days will be voted out of the full house and go to the department of justice. i think there is a real open question about what happens when this lands on merrick garland s zesk. and you worked add a government lawyer, worked in the white house, you have sort of been around the people that will be making decisions on this. i wonder what your perspective is on it. well, i think the good sign is in the letter from white house counsel dana remus that rejected any serious claims of executive privilege in turning over documents. she made clear this is a unique and exceptional circumstance. it s important to remember what the stakes are here, which is that steve bannon and donald trump very much want the failed coup attempt of last year to be practiced for a future successful coup attempt. one way to do that is to do what trump and bannon has been trying to do since day one, prove that rules don t matter, that laws are for losers, that they are above the law. and for lang time they have
swerdlick joins us now. you even have the pro-israel group apac opposing the president s support for israel barring congresswomen ilhan omar and rashida tlaib from going. let s step back a little bit and we know the president has been trying to prop up congresswomen omar and tlaib and some of the other liberal freshman for some time as part of the squad. when the president said last month or tweeted last month in a clearly racist comment these two congresswomen and others should go back to their home country even though they are u.s. citizens. and now the president has also and the republican party has been trying to stir these divisions and try to highlight these divisions when it comes to israel for a lang time and when we see these spikes particularly
right across the region, libya egypt, tune knee should, algeria, and mali. and nicholas burns again said this could go on for lang time. we have to be concerned because america has direct interests stake and we care about the region and want them to proceed towards democracy and towards reform if that s possible. but i think your question is a very good one, because at the same time, we re looking at generational change, and it may be we don t see the future map of the middle east. doesn t reveal itself for another 10 for 10 for years. so probably chaos for another ten 20 years, who benefits? usually the extremists. shepard: so, you need a house? just go take one. the story of a squatter, a guy who just moved in to a