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Profound question is what are you resisting in what are you hiding? why dont you come forward? why dont you do it voluntarily? no speech and debate problem? no executive privilege problem, and he is choosing not to cooperate, and therefore the justice department has to litigate, and perhaps he hoping it will take too much time, and he can play the same game of rope a dope in the courts that donald trump played for years, but there is nothing that precludes him from doing this, and the public nee...

Predictable fashion. the role of the courts has become highly problematic because delay is very often -- the courts are now a haven for delay with respect to executive privilege determinations. i think we need to look at that as well. senator kennedy and i had a hearing on the executive privilege problem in the court subcommittee. the department of justice wasnt represented at that hearing. i would like to ask you to detail somebody from the department of justice to talk to senator kennedy and m...

0 about a conversation that im not -- >> im stunned that you cant recall that. so lets talk about afghanistan. the secretary -- undersecretary for defense policy, mr. kael says, isis-k poses a short term external threat al qaeda could launch attacks outside afghanistan within a year or two. do you agree with that? >> i agree that al qaeda has always presented and continues to present a persistent threat to the united states homeland. >> the question is whats changed? you say always. has any rece...

About national security issues. there are no national security issues here. this will be adjudicated and it will go against the white house. >> in the mueller probe? >> yeah, the mueller probe and maybe even in the house and the in senate in the sense that you cant claim executive privilege if youre trying to hide a crime in the executive branch. >> i think thats why youre seeing this really, really aggressive effort to discredit mueller because i think everybody knows that the congressional inq...