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You were mentioning a second ago that this may be an executive privilege case, and is that merited here? >> so first of all this whole idea of it's not an impeachment inquiry until the house votes on it, is creative. what they're trying to do is force the democrats' hand, force them to vote yes or no to put the people who are in swing districts in danger. i still don't think the president and the white house are going to say, now you get everything. they're going to go with the we're fighting all the subpoenas approach. but an interesting wrinkle, in the nixon case, what the supreme court said...

Congressman steve king, it is time for him to go. today, federal judge ruling against house democrats and their quest number one former white house done began to testify and two access to grand jury materials from the mueller report. politico calling it a blow to house democrats as they inched towards the prospect of impeachment proceedings. let's talk about it fox news contributor lindsay marshall and assistant deputy attorney general, welcome to you both. >> high matt, shannon. >> shannon: the judge that they can't join these two cases together hinting the democrats trying to do a little bit...

>> gop caucus chair says steve king, quote, is it time for him to go? today federal judge ruling against house democrats in a twin quest to force white house counsel don began to testify and for access to grand jury materials from the mueller report? political calling it a, quote, below to house democrats as they installed the process of impeachment proceedings. let's talk about it with leslie marshall and former deputy assistant attorney general john you. what happened today? the judge said he joined these two cases together hinting that democrats were trying to do some judge shopping but let...

And this is just going to become the next front in what's becoming more and more of a legal battle between the house and the trump administration. you know, they've gotten some favorable views from the courts in terms of the house, and i don't know where exactly the court is going to come down. mcgahn is a private citizen, so there could be that argument made, but, obviously, there is the executive privilege case that could be made. >> we'll talk to you again in a little bit. thank you. let's switch gears here. another migrant child has died while in the custody of u.s. customs and protectio...

Counterparts. we've been consulting with the lawyers, also. what is the best case, what arguments might the white house make? it looks to me on the surface that they don't have much of an executive privilege case to make. that privilege really normally applies when the president is seeking advice from his counselors and there's a policy interest in making sure that he has the free and unfettered opinion of those. that's not the case when he's speaking to a foreign leader and is speaking to that foreign leader in private. i don't think the prif ledge applies but we want to be on the strongest p...