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My guess is they wont get everything. that is, mr. meadows will continue through counsel to claim executive privilege and then the committee has to decide whether its worth pressing those specific questions before court. thats normally how it goes. you sit for a deposition or interview and then your counsel raises objections question by question. mr. meadows is doing what professional lawyers tend to do which is very different from mr. bannon who really has no legal right to completely say im no...

They sent a flurry ute all tout time. you name it, fast and furious, didnt that start with a whistleblower too? >> exactly. republicans love whistleblowers when obama was president and they issued hundreds of subpoenas, joe, going from trey guad i do when darryl was the committee chairman for the first part of this decade. they didnt hesitate to unleash every mechanism of congressional authority and oversight prerogative as possible. they held hundreds of hearings, hundreds of depositions and di...

Instrumental in allowing this president to completely destroy the pillars of our check-and-balance system. no showing congressional hearings, all the conflict between the oversight prerogative of congress and the executive branch has been spearheaded and masterminded by william barr. so i think that is why we are in the situation in the first place. i think it is also important to note that republicans have by and large stood by and allowed all of this to happen, completely contradicting everyth...