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outstanding supreme court decisions. joining me now to talk about all of them as we wait for them to come down, cnn chief legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, jeffrey toobin. i want to start on a case that is so consequential. explain this for the power of the administrative state and the executive branch to delegate its power. >> congress passes laws. i think everybody knows that. but laws are generally phrased in fairly general terms. and we have administrative agencies that translate those laws into rules that individuals and companies must follow. the question in the west...

Candidates, nominees from president republican president s have learned a lot about how to deal with the hearings. When you heard kavanaugh say as he did, talking about the parties to the case that theyre Flesh And Blood Human Beings and we need to have empathy for them and real world consequences of the court are very important. As a political matter, great stuff. A legal matter, its nonsense. Were youre an Appellate Judge and an issue comes before you, the issue is not the parties. Youre to resolve the legal issues. Its a purely legal matter. The parties may happen to be the case that they p...

So the committee is going to want to ask about those things. those are astonishing statements that she testified to. but even more astonishing is that he seems responsive to this committee request. a source told dana bash who was close to his thinkingly last night that he probably will agree to a transcribed interview with the house select committee with some limitations. obviously there could be some executive privilege carveouts, things about confidential communications between him and the president he will not want to share, but we're in a different situation than we were before. mark meado...

>> it certainly will. your committee has received nearly 8,000 pages of emails from former trump lawyer john eastman who played a key role in crafting the election fraud conspiracy. but he's with holding, more than 11,000 pages. what sort of communications did he share with your committee and what are you still missing? >> well, he has claimed privilege on certain of these documents so this is a huge amount of documents we're still receiving this, evaluating them. but we have a concern. as to whether his privilege claims are adequate and whether he's provided detailed enough information on tho...

Obstruction. we don't necessarily need these witnesses' testimony to make our case, and they move on. >> and so, michael, the other issue is of course the judge says the president himself is not immune from testifying. obviously the chances on that would be -- i mean, i don't know. what do you say? >> i don't think there's any likelihood of that happening that takes it to a whole level when you -- a whole new level when you demand testimony from the president, but i -- just one more point on mcgahn. as you pointed out, this was only a ruling on the broad claim of testimonial immunity, that he ...