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i guess the implications of that incredible as well. will ripley, thank you so much. from taipei tonight. thanks to all of you for join us. see you back here at 9:00. "ac 360" starts now. good evening. we begin with the most immediate humanitarian crisis in the world right now. it has been three days since a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the region bordering turkey and syria. the number of dead continues to rise from hundreds to thousands to tens of thousands. right now, at least 2...

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That i would be very happy. Absolutely. Lets not forget i know we have said it. But this investigation is over. The president never sat down for an interview with Robert Mueller. Thats huge. That was always the big question and something the lawyers never wanted to happen. They were able to prevent that and a subpoena fight. Robb eert mueller never put in request that was rejected. Thats very significant. Stay with me. This is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news. Very Important News ...

Supreme court with nixonian effects potentially. >> thing is not the worst thing that ever happened to him. obviously, he did his duty on january 6th. its not surprised that he got subpoenaed. he is the central witness in an effort to overturn u.s. election and overthrow the u.s. government. so yeah, i expect to be asked a few questions. but for him politically to be drug in under subpoena as opposed to going voluntarily, maybe he thinks that works for him politically. i do think he is genuinely...

Staffer. thats something thats going to be tied up in court and we know it is going there in regards to the national archives records and another point in the letter gets to the main central point and the attorney said it would ill serve the country to rush to judgment. theyre up against the clock. the more its mired in the courts the slower it goes. they need to get the answers. >> harry, good faith invocation of executive privilege. what are they trying to say here? does meadows have standing?...

>> well, thats debatable. i believe both io bush at administration and obama administration contested the idea of the statute actually compelling the disclosure of the executive privilege stuff. according to a lot of constitutional scholars, theres a solid argument that the president could have done something absolutely terrible or said something absolutely terrible and he still within its constitutional prerogatives to keep that secret. so the law is going to be disputed in all of that and i ta...

Kushner, ivanka trump, other people around the president during these times that have had speculation on them by the special counsel, what does the report say about them? jared kushner is one of the people, he works in the white house. he has top secret security clearance. it will be interesting not only what does did say about the president but the people around him. >> however, on that issue, i mean i think that issue is answered. it may be embarrassing what they did. it is questionable. there...

Would be totally above the law. i agree with congressman nadler there. i think the executive privilege stuff is one he really shouldnt assert. if he tries to assert it, hes going to lose for exactly the reason the congressmen said, which is the nixon tapes case. so it would be one thing if its over a particular source or method or something like that, but, you know, this president has a history of using these kinds of defenses in a kind of tandanious way. >> you said something interesting about ...

That would mean that a president would be totally above the law. i agree with congressman nadler there. i think the executive privilege stuff is one he really shouldnt assert. if he tries to assert it, hes going to lose for exactly the reason the congressmen said, which is the nixon tapes case. so it would be one thing if its over a particular source or method or something like that, but, you know, this president has a history of using these kinds of defenses in a kind of t tandanious way. >> yo...