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You'll never take back our country with weakness. you fight like hell and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. donald trump's words replayed in an opinion like this is part of the extraordinary circumstances that have led this appeals court to decide that there is no privilege, no credible claim of privilege on the ex-president's part, could be the beginning of the end of this element of trump's obstruction effort with the 1/6 committee, jonathan. >> yeah. you're certainly right, nicole. a template here would be established. if this was turned over, we coul...

Democrats are aware that mcconnell is playing pure politics with this and have yet to signal whether his offer is feasible in their view. one democratic senator has already called it, quote, b.s. for the u.s. the stakes could not be higher. if republicans follow through on their obstruction effort in effect they would be responsible for the delay of benefit payments to tens of millions of retirees, medicare, and medicaid providers and numerous rouse others receiving checks from the u.s. treasury. it could lead to a catastrophic default on the nation's deb. the government has never defaulted on...

Separate investigations amounting to what many call the most expansive white house obstruction effort in decades. the latest act blocking former white house counsel don mcgahn from answering questions in front of congress. that puts congress and the democrats in a tough position of what to do next. we are joined by leon panetta, former white house chief of staff. i would like you to talk about the role of the white house. how do you assess these declarations of presidential power and congress? >> i can't help but think the president and the white house are just pushing themselves towards an im...

Before he was going to be sentenced that was eventually delayed but before he was going to be sentenced. the government outlocated all the things he cooperated on but significant portions that have filing were redacted. now with the mueller report being publicly releases and with flynn only awaiting sentencing, the judge decided to unredact or push prosecutors to unredact certain parts of this filing. that's how we got this yesterday, information about the obstruction case and it was information i think that the two most important pieces of this is that flynn had actual evidence of voice mail ...

Part of the original olc opinions that were issued by the justice department, which are historical and there was one written in the nixon years, another one that's authoritative that was written in the clinton years, talk about the fact that an indictment would affect the president into not being able to carry out his duties. this president as a factual matter spends a lot of his time actually doing things that are not presidential. tweeting, executive time, golfing, all of those things. and i actually think there's an argument that that could play against the historical interpretation. in any...