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If your aide testifies in front of one branch of government, it does not waive executive privilege when he goes in front of the congress. that has not been tested. it's what the president is asserting here is broad immunity for everybody. that goes way beyond anything the courts have looked at, and i think it's an expression or an assertion of a hugely expanded executive authority. >> so david, let me ask you just on that. to jim's really important point, which is this is broad. this is just across the board. we're just not going to cooperate with anything. documents, testimony, none of it. he...

That is provable and, secondly, would be of the degree that you would kick someone out of the white house. you say? >> well, a couple of points. apparently, it was prove if bl to some extent because mr. steve king, my colleague in congress, has been removed from his committee assignments, and he's been condemned for some of his activities and some of the things that he's said. also if these persons that you talk to are correct -- and there are others who would differ, i assure you -- neil: absolutely. >> but if these persons were correct, then andrew johnson would not have been impeached for s...

Defrauding of the charity, the tax fraud, the bank fraud, no one is above the law. legally, what can happen next? >> i think there are two different -- i should say three different avenues. one is the one most people are talking about which is can there be a federal indictment, federal charges? there are two office of legal counsel doj opinions that say a sitting president can't be indicted. i don't think they apply to a circumstance like this which is when someone cheats or allegedly cheats in order to win the election in the first place. you wouldn't want to incentivize someone to cheat so m...

Crimes that have been alleged. we need to look at all of the evidence that's been presented. some of it presented during the course of the special counsel's investigation. some revealed yesterday. we intend to do a robust review of all of the information and conduct oversight. we'll set out in the coming weeks our strategy and what areas we'll focus on. there is a lot of oversight that's been building up for two years that we haven't been able to do. we pleaded with our republican chairman to begin oversight hearings. we are going to do our oversight responsibilities even if our republican col...

Fought a revolution to escape the tyranny of kings, and now they wanted to keep the president from becoming a monarch. in one version, the grounds for impeachment were treason and bribery. also proposed, maladministration, but james madison said that was too vague. what if, he asked, a president were to cook up a scheme of peculation? in other words, what if the president were a crook? so george mason of virginia came up with the additional phrase, high crimes and misdemeanors, and that is article ii, section 4 of the constitution. there was a moment in our history when it saved american democ...