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From a legislative body. his power, if he were to become speaker, would be legislative. so he's saying if you comply, if you telecommunications companies comply with legal process, we will write a law and we will pass a law that we would not pass. we wouldn't do this at all, we wouldn't even think about it as long as you didn't comply with legal process. but if you do, we will write a law that will have to be about something like taxation or some regulation of telecommunications in a way that is -- that they haven't even contemplated. he doesn't even know what it is. he couldn't even announce ...

>> well, that's exactly right. and here he is following again the form of his boss from mar-a-lago. trump when he was in office also threatened the telecoms because he didn't like when there was sort of adverse feedback on social media about him. so he threatened, for example, to repeal the immunity from liability that the telecoms enjoy. now, there may be good reasons to do that, but punishing them because he doesn't like their content isn't one of them. and here it's almost more egregious from mccarthy because you have congress, the very branch in which he is serving on a bipartisan basis te...

Follows a court rebuke to the white house's claim that it has brought immunity that protects presidential advisers from ever being forced to give testimony to congress. the opinion, now under appeal, was scathing. the judge writing, quote, presidents are not kings and absolute community from compelled congressional process simply does not exist. with me this day to show their regulator, rachel bail, michael sherwood. we are in the middle of a serious impeachment inquiry. what are we to make of a presidential tweet that says, sure, and then the secretary of state has serious questions about his...

Also, jennifer rodgers who had don mcgahn's job. i want to read a little bit of this ruling. put it on the screen. joe jackson writes, with respect to senior level presidential aides, absolute immunity from compelled congressional process simply does not exist. as the kids would say, absolute immunity is not a thing. how stark of a ruling is this? >> it is really such an extraordinary claim by the white house. that not only doesn't don mcgahn or any white house official have to protect individual conversations with the president, the white house argued they don't even have to show up. they are...

So this will be appealed. maybe it will give cover, but i think it's really more of a political than a legal question. legally these subpoenas should be complied with. >> let's here from the ruling. she says with respect to senior-level presidential aides, absolute immunity from compelled congressional process simply does not exist. indeed, absolute testimonile immunity for senior level white house aides appears to be a fiction, in other words, kind of a spin on the fake news, fake law at this point. >> and the only authority for this was in internal memos by the office of legal counsel, which...