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Testimonial immunity, even if it is a former counsel. the committee chairman jerry nadler insisting mcgahn cannot ignore the committee subpoenas. listen here. >> when this committee issues a subpoena, even to senior presidential advisor, the witness must show up. our subpoenas are not optional. mr. mcgahn has a legal obligation to be here for this scheduled appearance. if he does not immediately correct his mistake, this committee will have no choice but to enforce the subpoena against him. >> the ranking member of the committee, doug collins dismissing the whole exercise as nothing more than ...

William barr's no-show a couple weeks ago, instead of william barr sitting at the dias, we saw a bucket of kentucky fried chicken. president trump insisting this is not about him. listen here. pres. trump: as i understand it, that is for the office of presidency for future presidents. i think it is a very important precedent and the attorneys say they are not doing that for me, they are doing it for the office of the president. so we're talking about the future. >> don't forget, the opinion about mcgahn's testimony came from office of legal counsel and famously back in 1999 during the clinton ...

About a president's duty. for those reasons, the justice department says mcgahn cannot be compelled to testify before congress and he also -- the opinion says if he stiffs congress on the subpoena, he can't be prosecuted or sued civilly. >> you say cannot be compelled. is there any room if mcgahn wanted to appear voluntarily or does this shut down any possibility for the time being that he would appear? >> he could. he could say thank you, i know you don't want me to testify but i want to do it anyway. that doesn't seem very likely but in theory, a person could do that, that's right. >> we men...

I'm erica hill in today for jake. we begin with breaking news in our politics lead. president trump moments ago blocking the testimony of former white house counsel don mcgahn before the house judiciary committee tomorrow. mcgahn is the lawyer who advised trump throughout the mueller probe and he has the notes to prove it. let's get right to cnn's pamela brown at the white house. tamel pamela, what is the white house saying? >> reporter: we have learned that president trump is asserting immunity in order to block former white house counsel don mcgahn, a key witness in the russia probe, from te...