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One is in the typical oversight area, that is nonimpeachment oversight, typically the executive and the congress try to work it out. the congress has executive privilege claims that he or she may want to make and the congress wants the testimony and they try to work out some accommodations so that the president can protect the privilege to some extent but the congress receives the information that it wants. but now were in impeachment. and the congress is making the case, and i think it is obvio...

Endangers that claim. that was the point that bolton and cupperman made. they said we have never done anything like that, and we dont want mulvaney in our action. they claim theyre completely neutral. they will do what the court directed them to do. whereas in mulvaneys case he appeared to be pro-executive. he had a position in the case, and they didnt want his position to tar their more neutral position. >> it is striking to me that a lot of this -- we have talked about this a bit before as we ...

This is systemic. i think when the nation, and i think the american people and the rest of congress and the senate found out this was systemic, you know, theres a lot of things that need to happen now, but this say great opportunity. and im grateful that the secretary has stepped aside. im grateful that the president said today that this needs to be an urgent action type of thing. it does need to have urgent action. i think thats one of the things thats been missing. the slow response, just the ...