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>> also tonight, phil, the house judiciary committee has voted to authorize a wave of new subpoenas involving current and former members of the trump administration. tell us about that. >> reporter: thats exactly right. the investigation by the judiciary committee, obviously, its been ongoing for months. and keep in mind, in the early stages of this congress, jerry nadler, the chairman of the committee send ought requests for information related to a potential obstruction of justice investigatio...

That 6:00 p.m. deadline now ticking away that whitaker has imposed for the house judiciary committee, the chairman jerry nadler to let him know whether or not hes willing to withdraw that subpoena that was sort of preemptively issued earlier today for his testimony as we know nadler wanted to have that subpoena in his back pocket in case whitaker tried to avoid questions on executive privilege grounds. whitaker now saying thats not fair. this is a breach of the agreement. i was willing to come v...

When he was subpoenaed to appear in front of a federal grand jury by ken starrs group, and turned out to be a disaster because he was lying. what is your take on this? a president cannot be indicted while in office. if a president has the power to exercise his rights to fire an individual, and lets say hes presented with a subpoena, what does he do? >> well, he fights it, he can fight it on a number of ground, including executive privilege grounds, the basic point that greggs made and you made i...

When he was subpoenaed to appear in front of a federal grand jury by ken starrs group, and turned out to be a disaster because he was lying. what is your take on this? a president cannot be indicted while in office. if a president has the power to exercise his rights to fire an individual, and lets say hes presented with a subpoena, what does he do? >> well, he fights it, he can fight it on a number of ground, including executive privilege grounds, the basic point that greggs made and you made i...

When he was subpoenaed to appear in front of a federal grand jury by ken starrs group, and turned out to be a disaster because he was lying. what is your take on this? a president cannot be indicted while in office. if a president has the power to exercise his rights to fire an individual, and lets say hes presented with a subpoena, what does he do? >> well, he fights it, he can fight it on a number of ground, including executive privilege grounds, the basic point that greggs made and you made i...