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Asserted in 1794, this is crazy what democrats are doing and the american people get it but the hard left to control the democrat party they are going to keep doing this kind of stuff if we dont stop them so we have to speak out and make sure the next election is coming, the american people again to say time out to all this garbage from all the bad policy and all the things you are doing to violate the constitution in sacred principles and president weve had in this country since the first presi...

Other seven republicans who did vote to refer steve bannon, chris. >> so pete, the timing obviously, the members of committee would like the doj to make a ruling immediately. but do they feel that pressure at all, is there any indication of how quickly we might hear something? >> no, none at all. and they dont do this very often before the bannon decision it had been decades before the justice department had actually presented a contempt citation to a grand jury. so, i would say, you know, it is...

Im not, i would think this comes down on a decision not to prosecute. but also, you know, in the interim he could change his mind or it could resolve the executive privilege question. and the text messages show why that is so important, maybe meadows doesnt get prosecuted again. >> phil, how is all of this being processed by the former president, his closest advisors and others exposed by those text messages? >> this has not been a good week in terms of january 6th investigations for the former ...

A long list of reasons why meadows believes he cannot testify, again the executive privilege question that they believe is still hanging in the balance. further, they are really urging the committee not to follow through with the criminal contempt charge because they feel that meadows is a good faith actor and doesnt feel that he can offer this information so its totally inappropriate for the committee to go after him criminally when hes trying to do the right thing. the committee has always mai...

Also the lead house manager for the second impeachment of donald trump and he joins me now. congressman, lets first start on this statement by psaki today and the executive privilege question. last night we were gaming this out a little bit. the ex-president says hes going to invoke it, the current president says he will not. what does that add up to constitutionally and practically for your committee? >> when the former president says hes going to invoke executive privilege, its got to make you...

Necessarily embedded in the law, but can you imagine the chaos with all the anonymous things that would be coming in? the intelligence community is different than any other one in congress. it is deemed an urgent concern, then they automatically have to produce this to the intel committee. that was the schism. did this qualify? does this not qualify? i think, having heard the hours of testimony from the director of national intelligence, it was proceeding with caution because of the executive pr...

There is he would have to be held accountable by being referred for criminal prosecution by bill barr and we all suspect that is unlikely to happen but to go to your executive privilege question, he does not enjoy executive privilege because he wasnt an adviser to the president, he wasnt a member of the administration there is no court in the land, supreme court or otherwise, who has ever said, you know, if the president has conversations with private citizens and tells them to deliver messages ...

Were talking about breaking news broken by my colleague that the house judiciary committee is getting ready to compel don mcgahn, one of the star witnesss testimony. >> get to it. if the house is going to compel don mcgahn they are going to get challenged on a bunch of issues including privilege. that will be litigated. one way, you need as many arguments as you can muster, open an impeachment inquiry. once thats open privilege would give away to a legitimate impeachment inquiry. look, i think i...

Executive privilege. on the executive privilege question, the white house has argued that when they allowed people like don mcgahn to talk with the special counsel, robert mueller, about their conversations with the president, this was a sharing of information within the executive branch. but it still meant that executive privilege still stood and that if the information was shared outside of the special counsel with congress, the white house would remain in a position to assert or invoke execut...

Already considerable. again to go back to this executive privilege question, if the white house wants to take a hard line here and -- on executive privilege, they could say that the conversations between james comey and donald trump are covered by executive privilege. those where he said, you know -- where the president supposedly said i want loyalty, go easy on michael flynn. you know, the white house is going to have a real question here about how much they want to exert executive privilege. a...