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Principle that theyre sort of wanting clarified here, whether the notion of absolute immunity shields any of them from having to comply with congressional subpoenas, you know, i think that you could have a very different outcome there. >> can i ask what your take is on that? whether absolute immunity applies to a government worker? >> yes. so i think that theres a pretty good argument to be made that the close or immediate advisors to the president enjoy some sort of immunity that is rooted in s...

Psy. robert, always good to see you. what are the -- i guess walk through the likelihood that were going to hear from either kupperman or bolton or mulvaney given -- given this hearing. >> boy, its hard to know what to expect. i do think its interesting. i mean, pete did a very nice job of laying out why the bolton/kupperman camp thinks that the interests of their side do not line up with mulvaneys legal interests. but i think that theres also something else at stake, which is that each camp is ...

The attorney general. if he just does nothing, what does congress do? they find him in contempt. they refer the matter to a u.s. attorney and guess what? nothing happens. so he could simply resist the subpoena. he has a couple of choices here. >> what happens if the administration turns over and has a democratic administration? is he potentially trying to guard against any future retaliation -- not retaliation -- but future legal peril? >> maybe. and another possibility is he just wants to run o...