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Look agoing to. No legislation. Whenever a 5593 page covid relief bill is, its not a law. None of the socalled legislators of the socalled Legislative Branch right or read their own, quote, legislation. I used to be naive enough to think these perversions of laugh were at least written by staffers. Like that nice lady who sits next to Chuck Schumer who looks her best to be dazzled by his rhetoric. My best guess now its a google algorithm. The lobbyists enter their wish list at stiff the citizenr...

Aides to ignore the subpoenas. is this obstruction of justice? >> it is. it is obstruction of congress. it actually means being able to obstruct what congress is supposed to be doing. they have a legislative initiative, what happened on january 6th. its a valid purpose. they select a committee, and the idea of telling someone dont show up at all, because i might assert executive privilege here, again, its a question by question privilege. privilege only relates to the questions that might be res...

That, there is no privilege to be corrupt. and so that needs to be provided to congress. we cant get an answer because the department of justice and the director of national intelligence will not authorize the ig to tell us. and the inspector general is doing his very best to be very careful that he follow the law. and in some respects, the inspector general is in the same position. if the inspector general steps one foot outside of what he is authorized do, then he is not protected. and so this...

Some type of allegation. we dont though sghatt exactly. but to bring to the attention of power that need to know the information. if the white house tries to obstruct that, my fear is that is sending a message to potential whistle blowers across the intelligence community. and man new oig oew asked about question privilege. and that has to be squared with the inspector general says the threat is a key issue. g weve long chronicled the clashes between the president and the intelligence community....

Privilege. and so the shorter answer is we dont know, but there is certainly a lot of indications it is someone at a higher pay grade than the director of national intelligence. >> do you suspect this was to protect the president of the united states? >> i believe that there is an effort to prevent this information getting to congress. and if the assertion is accurate that the department of justice has made and the dni has affirmed that this involves a potentially privileged communication, then ...

Said this is ush against, it cant wait. which is a profound concern that we have over what we have seen over the last year, which is a concerted strategy to run out the clock on any information getting to congress. here where it is urgent, that is simply not an option. >> why were you not able to get an answer today on whether or not the white house intervened, why are you not able to get the answer about the substance of the complaint? >> well, there is no privilege that covers whether the whit...

But the one fascinating about the presidents defense of this, he is saying do you think im really dumb enough to say something inappropriate while all these other people are listening in. the counter to that, if it is so innocent, why is the executive branch trying on obstruct it from getting to congress. so release the information and help protect the whistle blower process. >> adam schiff said that they dont specifically know if the white house was directly involved, but the white house is mak...

Intelligence not to hand this information over to you? >> all i do know is this. i dont know whether the white house is directly involved because we cant get an answer to that question, but we do know that they are making some claim that privilege may apply. well, that narrows the category who may be intervening here. we also know that there are other institutions involved that are preventing us from getting the complaint. and whether this is pressure brought by the white house, whether this is ...