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Significance? >> waiting for judges to rule, basically. lawyers for cooperman, by the way, say that he doesn't care how the case is resolved. they say he's not fighting the subpoena, he just wants to know who's going to prevail in this tug of war. he says the congress says he has to appear before a subpoena. the white house says no, he can't, and he's saying to the judge, you decide. but he took his lawyer and told the judge yesterday that he's agnostic about how it comes out. mcgahn is definitely resisting the subpoena. and the argument here is that executive privilege shields the president's...

Information is at the congress's fingertips. don't be fooled. majority wants to fight. they want the drama. he doesn't actually want the information he claims to be seeking after the administration made things -- it har anxious the administration to being unable to comply with the subpoenas. democrats cut off negotiations and reject olive branches by the administration. the chairman's quote in his opening statements our subpoenas are not optional. we found out a lot about subpoenas over the last month or so in this committee. i found out they are maybe not optional. they're also a discussion s...

He says i felt the rules were being changed to hurt trump and i thought it was damaging for the presidency over the long haul. do you share that assessment? >> i do and great respect. look, what you've got here is this epic struggle between congress and the executive branch. look, for those of you that have seen hamilton the musical, that's what is playing out here. you have the jeffersonians on one side. is hamiltonian's on the other. you have one believing in a vibrant executive branch and the others who think congress is really, that they have the upper hand and the people's house should ha...

We're committed to the health, safety and humane treatment of those in our custody. we see that happening, tom and say so ourselves we don't want to see this happen again. where are we in getting and reaching a solution? >> if i could let me pull the curtain back on that one issue real quick. when the dhs appropriations funding bill they shut down the government and put a committee to try to come up with a budget. the democrats added language in that bill saying ice could not take action against parents and sponsors or anybody in the household. any parent sponsor could harbor a criminal organi...

Know it would have been treason. they would have called it treason. >> the president hosted that rally in pennsylvania because there is a special election there today to replace republican congressman tom moreno who resigned in january. >> sandra: thanks. >> jon: in the meantime the white house is digging in for battle with house democrats this morning. former white house counsel don mcgahn plans to defy a subpoena for his testimony before the house judiciary committee less than an hour from now. now chairman jerry nadler is threatening to take legal action. rich edson is live at the white hou...