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Especially in circumstances where it may appear that a claim of generalized immunity is invoked on personal than official grounds and work to place the president above the law. what does all that mean? in other words judge is saying president trump is not above the law and the constitutional mandates of checks and balances and separation of powers, those trump absolute immunity. president trump attorney jay sekulow was on chris cuomo today. he's what he said about the tax returns. >> the bigger issue for people at home -- why not just turn over the taxes? >> we're not required to when the peop...

Underscores toxicity between democrats and republicans. one familiar with the discussion said this is first time the panel had to take such extraordinary measures to protect a witness, including from g.o.p. colleagues and talked about possibility of having the testimony off site. bill: this is insane. go back to process, your previous conversation was whether the house need to vote. the constitution doesn't require that. the question is, whether mrs. pelosi can change the rules arbitrarily the way they did. a court could say, you can change rules, but there are procedures for that, the reason ...

Quotes like it's not a thing. then they say, actually it's the committee's actions that raise serious questions, which is an old trick we've heard, david, investigate the investigators. you're saying you see a crisis afoot because of the way they're handling this. >> of course, because the constitution doesn't give the executive branch the right to make the decision on impeachment. the constitution gives that solely to the congress. and history gives the right of congress to pursue this thing. and what the executive branch is doing is essentially throwing up everything they can but it's all li...

Violating foreign influence; invited the russians, invited the chinese, the ukraines. the president does this. this is unacceptable. now, to answer your question should there be a vote, i think the members have gone on record, more than 218 indicating that they support the inquiry. i have no reason to believe that they wouldn't vote as they are on record indicating that they would do so. so it would not offend me if we had the vote, but the constitution doesn't require it, and the fact that in two occasions, in '68 with the former president clinton and also with nixon we did it, but in 1868 we...

Inquiry. writing speaker pelosi has confirmed an impeachment inquiry is under way. this to me is harebrained. the president of the united states telling the congress there's rules in the house. the rules in the house are up to the house, and the house speaker is saying we're going to go ahead and act. >> well, they're our rules, not his rules and he wouldn't know rules if they hit him over the head with a brick, and we're complying with our rules. the constitution doesn't require any prior vote by the house of representatives before the committees investigate and neither do the house rules, so...