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Questions because her lawyers objected and so she didn't answer any questions about whether that was truthful testimony or anything like that. she did read it out. >> that is interesting. one of the things chairman nadler said today is that he will destroy the immunity argument in court. i guess my question is when? when? >> well, i think you're going to see a number of things happening very quickly and i do think that the immunity argument is ludicrous. i think it will get destroyed. we just hope that it is destroyed extremely quickly. so when we go to court and i do believe that will be very...

Investigation and never should have happened. he asked corey lto write down what he dictated and corey sometime later gave those notes over to hope hicks to type up and then to turnover to another individual and so we had her read some of those passages and i think that's very important because again, she is claiming that she can't answer questions that she already answered to robert mueller and i think that is significant. >> well, that of course, happened -- well, that happened when she was in the white house. you had her read that out loud in the white house and she agreed to it? >> she did...

Of law question. do we still have a rule of law in this country? does the white house have to follow it? if congress can't issue a subpoena and expect to have it enforced whether in the courts or because individuals do their duty then we really don't have much of a constitutional republic left. i would expect to see the courts enforce the subpoenas. i would expect to see them enforce them swiftly. there's not much of a question about whether congress is entitled to hear testimony. the white house made a pass at this immunity argument but there's no law, no cases that support that. some authori...

>> last part of that question, first, brian. this is this foundational rule of law question. do we still have a rule of law in this country? does the white house have to follow it? if congress can't issue a subpoena and expect to have it enforced whether in the courts or because individuals do their duty then we really don't have much of a constitutional republic left. i would expect to see the courts enforce the subpoenas. i would expect to see them enforce them swiftly. there's not much of a question about whether congress is entitled to hear testimony. the white house made a pass at this im...

Been tested in a court one time, in a district court, and the argument was rejected. it hasn't worked its way up through the appellate courts, et cetera. the answer to your question, unfortunately, is some of this is unanswered as of right now. as to exactly what that power is. >> yeah, but don't you think that congress has the better of the argument? there's an argument that executive privilege was waived when mcgahn spent 30 hours in front of congress. this immunity argument is new to me. i'm not sure where that exactly depose. fundamentally, as willie said, when you're subpoenaed by congres...