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Profound question is what are you resisting in what are you hiding? why don't you come forward? why don't you do it voluntarily? no speech and debate problem? no executive privilege problem, and he is choosing not to cooperate, and therefore the justice department has to litigate, and perhaps he hoping it will take too much time, and he can play the same game of rope a dope in the courts that donald trump played for years, but there is nothing that precludes him from doing this, and the public need to know outweighs any other consideration. >> as you mentioned, you tried to get him to speak to...

Predictable fashion. the role of the courts has become highly problematic because delay is very often -- the courts are now a haven for delay with respect to executive privilege determinations. i think we need to look at that as well. senator kennedy and i had a hearing on the executive privilege problem in the court subcommittee. the department of justice wasn't represented at that hearing. i would like to ask you to detail somebody from the department of justice to talk to senator kennedy and me about this executive privilege problem and work with us on trying to figure out a solution making...

0 about a conversation that i'm not -- >> i'm stunned that you can't recall that. so let's talk about afghanistan. the secretary -- undersecretary for defense policy, mr. kael says, isis-k poses a short term external threat al qaeda could launch attacks outside afghanistan within a year or two. do you agree with that? >> i agree that al qaeda has always presented and continues to present a persistent threat to the united states homeland. >> the question is what's changed? you say always. has any recent event changed the likelihood of an attack? >> i don't know. >> you don't know that we withdr...

About national security issues. there are no national security issues here. this will be adjudicated and it will go against the white house. >> in the mueller probe? >> yeah, the mueller probe and maybe even in the house and the in senate in the sense that you can't claim executive privilege if you're trying to hide a crime in the executive branch. >> i think that's why you're seeing this really, really aggressive effort to discredit mueller because i think everybody knows that the congressional inquiries are going to run up against this executive privilege problem. >> and partisan ship. >> an...