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The judge wrote "this court is not prepared to roll back history. the judge said the subpoena must be obeyed and donald trump's lawsuit does raise, quote, serious legal questions. today the president filed an appeal of that case in the district of columbia circuit court of appeals where the chief judge is merrick garland who was president obama's last nominee to the united states supreme court. a nomination that senate republicans blocked for a year and held the seat open so that president trump could appoint neil gorsuch to the supreme court. we do not yet know whether macrogar merrick garlan...

From testifying is going to fail. it's only a matter of time, and the president clearly has a plan running out the clock. but i think that courts are going to speed up these matters. the court has held in previous occasions that it's especially important to move quickly when a whole branch of the united states government is being stonewalled, when subpoenas are being defied, and all of the precedents point to a clear conclusion, the jig is up. >> professor, i'm surprised to hear you say you expect a unanimous decision by the supreme court on this. i think people out there who have seen donald ...

Records. to discuss this, joining us now is laurence tribe, harvard law professor of constitutional law. he is the co-author of "to end a presidency: the power of impeachment." professor tribe, thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. i want to get your reading of this very important case yesterday that seems to possibly be the precedent-setting case, actually, picking up and carrying the precedent that has been with us for many years in into now the enforcement of subpoenas against president trump. >> well, that decision by judge mada, very carefully written 41-page o...

Because there's an understanding or belief that that will make the arguments to get the materials quicker. what's really frustrating everyone, every single democrat, is that democrats won in november to be a check and balance on donald trump. we had a mueller report that actually found obstruction of justice. it lays out a pretty compelling case for obstruction of justice and what is donald trump's response? to obstruct the investigation so that there will be no further airing of his obstruction of justice. i think that is incredibly frustrating to moderates, liberals, and very liberal members...

Congress has the power to investigate not only in connection with impeachment, but as judge mada said, even when it is not contemplating impeachment. here, it plainly is going to be. even we it's not contemplating impeachment, it has a function of finding out what happened, what the truth is, so that it can legislate, make sure that the executive branch, which is supposed to enforce and not defy the laws of the united states, is doing so honestly and not corruptly. it's all very clear and very simple. the only precedent that the government was able to rely on is an 1880 decision that the supre...