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If a witness has done something to make evidence unavailable or make a witness unavailable, you could instruct the jury they could assume the worst-case scenario. any evidence that would have been produced would have been harmful it the person who made it unavailable. its akin to that, this adverse instruction. >> lets talk about giuliani for a second because thats the other unusual circumstance. rudy giuliani, last night tweeted out that everything he did, he did in the interest of his client. ...

Court? they are called adverse instructions. if a witness has done something to make evidence unavailable or make a witness unavailable, you could instruct the jury they could assume the worst-case scenario. any everyday that would have been produced would have been harmful to the person who made it unavailable. its a kin to that, this adverse instruction. >> lets talk about giuliani for a second because thats the other unusual circumstance. rudy giuliani, last night tweeted out that everything ...

But we want to let it play out in the courts first. we want to see what the courts have to say about this constitutional immunity issue the white house has been pushing so its a defense we heard from coop ehrmann a couple weeks ago. we want to play this out in the courts first, almost get the blessing of the just dish yedic testify. its troubling number one because hes not a current employee of the administration. he doesnt work in the government anymore. so there is nothing really that the whit...

In if you give us the subpoena but we want to let it play out in the courts first. we want to see what the courts have to say about this constitutional immunity issue the white house has been pushing so its a defense we heard from coop ehrmann a couple weeks ago. we want to play this out in the courts first, almost get the blessing of the judiciary to testify. its troubling number one because hes not a current employee of the administration. he doesnt work in the government anymore. so there is ...

It is right on point. >> so taylor will testify he saw a shakedown and he thought it was wrong. both of those things are key for the democrats. now, kurt volker, so special envoy to ukraine, slightly different. >> volker was a little bit more of a mixed bag. he talked to trump about this and trumps only instruction was talk to rudy. that becomes a common theme. and rudy really only wanted one thing. he wanted this public announcement of what? rudy says, if it doesnt say ba ruse ma and 2016, what...

More importantly, who is not on the hill? >> we are still here right outside the intelligence committee. no john bolton yet. but breaking this hour, we are learning boltons attorney says he plans to sue the intelligence committee if they subpoena him. we regret mr. boltons decision not to appear voluntarily but we have no interest in allowing the administration to play rope-a-dope with us in the court for months. rather the white houses instruction he not appear will add to the evidence of the p...

From the beginning, because our reporting, and nbc was first to report this, is that john bolton had signaled to the committees that he was open to appearing before house investigators but only in public, andrea. there are several caveats that he put on this offer, only in public, only if he was subpoenaed, and only if the courts gave the green light for it. now, as you mentioned, house democrats last night actually pulled the subpoena that they issued to charles kupperman who was john boltons l...

Trump-themed chopkys. red baseball hats. ill trade you a baseball hat for an extra long tie. but as the presidents personal lawyer, yet another one of them had to get his own criminal defense lawyer today. we also got big impeachment proceedings -- big developments in the impeachment proceedings on capitol hill. first of all a senior state department witness showed up to testify today. thats notable because the white house and state department have told everybody they cant testify, theyre not al...

Need to go, a lot of people particularly people who are not hyper-partisans who were just doing their job, are deciding this assertion from the white house is bull pucky, and ultimately that will be material in how the courts adjudicate whether not that instruction from the white house means anything in the face of a subpoena. watching david hale turn up today, colonel vindman, watching yovanovitch and now watching williams tomorrow, its a fascinating cast. >> theres an interesting passage in ta...

Go and testify? and why do we go and testify? >> and the white house clearly believed and mike pompeo and the state department clearly believed, oh, well just tell people theyre not going and that will be enough. and faced with a youre not going versus a lawful congressional subpoena that you need to go, a lot of people particularly people who are not hyper-partisans who were just doing their job, are deciding this assertion from the white house is bullpucky, and ultimately that will be material...