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Congressional subpoenas and cant be forced to testify before congress. Lets bring in attorney david rifkin, he served during the reagan and georg george h. W. Buh administrations. Welcome. Thank you for coming today. David, how strong is this president s case for saying that his aides dont have to testify because of this immunity . Very strong. It is a wellestablished immunity, paul, dates back to 1971, an opinion written by william republica renquist, been reaffirmed in nine administrations and both parties, fully case law. Ittheres a group of people tht see the president every day, he communicates with them, the 1971 opinion says the president is a coequal branch, he cannot command that members of congress appear before him. They cannot command he appears before them. I want to emphasize one more point. The reason the president has a strong position, theres another form of absolute immunity based upon 1989 opinion, he went on to be a chief judge in the fourth circuit. That stands for ....
Congressional subpoenas and cant be forced to testify before congress. Lets bring in attorney david rifkin, he served during the reagan and georg george h. W. Buh administrations. Welcome. Thank you for coming today. David, how strong is this president s case for saying that his aides dont have to testify because of this immunity . Very strong. It is a wellestablished immunity, paul, dates back to 1971, an opinion written by william republica renquist, been reaffirmed in nine administrations and both parties, fully case law. Ittheres a group of people tht see the president every day, he communicates with them, the 1971 opinion says the president is a coequal branch, he cannot command that members of congress appear before him. They cannot command he appears before them. I want to emphasize one more point. The reason the president has a strong position, theres another form of absolute immunity based upon 1989 opinion, he went on to be a chief judge in the fourth circuit. That stands for ....
Not lost in all of the partying. And paradegoers emboldened by the crowd of likeminded supporters. This is me coming out to my parents, if they see this. And just being whats good and right in our nation is what we need right now. And this is part of that. This is a huge part of that. Reporter there was a strong Law Enforcement presence within the parade and also around the perimeter and around all of the celebrations today and yesterday. Concerns that there could be some sort of terror attack or maybe hate crimes against people. That did not happen. We talked to police. They said no incidents really to report on. In San Francisco, thom jensen, nbc bay area news. And it wasnt just San Francisco celebrating pride. Parades took over streets across the nation. Look at new york city. Millions were expected to turn out for a p ....
Chester township soon enough to save him. Drew smith is live on the seen on buckner road. Drew . Reporter there is a deep sense of sadness in this neighborhood. You can see this home is scorched and boarded up now. Were told the boy was asleep in the second story and we believe he died from smoke inhalation. Firefighters worked most of the morning to put out the fire in this house. Neighbors woken up shortly before 6 00 a. M. Were shocked to find out a little boy was trapped inside. The father walked up to the scene. He spoke to one of the firefighters and asked if anything was okay, and with tears in his eyes, he said no. Reporter were told the boys father arrived home to see the flames and ended up getting cut up as he tried to reach the second story. You can see how high the fire reached where they had to board up parts of the roof. A lot of damage, a lot of damage. Reporter william herr said the boys stepmother didnt say a word when she came over for a hug, but her body language sa ....