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Of a court order. well, now he has it. so it looks to me like the ball is entirely in john boltons court. >> only if an appellate court doesnt stay the issue. because this is the strangest logjam of legal power of congress to subpoena individuals, because this exact issue was decided conclusively in almost identical facts back in 2007, the court, the same court, held that the, that there is no absolute immunity, that instead, someone would have to appear and assert executive privilege on a quest...

White house the notion that it wouldnt be part of the initial planning is hard to understand. >> is it possible that the president only learned that 150 people would die with minutes to spare. the general told me last night, they got proposals about any con continue engi about places we dont even have aggressive relationships with. the idea of collateral damage, the death of people would have to be high up in that report. >> we dont know exactly what happened when they presented it to him. if he...

Strike, he asked the generals the question, and they said, we are not sure. let us get back to you. if that happened, that would be a scandal unto itself. ryan goodman suggested it would likely be illegal to approve an operation without knowing the estimated casualties it would have caused. there are multiple sources contradicting the version of events. the times reporting planes were in the air. "washington post" reporting that in fact the president was informed of the number of estimated casua...

Immunity. it is a degree even greater than executive privilege. the witness doesnt have to answer any question at all. the mere fact that they were an aid to the president means hands off. home hicks did answer questions that predate her time in the white house. anything that occurred during her time in the white house including the location of her desk. >> why would there be an objection to a question like that? i think they were making a point we are going to object to every single question. t...

Perhaps the place where they shot the surface to air missile from, perhaps the radar system that was used to lock in on the grown. something like that. the notion that it would involve that many casualties was surprising. >> there was some question about where this drone was shot. what iran claims is it was in iranian air space and america claims it was in international air space. were now hearing some reporting that it was in iranian air space. what are you hearing about that? >> so the u.s. mi...

Question whatsoever. now, the executive privilege is slightly different, which is on a question by question basis you can invoke that privilege to say, ill answer most of your questions, but when it gets into these candid deliberations between the president and the aide, we want to make sure that we include -- incentivize people to be candid in their conversations by not forcing you to close those in the future. so there is room. it is a legitimate thing to protect executive privilege. >> becaus...

Sir, approximately 150. and i thought about it for a second. i said, you know what, they shot down an unmanned drone, plane, whatever you want to call it, and here we are sitting with 150 dead people that would have taken place probably within a half an hour after i said go ahead and i didnt like it. i didnt think it was -- i didnt think it was proportionate. >> okay. obviously we dont know what happened last night in the white house when a missile strike on iran was ostensibly ordered and cance...

That it went down as the president described it to chuck todd today. the president is saying that half an hour before the planes were to take off to launch a carefully planned missile strike he asked his generals how many casualties there would be, and the generals who had planned this operation and presented it to the president and prepped it to go and were ready to launch, you know what, thats a good question. we hadnt thought about that. were not sure. let us get back to you. if that is what ...

Be part of the original military planning is pretty difficult to understand, ali. >> and following on that, is it possible that the president would only have learned that approximately 150 people would die with minutes to spare? i would imagine when theres a submission of that sort of proposal general barry mccaffrey told me last night they have proposals for any contingency, about places you dont think we have aggressive relationships with. but the idea of what we call collateral damage, the de...

>> it would be but, again, what we dont know is exactly what happened when they presented that to him. if thats something he didnt ask the question or if for some reason they didnt present it. as part of basic and very standard military planning for an operation like this, especially something so high profile, i find it impossible to believe that that wasnt part of the original planning but, again, we just dont know how the conversation was. when you look at the basic idea here, i was also struc...