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Obstructing congress in his refusal to allow some of these witnesses to show up to provide testimony. for now, this means a huge win for democrats arguing the president's aides do not have absolute immunity. obviously, there's a lot of other people the democrats have been looking to possibly bring in for testimony. john bolton is at the top of that list. it's not clear whether this ruling would apply to john bolton. he's in a different category. according to this judge nobody is above having to respond to these legal subpoenas from congress. >> on capitol hill, getting reaction as well, a majo...

Judge has said don mcgahn and the president's aides don't enjoy absolute immunity, don't have to show up essentially. the administration has been arguing they don't have to show up to respond to these subpoenas. don mcgahn has been fighting the sympathy 7 months now. according to the judge's ruling, it goes without saying the law applies to former white house counsel don mcgahn just as it does to other current and senior white house officials. the implications are huge. if this ruling stands, don mcgahn is going to have to show up and provide some testimony to the house that has been requestin...

Everyone should come forward and testify i don't think we will see officials lining up to do this. >> jeffrey toobin is going through this decision by this federal judge. what's jumping out at you? >> this is a tremendous victory for the house of representatives. the question is, is it a symbolic victory because of the element of time? the issue here is when any of these former or current white house aides will testify. this is a victory but it's just the beginning of the legal process. the white house has already indicated it will appeal this to the d.c. circuit. that is a process that will c...

Mueller panel. >> he did. 30 hours with the executive branch testifying within the special prosecutor. this is the question whether or not he has to go before congress and answer congress's question in an adversarial setting and sets significant precedent for the impeachment now and will make much harder for them to claim they don't have to recognize the subpoenas at all. >> i think that's true. we are going to see everyone fighting a subpoena come up with their own unique argument for why they are special and they should not necessarily have to comply. when it comes to the national security p...

Year. the question is will any actual testimony come forward at a time useful to the democrats for the impeachment process. >> will don mcgahn, the former white house counsel need to await legal appeals by the white house or justice department or potentially could he make a decision on his own, since he has been ordered to appear before the house of representatives by this u.s. district court judge, can he decide to obey what the judge ordered? >> he could. but my sense is having gone this far he will probably continue. there are a number of witnesses the last few weeks who defied the white ho...