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Were promulgated. and hes somebody whos not going to have any sort of serious legal chance at shielding himself from testifying based on these privilege issues. so he is likely to be a key figure for the committee to pressure and someone who wont have a very strong ability to push back. >> thats an important point. ive got a member of congress to standby and talk about this breaking news with us. members of the proud bois and oath keepers, do we have a sense how many have been charged and going ...

He said all hell would break loose on january 6th and he was right. ask the 140 capitol police officers who fought for hours and were injured, and there no doubt that steve bannon knows far more than he says on that video. the american people deserve to know what happened. they deserve to hear him answer these questions. mr. bannon has written to us suggesting hes relying on the fact that president trump wishes to assert executive privilege for his communications with bannon regarding the planni...

Questions you can answer or not. so i got stuck in the middle of one of these privilege issues. these are higher ranking staffers than i was. as mr. gergen knows, there is a tradition of them not having to comply with these types of subpoenas. it doesnt always work. in the case of harriet miers case, the court ruled against her. but there is the office of legal opinion from the doj -- >> if only john dean were here. we could talk about. >> but putting that aside, would you like to hear from them...

People suddenly telling the same story? different pieces of the story. and they all match. >> thats true. but i think its always important to remember that impeachment is a political process much more than a legal process. in trying to sort out evidence into different categories, i mean, its interesting, but i think ultimately what matters is what persuades politicians and the voters who elect them. you know, it is, of course, outrageous that republicans are complaining about the absence of hear...

Again as another matter of privilege, can they be called? it seems those two individuals should be before this committee. >> youp its difficult to contemplate theres not a connection just because of the time line. i did hear the dni testify today that coates and gordon, neither one was familiar with the facts of this whistle-blower complaint. but i think theres a lot more there that we need to understand. certainly they can be subpoenaed, they should be subpoenaed. one suspects the white house w...

House counsels and their staff look at these privilege issues. and the real problem here is that these privilege issues do float up to the white house on some level.le and in other white houses, me decisions have been made to protect the white house as an institution, the presidency as an institution. here we apparently have a group of people who decided to protect this president personally, and because theres no other decision making route, no judge that you can go to, no sort of,o you know, su...

I do not think hes much of a credibility threat to alex acosta. i think he did a marvelous job today. he sat there over an hour, he basically answered every question except the ones he couldnt because of privilege issues. i thought he acquitted himself well if you didnt dodge anything. that test will be due the documents, there are a lot of documents in this case. a lot of them are going to be unsealed the next few days. >> laura: they seem to want that to happen. he seemed to say that the whole...

I do not think hes much of a credibility threat to alex acosta. i think he did a marvelous job today. he sat there over an hour, he basically answered every question except the ones he couldnt because of privilege issues. i thought he acquitted himself well if you didnt dodge anything. that test will be due the documents, there are a lot of documents in this case. a lot of them are going to be unsealed the next few days. >> laura: they seem to want that to happen. he seemed to say that the whole...

Still hard to know exactly how ultimately significant it will be. we know that what is in the mueller report, we know what the mueller investigation found about what flynn had to say and what he didnt have to say. flynn of course still has to be sentenced, and so i guess its still like -- its still unclear whether theres going to be a really significant outcome for anything that kind of comes out in court after the mueller testimony -- im sorry, after the mueller report. >> very interesting. lis...

The testimony. you know, what is now coming out in the wake of the mueller investigation, though, that was not in the mueller report, its still hard to know exactly how ultimately significant it would be. we know that what is in the mueller report, we know what the mueller investigation found about what flynn had to say and what he didnt have to say. flynn of course still has to be sentenced. and so i guess its still like -- its still unclear whether theres going to be a really significant outco...