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Report to congress. By the way, an ig appointed by this president , who looked at this evidence and established in his view this was credible and urgent. Belying the point that somehow this was a rogue operator. If you dont mind, if i can follow up, we know from the New York Times reporting last night that the department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, his memo, in part, concluded that this document, after reading this document, its a partisan person. Its somebody who doesnt like the preside...

Also david drug drucker. good to see both of you. ali, when are we expecting this house vote and what are the next steps? >> reporter: this is going to come later this afternoon. im standing in a hallway now where democrats are huddling ahead of the time they start to get on the floor to consider this contempt referral. were also hearing from meadows attorney where he takes issue with the idea that people are saying that meadows stopped cooperating. his lawyer says his client has, quote, maintai...

>> cnn white house correspondent jeremy diamond joining us now. jeremy, this is after the former president had filed a lawsuit to stop the national archives from turning over documents. what is the latest here? >> reporter: yeah, thats right. former president trump filed that lawsuit after the biden administration rejected his claims of executive privilege in one instance previously already. now, this is the second instance that the white house and president biden have formally decided to wave e...

It appeared that it also had matters of executive privilege. i am not authorized as the director of national intelligence to wave executive privilege. >> at any time over the last month that you held this complaint, did the white house assert executive privilege? >> mr. chairman, i have endeavored -- >> i think thats a yes or no question. did they assert executive privilege? >> they were working through the executive privilege proceedings in deciding whether or not to exert executive privilege. ...

Official duty. so even though hes no longer at the white house, thats what congressman really want to get to. so according to the justice department, he has absolute immunity from having to discuss anything like that. they draw on past precedent from the obama administration under the bush administration. the justice department has a long line of opinions that look just like this. and so they say for those reasons, mcgahn does not have to testify. now, we should point out, the congressmen, espec...

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