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Just executive privilege, but executive immunity, saying not only might he decline to answer some specific questions designed to promote candor in providing advice to the president, but he is not even going to show up. you know, that alone is problematic, and we saw it in the nixon administration, that refusal to comply with legitimate inquiries from the congress is an impeachable offense. and so even if they don't get relief in the courts, maybe at some point members of congress will say, this refusal to comply is alone an impeachable offense. >> there are many members of congress who have ar...

Constitution. maybe you give him a pass when he doesn't understand what the rules are. he's already been on notice that this is a violation of the law and to use the platform of the g7 to tout his bungalows in the form as you say of an infomercial is absolutely a blatant violation of the constitution. >> so there was a mention today about the subpoenas. for rob porter that were issued by the house judiciary committee. this gets to the crux of one of the issues here. it's a longstanding pattern and theme. house judiciary committee is trying to do oversight. we know what's going to happen. the w...

>> the help of very government friendly policies, not taking away your work but the rich have gotten richer for 40 years and corporations of america pay nothing in taxes. >> not sure this interview will help or hurt him but he is bottoming out at 1% in most polls so the only way is to go up. >> thank you so much, appreciate it, house democrats are suing former white house counsel don mcgann to force him to testify. there laws it calling him the most important witness other than the president on russia probe. the trump administration claims executive immunity after he refused to testify in may....

Compelled to testify before congress with with respect to matters related to her service as a senior adviser to the president. the house oversight committee promised to hold her in contempt with congress if she refused to testify. with us, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan, barbara mcquade, and barb, as you listen to kellyanne, can she hide behind what that thing is she was talking about legally? >> not at all. we heard of the white house invoking this doctrine of executive immunity which doesn't exist. there is only one court that has ever addressed it. it came up when...

>> not at all. we heard of the white house invoking this doctrine of executive immunity which doesn't exist. there is only one court that has ever addressed it. it came up when harriet meyers was subpoenaed to testify during the bush administration, and the court said it doesn't exist. if an aide to the president is subpoenaed to testify, they must appear. they may invoke executive privilege, that is a legitimate doctrine, but it has to be invoked on a question-by-question basis when it gets into details between the president and his aide. the idea she doesn't have to show up whatsoever is leg...