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Subset of the information about the presidents conduct in the days leading up to that, and including on january 6th. so he certainly is not the sole source of information about what took place. and we are approaching others that can share information about that. but i will say this also. his executive privilege claims are very remote and improbable of any success. whats more, he failed to show up, and thats not an executive privilege issue. thats a claim of absolute immunity, and no one enjoys a...

Bring it right to the grand jury which would determine whether or not to indict. the interesting thing is theres not a lot of precedent about this. the u.s. attorney back in 2015 declined to bring charges against lois lerner and in 1983, it did only take eight days from the time of referral to bring it to a grand jury. that was in a case involving an epa official. she was ultimately, though, acquitted. in this case, theres a lot more at play. this whole executive privilege issue which, of course...

On january tormented the violence that occurred onjanuary six. tormented the violence that occurred on january six. and tormented the violence that occurred onjanuary six. and these novel legal theories that his lawyers put forth on monday while they will likely be ultimately found to lack merit in the courts, simply by filing this lawsuit he can throw a significant ranch in the very important operations of the january six select committee for that which is looking into the urgent question of wh...

Unfolded on january 6th. theyre going to be very forward leaning in terms of supporting the select committee and i think thats good news for people that want to get to the bottom of what happened. >> elliott, bannons lawyers say they are waiting for the executive privilege issue to be resolved and in a statement write in part that is an issue between the committee and president trumps counsel and mr. bannon is not required to respond at this time. does he have a legal leg to stand on? >> he does...

>> elliott, bannons lawyers say they are waiting for the executive privilege issue to be resolved and in a statement write in part that is an issue between the committee and president trumps counsel and mr. bannon is not required to respond at this time. does he have a legal leg to stand on? >> he doesnt. to be clear when you look at the four different witnesses well see over the next two days, two of them and particularly one in the form of mark meadows actually have a little legal leg to stand...

Lawyers who simply say on the executive privilege issue, i had private conversations that are protected because those are executive branch and the president should reveal those. i think this has a long way to go. i would be surprised if they just rolled over. im not sure i would if i were them. i was asked questions by the congress periodically and the response was, i cant answer that because its a conversation i had in the white house. i realize this is a sensitive issue, but do you want presid...

How about the recipients of said subpoenas, the likelihood theyre going to actually adhere? >> it depends. you cant just ignore a congressional subpoena unless you have the grounds to do so. now -- >> i dont even know what that means. >> well, if you have the grounds -- if you are a regular plain citizen, congress subpoenas you, you know, you are a regular run-of-the-mill person you have to go talk to congress. thats a subpoena, they can enforce that. now, if you are a member of congress, they c...

Of course she could stay her ruling while its appealed. it could be appealed and that would take months to resolve. and so im curious to exactly how she writes the opinion, and whether other people reading it will go and testify even if its appealed. >> so i want to draw that out for a minute because there are a number of other former and current trump administration officials who are currently not obeying subpoenas from house democrats. some of them have said the white house told me not to go. ...

Before. >> well, i agree with you again. i want to be clear about it. i think john bolton should come forward. i do not understand and nobody has ever given me an answer why it is again that colonel vindman, dr. hill and mr. morrison can all come forward of their own volition and respond. >> martha: i think its probably because he worked so closely with the president. its a much more high level executive privilege issue. they all maintain that they didnt have much interaction with the president ...

Thing for mr. volker and others to do is come before the committee and be completely honest. if there something that has a classification issue, lets work through it. if theres something with a an executive privilege issue, lets work through it. getting answers is the most important. i would encourage house democratic colleagues to wait and read the information because they have already formed judgments and strategy. they know what they want to get to. they have the facts or the -- they dont hav...