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Oath of the constitution to protect and serve the interests of the united states and not the interests of president trump and his reelection hopes for 2020. the president for his own personal gain, talking about whether or not he should stay in office or not. >> the criminal process has been that the intel committee has too much right now. >> this whole episode reminds me of an episode of when i was at the fbi a few years ago and republicans were demanding a briefing on a sensitive topic so after a lot of back and forth we produced a senior doj official and a senior fbi official to provide a b...

Prediction is yes, and i don't normally commit and make predictions. >> on this day in time, he said yes. as of when though? >> it's always hard to say because court schedules run on the court's own time. >> could it feasibly go to the supreme court before we see a tax return. >> it very well could because the issue of presidential immunity from civil and criminal process has been largely undefined since it was sort of created back in the nixon era, and modified in the clinton b. jon -- v. jones case. the president has immunity. >> i would think the trump campaign would not want those released...

>> trump is likely to lose there, for a totally different legal reason. this relates way back to the nixon case and the clinton b. jones case. this is about separation of powers. this is about the president's immunity from a lot of different things, criminal process, civil suits, but we know there are exceptions, paula jones and the clinton case taught us that. this may be another one. the president's argument is because the president is immune from criminal process, he's immune from everything related to criminal process. >> even being investigated. >> even being investigated and the court sa...

The focus as narrow as that has been so far, focused on the ukraine, not on all the things that some democrats want to impeach the democrats for. >> the white house is trying to brand this as illegitimate, unconstitutional, and attacking the process which most lawyers will tell thought process is whatever she wants it to be. >> right. and when you're attacking the process, you're already losing. i keep coming back to this question. if the call was so perfect as the president has been saying for days on end, why not be cooperative? why not let the eu ambassador, our ambassador to the eu, testif...

Heldibili accountable, but he can't even be impeached. they're saying the president's conduct cannot be police incod y way, shape, or form. >> in fact the whistle-blower protection affords the whistle-blower safety so that the state department or other agency officials cannot be present, their lawyers are not supposed to be present when state department witnesses are testifying in this kind of procedure rather than the demand from the white house that they have the opportunity to question these witnesses. >> yeah, the white house has -- you know, the white house has in their letter pretended, ...