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Starr. thank you for coming on the beat about this. >> thanks for having me. >> did you know in the leadup to that that president clinton would ultimately testify voluntarily after getting the subpoena? or was in athat a genuine quest in your office as it may be in muellers tonight where you thought you would have to litigate it out. >> once we decided to issue the subpoena we didnt really have any doubt that he was going to testify in some format. and we had the authority of u.s. versus nixon w...

Executive privilege. one summed it up, who do you want on your side if mueller decides to subpoena the president? you want your wartime consignaturely airy. emmitt is a quintessential wartime consignaturely airy. look. here he was in an interview just this morning, his last interview about this change. >> its certainly not off the table. and people are working hard to make decisions and work toward an interview. and assuming that can be concluded favorably, there will be an interview. >> trump l...

Bill to protect muellers investigation but mitch mcconnell and paul ryan are now against it. joining me former democratic senator from wisconsin russ feingold. you know paul ryan. he is leaving congress. wouldnt this be the time to step up? >> its time for everybody to step up. when trump was elected, the expression watergate was sort of a drip, drip, drip confident allegations. it was already a right there moderate rain and in the last 18 months is, its become an incredible downpour. we are at ...

Bob mueller does not have that authorization. so there is a real potential legal argument the trump people can make saying this isnt a justicible issue because mueller does not have the right -- it is an intraranch dispute. mueller does not have the right to question my implication of executive privilege. >> you says justice shl and intrabranch. you know you are getting me excited. >> [ laughter ] >> this is something we were discussing at the very top of our show tonight. and you are putting yo...

A middle ground? lets have some consensus here? it is a to the going to happen. hes going to fight this every step of the kay way. i think this thing is -- >> you sir -- guy, you are sort of making legal news or news for nerds because you know a lot of the law here and you know a of the will of the people. as i mentioned, including mueller. you are predicting tonight based on what happened today, that this fight over donald trump testifying is going to go all the way to the supreme court? >> i d...

Their stories mattered. we are in a different place now in 2018 than we were in 2016 when it first came in. >> right. and to end on the same song we began with from liz, wait for the kicker. maybe well keep waiting for the kicker. thank you both. jess mcintosh and liz plank. coming up, donald trump is threatening the justice department directly with new calls for rod rosenstein to step aside. whats the gop doing about it? former senator russ fine gold joins me. also, will all of this lead to...

Body to go down there. >> i am a recovering lawyer, but it doesnt take lawyer the know that the central lesson on watergate is that no one is above the law, not the president. not anybody else. and there is nothing in the constitution that says the president needs to be treated differently when it comes to routine things like interviews with a prosecutor. and also keep in mind that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and robert mueller are very aware that the president might fire them. yet th...

So even if it doesnt become law, today was a very significant day. were going to continue to push forward to have this become law, because ultimately, i think in this country, we want special counsel to be largely protected from interference by the president. >> you mentioned that its important even if it doesnt become law. if it does not get passed by both houses and signed by the president, do you currently take the position that a special counsel, any special counsel, including mueller, would...

Where you know what you see on top but you dont know whats underneath. i suspect that mueller has a lot more evidence and information than has been -- has been reported. so i think hes pretty far down the line on a lot of issues. thats not to say i think this is coming to a quick close. >> well, let me ask you to speculate on another front and that is what form this will take. do you think the special counsel will emerge and lay his findings at the feet of americans and congress and say here it ...

Issue a subpoena to you and as long as its a proper subpoena, which this one is, you cant just flat out reject it. but you can ask your lawyer to work with prosecutors perhaps to give you a little bit more time to come -- comply if youre being asked to go through a lot of documents. but having thrown down the gauntlet saying he wouldnt show up and it would be funny if he put him in jail, i think sam nunberg has not put himself in a good bargaining position with mueller in terms of getting any ty...