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For extrapolating that he cannot subpoena him to testify in front of the grand jury. that is not the case. certainly -- if you ask any legal scholar about that issue, that hasn't been taken to the supreme court either. the question of whether or not a sitting question can be subpoenaed for testimony. of course, we have the nixon precedent but that referred to tapes. documents and tapes. by all accounts, the supreme court said a sitting president is not above the law and seems that they would follow suit when your talking about testimony. it's true that that specific instance hasn't been tested...

Interested in subpoenaing witnesses. although they did issue a subpoena for bannon. that didn't work out. because he wasn't responsive. it's -- the bigger point that we have seen is this house intelligence investigation just seems disorganized. they are inviting witnesses. witnesses come and don't know whether or not they'll invoke executive privilege. they don't know whether the witness will appear. and it just strikes me as disorganized, they're not communicating either effectively with the white house counsel office to understand what's going to happen. and doesn't necessarily seem like the...

There's that, and glen simpson's money laundering allegation that congressman schiff is talking about. so can theseongressional committees force these witnesses to talk short of holding them in contempt of ss,hichcongre is almost unheard of? >> they can invite them to be interviewed. and they can also subpoena them if they want, although, it seems like the house intelligence committee, which is republican-led is mostly not interested in subpoenaing witnesses, although i guess they did issue a subpoena for bannon that didn't sort of work out, because he wasn't responsive. i guess the bigger poi...

E-mails. there could be a whole host of e-mails about this meeting or about the results of it or subsequent phone conversations. what are you learning about what's going to happen next? there was a lot of talk they were going to testify publicly on wednesday. that's not going to happen. >> yeah, that's not going to happen because this deal that was cut behind the scenes after a series of active negotiations. the deal entails providing more documents, those documents you were just referring to. donald trump jr., any contacts that may have occurred including that trump tower meeting that he had ...

His contacts that may have occurred, including the trump tower meeting he had to get dirt on the clintons, as well as paul manafort. those two have agreed to have a private interview with the senate judiciary committee and the staff. there's no date set for that private interview. at this point, it's unclear if they with appear publicly, but the committee did issue a subpoena for another witness expected to come on wednesday, glenn simpson co-founder of fusion gps, behind that russian dossier. saying this hearing is a pretext to throw cold water on the issue of collusion with russian and trump...