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Heres my phone number. call me if we ever are not cooperating fully. the white house cooperated at every stage in 1998 and all this white house is doing is obstructing. i think thats ultimately undermining their case. it would be nice to have mcgahn, bolton, mulvaney, but i think the case now is just so overwhelming, the totality of the evidence is just so uncontestable that im not sure waiting three or four months really is worth it. >> you say this is unprecedented, that this case of executive...

Consumption? >> oh, sure. i think sometimes they use soaring rhetoric, you know, imagining that it will be etched into the stone above a doorway someday, but i also think that there is a lot of substance in this opinion. it does go on for 120 pages but today is the great day for the rule of law and that is what is the ultimate conclusion that she writes here that presidents are not kings, that we have this tripart form of government and its very important that we maintain the checks and balances...

Executive wants to run the clock. in all previous administrations theyve abided by norms. theyve never really argued this absolute immunity the way they argued in the mcgahn case yesterday. i think this administration, one of the problems is that it keeps pushing the limits, testing the outer limits of what should go down as acceptable in a democratic system. and if they want to run the clock, if they want to push those limits, they can run the clock. i think the democrats really dont need the t...

Someone who might try to be too powerful, might be involved in self-dealing, corruption or inviting foreign countries into interfering with our elections. so we havent come across this in a generation, thankfully. you dont want to be doing this every year. its a very serious, very solemn occasion and its important that we educate ourselves, those of us who need to be crafting, drafting, amending, voting on possible articles of impeachment. but the american public has a right to know. i think of ...

Opinions knowing theres going to be sufficient public interest that it might get read on tv, it might get read in classrooms, that it might become essentially a document thats for public consumption? >> oh, sure. i think sometimes they use soaring rhetoric, you know, imagining that it will be etched into the stone above a doorway someday, but i also think that there is a lot of substance in this opinion. it does go on for 120 pages but today is the great day for the rule of law and that is what ...

Were released from these other folks who were called but did not appear, this is putting it on the record all of the officials who were called but chose not to comply with subpoen subpoenas. mcgahns not relevant to the impeachment inquiry, but all of these other officials are and that same court hearing democrats hope perhaps might shake loose the testimony of some of those who thus far refused to show up. >> from what i can from what has just been released because democrats release what had the...

Witnesses, although a democratic aide tells nbc news the witnesses will be academics, not fact witnesses. in just a moment were going to speak with a member of the house judiciary committee about this breaking news. it comes after a federal judge rebuked the president and ordered his former white house counsel to testify in the houses impeachment inquiry, a rule cing which the justice department is appealing. democrats on the judiciary committee who brought this suit now confront a dilemma. they...

President that he learned he had given when the president tweeted about it. you know, i -- like whether the president fired mcgahn or whether mcgahn was planning to leave and the president just kind of, you know, gave him a shove on twitter, its really hard to know. i will say this. when the president tweets that mcgahn had nothing to do with his -- you know, did not stop him from firing sessions or mueller, there is one person who knows whether thats true or not or whether its, as the president...