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But to my mind, this is not a serious legal case from trump just like these other cases, asserting an absolute right. from a legal standpoint, as i think you two would confirm, this is just absurd. theres no real basis for this in the case law, but it makes a lot of sense from a political standpoint because i think what trump is trying to do is basically run out the clock to kick this can down the road and to get past the election on the assumption that whatever horrors are buried in his finance...

Oversight. >> max, as she mentioned about the power of the supreme court during the clinton era, about saying, hey, we are a co-equal branch. were going to flex our power. what do you take from this as the judicial branch? are they really asserting their authority here to let people know they will weigh in potentially on issues that are of political importance? >> well, i mean i think its not too surprising that the supreme court does want to weigh in at least to decide whether they want to gran...

The supreme court tonight giving president trump a brief reprieve, granting his emergency request to block a house subpoena from seeing his financial records. the justices are now going to have to decide, though, whether to actually take up the case after lower courts already ruled against the president. back with me, max boot and kim wehle. kim, if the court takes up this case, it would actually be huge to do so. i mean it would be really the first major separation of powers sort of case on the...

Thats not binding. and she said, listen, this 2008 ruling, im just going to piggyback on that. >> max, mel brooks said its good to be the king. but this judge has said now that presidents of course are not kings. so how big of a rebuke is this to the administration to hear this from a judge? >> well, i think its an important symbolic rebuke even if the practical import of it is not clear as kim suggested. you know, in fact, you may continue to see fights over trying to compel testimony from othe...

(people talking) for every dollar you spend at a small business, an average of 67 cents stays local. shop small and watch it add up. small business saturday by american express is november 30th. heres what cnn is learning. indicted associate of rudy giuliani is willing to tell congress about meetings devin nunes had last year with an exukrainian official to get dirt on joe biden. according to the attorney representing parness. he was indicted on federal campaign finance charges last month and ...

The secretary of state. >> reporter: i apologize, that was from one of our own cnn colleagues speaking with rudy giuliani earlier today. and despite rudy giulianis denials, again we now have these emails that show rudy giulianis assistant e-mailing president trumps then-assistant to organize this call with the secretary of state. what this really does is put a finer point on secretary of state mike pompeos involvement in all of this. the secretary of state has really tried to stay as far away fr...

But what he needs to be doing is going to congress, raising his right hand and telling the american people what he knows especially because the defense youre hearing from the white house is its all hearsay, that the people in the room arent talking. well, they need to start talking and bolton was one of the people in the room. >> and mick mulvaney. do you think hell do it? should he be testifying, john? >> he absolutely should be. what my first reaction to the twitter issue was that they conside...

Heres what cnn is learning tonight, that an indicted associate of rudy giuliani is willing to tell congress about meetings devin nunes had last year with an ex-ukrainian official to get dirt on joe biden. that is according to the attorney representing lev parnas. remember parnas was indicted on federal campaign finance charges last month. he also reportedly discussed ukraine with president trump at a dinner in 2018. vicky ward is here with the details along with max boot and john dean. good even...

The same things i believed before donald trump came along, including things like the importance of character which is what republicans were saying when they were impeaching bill clinton. and now all the sudden when its donald trump who is a thousand times worse than bill clinton ever was, character no longer seems to matter to republicans. so i think its just dismay be to see how few republicans have maintained any degree of consistency in this trump presidency. >> max boot, i appreciate your pe...

Witness. that question about the president not giving an "s," ive made it through about 70 pages of the transcript in the short time ive had it, and i read that section, and theyre actually leading questions. he asked sondland if the president gave an "s," and the sondland responded back, he didnt give an "s." don, one of the other interesting things that i was alert to was the fact that holmes reported that russia either owns or has a stake in all three of the mobile telephone companies in ukra...