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The part of executive offices, tellingly the department s opinion ignores that policy entirely. now chairman nadler s letter goes on to say this about don mcgahn s position now in relation to the president. the president himself has already called your credibility into question. he tweeted less than ten days ago that he was not going to fire bob mueller. denying a sprawl event that you described to special counsel mueller under penalty of felony. in other words, under penalty of perjury. he goes on to say in asking you to make public comments about these events, the president has not only further waived any possible privilege with regard to your testimony, he has also created substantial concerns about acts of witness intimidation and further obstruction of congress s ongoing investigations. and back with us are congressman jim himes and jill wine-banks. congressman, i know you re not a ....
Individual is held liable for all the consequences that come from defying a subpoena, just putting exclamation points on your orders doesn t necessarily make it any more likely that person is going to decide it s in their interest to get themselves in legal trouble specifically because the president wants them to. don mcgahn has his own interests at this point. the president has dried to drag him through the mud behind him at this point and mcgahn s got to do what he s got to do for himself in addition to listening to what the white house is yelling at him. it is astonishing the justice department would produce this memo today and completely ignore that and several other points raised by jerry nadler, but that particular point which is the justice department s own policy that is executive privilege should not be invoked in any matters involving possible how do they put it, wrongdoing or criminality on the part of executive officers. right, and you know, where was that fortunatelied ....
Breaking news in this segment tonight. the most recent breaking news the letter from the chairman jerry nadler about don mcgahn s testimony tomorrow to the judiciary committee, but first, the breaking news today of the release of transcripts of michael cohen s closed door testimony to the house intelligence committee and in that testimony mike the cohen says that is one of president trump s private criminal defense lawyers jay sekulow told michael cohen to not tell the truth about trump negotiations to build a trump tower in moscow. it was all about the iowa caucus. according to michael cohen jay sekulow told him to testify falsely to congress by saying the last discussions of a trump tower in moscow were in january of 2016 before the iowa caucus. michael cohen told the house intelligence committee that jay sekulow knew that was not true. michael cohen now admits the discussions about the possible trump tower in moscow continued into the summer of 2016 after the republican primaries we ....
Ago that he was not going to fire bob mueller. denying a sprawl event that you described to special counsel mueller under penalty of felony. in other words, under penalty of perjury. he goes on to say in asking you to make public comments about these events, the president has not only further waived any possible privilege with regard to your testimony, he has also created substantial concerns about acts of witness intimidation and further obstruction of congress s ongoing investigations. and back with us are congressman jim himes and jill wine-banks. congressman, i know you re not a member of nadler s judiciary committee. but this situation with don mcgahn aches all the committees, the investigation committee you re on where you released the michael cohen testimony today. i want to first get your reaction to chairman nadler s letter and then we ll talk a little bit about michael cohen s testimony. right. ....
Congress to really do it. yes. as we go to a quick break here, i just want to thank glen kirschner for joining us. invaluable to have you after having been in the courtroom. congressman himes, jill wine-banks, stay with us. we have to talk about the breaking news at this hour. this is nadler s letter about don mcgahn s testimony. this is new at this hour. jerry nadler s letter to don mcgahn saying even if the president is telling you you don t have to testify to our committee tomorrow, you most certainly do. chairman nadler is citing law that the justice department ignored today in their memo about exepting don mcgahn declaring that don mcgahn had an absolute immunity from the congressional subpoenas. that s next. immunity from the congressional subpoenas. that s next. allergies with sinus congestion and pressure? ....