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>> also tonight, phil, the house judiciary committee has voted to authorize a wave of new subpoenas involving current and former members of the trump administration. tell us about that. >> reporter: that's exactly right. the investigation by the judiciary committee, obviously, it's been ongoing for months. and keep in mind, in the early stages of this congress, jerry nadler, the chairman of the committee send ought requests for information related to a potential obstruction of justice investigation into president trump to 81 individuals. now 12 more of the individuals that were on that list th...

That 6:00 p.m. deadline now ticking away that whitaker has imposed for the house judiciary committee, the chairman jerry nadler to let him know whether or not he's willing to withdraw that subpoena that was sort of preemptively issued earlier today for his testimony as we know nadler wanted to have that subpoena in his back pocket in case whitaker tried to avoid questions on executive privilege grounds. whitaker now saying that's not fair. this is a breach of the agreement. i was willing to come voluntarily, but i will not discuss my confidential communications with the president, which is som...

When he was subpoenaed to appear in front of a federal grand jury by ken starr's group, and turned out to be a disaster because he was lying. what is your take on this? a president cannot be indicted while in office. if a president has the power to exercise his rights to fire an individual, and let's say he's presented with a subpoena, what does he do? >> well, he fights it, he can fight it on a number of ground, including executive privilege grounds, the basic point that gregg's made and you made is that the theory is right, the attorney general or a special prosecutor, in theory operating un...

When he was subpoenaed to appear in front of a federal grand jury by ken starr's group, and turned out to be a disaster because he was lying. what is your take on this? a president cannot be indicted while in office. if a president has the power to exercise his rights to fire an individual, and let's say he's presented with a subpoena, what does he do? >> well, he fights it, he can fight it on a number of ground, including executive privilege grounds, the basic point that gregg's made and you made is that the theory is right, the attorney general or a special prosecutor, in theory operating un...

When he was subpoenaed to appear in front of a federal grand jury by ken starr's group, and turned out to be a disaster because he was lying. what is your take on this? a president cannot be indicted while in office. if a president has the power to exercise his rights to fire an individual, and let's say he's presented with a subpoena, what does he do? >> well, he fights it, he can fight it on a number of ground, including executive privilege grounds, the basic point that gregg's made and you made is that the theory is right, the attorney general or a special prosecutor, in theory operating un...