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To me that anything they would be legitimately be looking into couldnt be public or they could take a small portion into closed session. >> so james comeys attorney calls the subpoena process an abusive process, a divergence from house rules, and its presumption of transparency. whats the case they have to prove here? as laura said, theyre clearly willing to take this to court. >> whats most likely to happen, especially considering the timing of the turnover of the committee, is the clock is goi...

But i know the president, sandra. he probably very much so wants to testify because he wears everything on his sleeve and he doesnt think he did anything wrong. >> bill: what dershowitz said last hour it goes to the supreme court and if it does, the court will rule in favor of some questions and rule out of favor for other questions. so what would be in, anthony, and what would be out? >> well listen, what would clearly be in is whether or not they had the right to speak to the president through...

Should have confidence that brett kavanaugh is going to set aside whatever his policy views are, and to say, what does the constitution call for. and the supreme court of the united states spoke unanimously in the paula corbin jones case, brought by president clinton to the effect to the supreme court saying grant me immunity from civil litigation, and the supreme court unanimously said no, and that included two of president clintons own appointees. thats the law of the land, that no one is abov...

Impeached. so lets go to the subpoena issue. how far can they take a subpoena, if, in fact, they conclude, as the department of justice did, you cannot indict a sitting president? how does the subpoena process work? >> see, i think this goes back to davids point, mark, you know, these guys are not an independent fourth branch of government, right? mueller technically is an inferior executive officer. i dont know on what authority, if the president doesnt want to be subpoenaed, how does the infer...

Impeached. so lets go to the subpoena issue. how far can they take a subpoena, if, in fact, they conclude, as the department of justice did, you cannot indict a sitting president? how does the subpoena process work? >> see, i think this goes back to davids point, mark, you know, these guys are not an independent fourth branch of government, right? mueller technically is an inferior executive officer. i dont know on what authority, if the president doesnt want to be subpoenaed, how does the infer...

Privilege is that cohen and trump is a privileged communication almost certainly. at a minimum if they were discussing the stormy daniels issue, where both have said that michael cohen represented donald trump. so even if there are tapes between cohen and trump, there are multiple layers ofeview that wouldeed to happen befor they would be turned over to anyone because of the attorney/client privilege. >> again, we dont know much. is there anything that worries you? >> well, sure. this is avenatt...

From people like donald trump jr. who said some of his conversations were protected by attorney-client privilege. i did ask mike conaway, why are you not issuing subpoenas for some of these key documents as the democrats have demanded? he said, you can use subpoenas when you think you can actually get something from them. were not too confident that the subpoena process would actually get us more information than we already have. so republicans are content with the information they have. democra...

That weve requested through our subpoena process, through the civil investigation, pursuant to the lawsuit, i just received a piece of information last week. i received the special event permit fromrm the city. there it is, and black and white, handwritten, filled out by an mgm executive for this event that happened right behind us. it wasnt live nation entertainment. it was mgm, corporative executive, who filled out the special event permit for this particular concert. so their fingerprints are...

Involved the most serious national security issues that put our country at risk and we will utilize the authorities that we have legally and constitutionally if we have to. >> what did you make of at this point? >> well, i really ask that question because thats exactly what attorney general holder said, that you dont put reporters in jail for doing their jobs when its news gathering. and whats happened with this administration is theyre starting to review their subpoena process regarding the med...

Involved the most serious national security issues that put our country at risk and we will utilize the authorities that we have legally and constitutionally if we have to. >> what did you make of at this point? >> well, i really ask that question because thats exactly what attorney general holder said, that you dont put reporters in jail for doing their jobs when its news gathering. and whats happened with this administration is theyre starting to review their subpoena process regarding the med...