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The better there. >> thats whats so strange about it, a congressional subpoena requires the person to show up and they can have their lawyers with them, they can, when you ask a question, assert any privilege they want to assert, fifth amendment, executive privilege, whatever they want to assert, and then you interest rumble of sorts of whether you are the committee can get around that privilege or not. most of the time you cannot get around those asserted privileges, but to simply refused to sh...

Around those asserted privileges, but to simply refused to show up at all seems to be extremely clear criminal violation of that subpoena process. why would it take a justice department 56 days to figure out when you get a congressional subpoena you have to show up is in the street all of us. >> i feel the same. the law is clear on this, lawrence. and its disappointing that the department has not yet acted. you know, the committee is engaged in this effort to buck up the rule of law and if the d...

0 control but -- also federal standards, and to make sure that the system is not being abused. -- and now we are here, senator tim kaine of virginia. thank you so much for your time tonight. >> chris, its going to be an important im excited about it. >> we will keep our eyes on it. that is "all in" on this tuesday night. rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. thank you very much. thanks to you at home for joining us. floridas republican governor, ron desantis, submitted a n...

Republicans who refused to condemn qanon last year. this guy isnt just a normal right-winger in the house caucus. hes a -- hes as nutty as they they get. of course, he has been -- hes an interesting character because hes just -- we dont -- hes not a jim jordan-type yet. hes not a devon nunes-type yet. but hes about to become very familiar. one thing we should know about him, back in private business, 15, 20 years ago, he was accused of felonously conspiring to falsify his corporate records. so t...

Creating as much chaos in the congressional subpoena process and in the federal courts and demonstrating the federal courts inability to actually enforce these subpoenas because of their own judicial self-imposed delays, imposed by judges, that this is the trump method to create this chaos in washington, to say to people, nothing works, you cant make anything work, give up, its not worth trying to pursue the honest answers to really important questions. >> youre absolutely right, and youre absol...

Joining us now from princeton university, and secretary of state of public affairs in the obama administration. both are msnbc contributors. and professor eddie s. glaude jr., i want to talk to people about this who are not lawyers, because this is not about the law now. this document filed today has nothing to do with american jurisprudence in american law. this has to do, i believe, with creating as much chaos in the congressional subpoena process. and in the federal courts and demonstrating t...

Attorney general is independent in the decisions that he makes. and i think that part of the reason that they did the contempt vote on the bannon subpoena specifically was the feeling that this was the more clear-cut sand clearly authorizd subpoena process. heres someone whos trying to take refugee in an executive privilege, despite not being anywhere near the administration for nearly a year at the time this occurred, so here is the conclusion this is the most clear-cut broapproach that we t, b...

That doesnt mean its enforceable. whats going to happen today, whats happening now, is that biden has said im going to release these documents. and then under the law he has 30 days, trump has 30 days to complain. and if he doesnt do anything, the documents will be released. whats likely to happen is, on that day 29 and a half, hes going to file a lawsuit and come up the process. because, trumps whole game, it doesnt matter if its legally correct. it only matters to him that he can slow the proc...

Slow walk the process. after all, thats really worked for him. and it worked for him in impeachment, by stalling and not getting witnesses. its worked for him with his taxes. and thats what bannon is counting on, that it will work for him, with the subpoena process. no, hes not going to win the argument. but yes, hes going to try to make it to slow the process down. >> eugene, was it regarded as pro forma or a big deal that biden decided the way he did on this tranche of documents? >> i think it...

Hes scared of donald trump and the power he has and the political power he still retains. let me remind the viewers, brian, when the commission was initially proposed, the viis said we said we dont about a partisan committee. the democrats said you can have all the things you ask for, and the republicans said, no thank you. now they are getting a committee that will have subpoena power over which they have no say, and so they will regret it, and they will have liz cheney on there, and putting th...