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How does this work as he sues, as he goes to court, and what happens? >> i think there is a very strong likelihood that the committee prevails on this argument. this idea of immunity, executive immunity has been addressed by just one court. it's been rejected by that court. i don't see any reason to think it will come out differently. but they had to go through that exercise yesterday to build the record, show the judge was -- what's happening. the courts are reluctant to get involved but here where he can show we really are at an impasse, we really do need a court to direct members of the whi...

In russia prior to the election at length and in detail even though trump denied it. it gets to this question of what kind of leverage potentially did russia have over a president, or a candidate campaigning to be president at the same time he was trying to make money in russia. >> we have to turn and ask about hope hicks. i'm not entirely sure why democrats were surprised but hope hicks refused to answer more than 150 questions from lawmakers, citing executive immunity. many of the questions were very basic. she said no way, jose. what options do democrats have now and is executive immunity e...

Before the administration and afterwards. she did finally answer questions about that conversation but only in general terms saying they reminisced about campaign rallies. so it seems that it is incumbent upon the democrats in congress if they want to get answers, substantive answers to these questions, to push it, to go to court, to get a ruling that these questions need to be answered. >> do you buy, tim, that jerry nadler house judiciary chair is making the argument, hope hicks' unwillingness to participate is all part of the democrats' plan and could lay out a legal road map to basically d...

Money payments made to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal through michael cohen, the president's former personal lawyer who's now serving prison time for his unrelated offenses, unrelated to hope hicks. so what we're learning is that she is cooperating where the law is allowing her to. democrats say they will take it to court to compel her to answer all of the questions. but at this point, she's adhering to the president's directive that she not answer questions about her time in government service. and that is frustrating many democrats. republicans say this is all a show. one top republican o...

To shut all of this down. story i was just discussing. that's something we haven't seen his trump tower condo, these new this before. the only judge to have ruled on pictures we'll explain next. r co pictures, we'll explain next. nw pictures we'll explain next. executive immunity and executive pictures, we'll explain next privilege was judge bates from the d.c. district who was cog this in the context of harriet meyers and white house testimony with regard to the firing of assistant -- firing of u.s. attorneys so you couldn't have this and have a system of separated powers. it is absolutely an...