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responsibility that every citizen, every one of us bears to perpetuate the republic. >> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster. >> it is thursday, june 30th, and the aftershocks of the bombshell testimony by former white house aide cassidy hutchinson on tuesday are still being felt in washington. the house select committee investigating the january 6 attack is now seeking more information about donald trumps actions leading up to the insurrection. this time a subpoena...

You come up with an exemption of registrati registration. >> at the meat of what it is about, is rudy have exposure? >> theres resources to unpack what he did on whose behalf he did it. this effort to bring about the removal of fethullah gulen. >> he says im not representing turkey. >> thats something the investigators will look into. if its not representing a foreign interest, whose interest is he representing to bring something that is the highest priority of the turkish president. >> and he d...

Theyre making the argument that this needs to extend to outside advisers as well. >> when has that ever happened? theres not one case -- >> it never happened. >> they say they have nothing to worry about. >> its to the extent that the office of legal counsel has opined on this. ill let you go, asha, in a second. the legal office has opined on this. >> the court may opine on this -- >> may? asha, make the counterpoint. >> chris, this is like oprah. like look under your seat, everybody has executi...

May be the strongest argument from the courts to get the information whether we need to decide if additional obstruction took place. nadler announced he had reached the agreement with the doj to refute some of the evidence behind muellers report in c contempt. now, the white house may exert executive privilege over those documents. what is going on hear? >> the white house is not going to comply unless its forced to. you will see bursts of activity. but they will use executive privile privilege....

Pushback by the white house? >> i think more than anything else, whether or not any of this is covered under executive privile privilege, that will be decided later. but the politics of this is interesting. the president is going to travel this country and point to washington. hes the incumbent president. this is hard to imagine. and hes going to run as an outsider. the great disrupter in chief. and hes going to tell them that the democrats in washington can do nothing but chase me down rabbit h...

From testifying on capitol hill. its interesting about absolute immunity, this is something different than executive privilege. the white house in the past has wanted to preserve executive impressive leprivilege but they invoked it yet. here is interesting about this in the context of the mueller report, absolute immunity comes from nixon versus fitzgerald but it protected the president from civil suits, from civil suits. it seems as though they are taking this 73 court and this decision from th...

Huckabee sanders to be interviewed, she giving her investigation that is intended for the public, no privilege. >> in a is such an interesting point you raise. there are people who at least have a claim to executive privile privilege. you saying she might be valuable because she doesnt have that private role, they could only emit. >> a lot of the taxpayers have attorneys. when they would talk to the irs it is not privileged what he would say to the attorney. that is deep trouble for the presiden...

Politics and they should not ask him to talk about private conference in a public saving. what do they leave wolf owl these? >> it is a value aversion of privile privilege. that was the famous nixons case where he was ordered to turn over the tapes. he said i cant do it. it was litigated and the supreme court 8-0, president nixon you lose. >> it is a real thing, not a fake thing. it does not apply to every conversation and the law recognizes there are system

Privile privilege. and you happen to be coming of age during one of those moments. it did not start with donald trump. he is a symptom, not the cause. >> let me start with that last line, christina, if i could. hes saying president trump, a symptom, not a cause. do you agree with that? >> i do, fundamentally. we know weve had a very long history in this nation of exclusion. weve had genocides. weve had chattel slavery. our democracy is not just young but fragile. there are a lot of things we tho...

He is certainly pushing forth racist language and pushing forth racially adverse policies. at some point we have to call it for what it is. its racism. >> there is agreement that he does seek to inflame racial tensions for political benefit. i think that is without a doubt that plays out again and again, angela, as you pointed out. he did it in the papers when he was a businessman to build up his name in new york city. he continues to do it to this day. we can debate if hes a racist or we can ju...