pretty convincing argument trump would be hard pressed to follow through with that and if he really wanted executive privilege, again, he would not have fired comey. remember, many presidents including president george w. bush wanted to fire the fbi director and avoided doing so in part for some of these reasons. >> im going to put yut on the spot for a really quick answer on the significance of bob mueller...