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Obstructing congress in his refusal to allow some of these witnesses to show up to provide testimony. for now, this means a huge win for democrats arguing the presidents aides do not have absolute immunity. obviously, theres a lot of other people the democrats have been looking to possibly bring in for testimony. john bolton is at the top of that list. its not clear whether this ruling would apply to john bolton. hes in a different category. according to this judge nobody is above having to resp...

Judge has said don mcgahn and the presidents aides dont enjoy absolute immunity, dont have to show up essentially. the administration has been arguing they dont have to show up to respond to these subpoenas. don mcgahn has been fighting the sympathy 7 months now. according to the judges ruling, it goes without saying the law applies to former white house counsel don mcgahn just as it does to other current and senior white house officials. the implications are huge. if this ruling stands, don mcg...

Everyone should come forward and testify i dont think we will see officials lining up to do this. >> jeffrey toobin is going through this decision by this federal judge. whats jumping out at you? >> this is a tremendous victory for the house of representatives. the question is, is it a symbolic victory because of the element of time? the issue here is when any of these former or current white house aides will testify. this is a victory but its just the beginning of the legal process. the white h...

Mueller panel. >> he did. 30 hours with the executive branch testifying within the special prosecutor. this is the question whether or not he has to go before congress and answer congresss question in an adversarial setting and sets significant precedent for the impeachment now and will make much harder for them to claim they dont have to recognize the subpoenas at all. >> i think thats true. we are going to see everyone fighting a subpoena come up with their own unique argument for why they are...

Year. the question is will any actual testimony come forward at a time useful to the democrats for the impeachment process. >> will don mcgahn, the former white house counsel need to await legal appeals by the white house or justice department or potentially could he make a decision on his own, since he has been ordered to appear before the house of representatives by this u.s. district court judge, can he decide to obey what the judge ordered? >> he could. but my sense is having gone this far h...

Representatives even though the justice department just announced they will appeal this decision. and the president has been give an victory from the supreme court ruling the president, for now, not necessarily, for now, give up 8 years of his tax records to the house of representatives. significant on both fronts, susan. >> it is significant. they set a briefing schedule december 5th, intending they intend to move rather rapidly on this case and willing to grant an administrative stay indicatin...

Allegation in the obstruction of justice over details in the mueller report. he says now that the court has ruled i expect him to follow his legal obligations and properly appear before the committee. that is the expectation of jerry nadler. he says now that the court has ruled, time to come and testify. if you dont want to testify, thats your obligation. you can certainly not answer questions, claim privilege, as this judge said. what nadler is saying here, he needs to appear before his committ...

Shouldnt. don mcgahn could reject that advice especially now he has a district court opinion on his side. given the fact he went this far, it seems to me its likely he will wait for the appellate process to play itself out. youre making a good point he could decide to testify tomorrow and have the protection of this district court opinion. >> he did spend 30 hours testifying before the mueller report inquiry. >> he did. but that was at a different time when the white house wasnt interposing thes...