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How do you see it playing out, laura? >> unlike last time when you had thumbing of the nose of people who had been subpoenaed, you have a very different white house a very different attorney general who is adamant about the rule of law coming first. what it means is that subpoenas are supposed to be complied with. the average person cannot ignore it. any time someone wants to challenge the validity of the subpoena, you still have to do it on a question by question basis. you can't just say executive privilege. i'm not going to comment at all. you have to actually address it. the idea of use th...

Mueller and then create a false document to deny that fact. that is clear obstruction of justice. now it is a question by question basis. that is the subject of the justification. it seems fairly likely that there was one based on the obstruction of robert mueller's investigation. >> i want to play you one. >> at the very minimum, we will require votes from all of the senators on each of the witnesses about each set of documents. i don't think my colleagues democrat or republican, are going to want evidence in such a

Saying that if he wants to exert executive privilege to avoid testifying, he must do it himself before congress, likely on a question by question basis. house judiciary chair jerry nadler now says that he expects mcgahn to "promptly appear before the committee," and president trump tweeting, "the d.c. wolves and fake news media are reading far too much into people being forced by courts to testify before congress. i am fighting for future presidents and the office of the president. other than that, i would actually like people to testify." this goes directly to the question harris was asking, ...

Unlimited executive power is just simply unconstitutional. it just has no merit. so that argument now is in full view as opposed to just simply being something driving behind the scenes the way in which people have been defending donald trump. >> the headline from judge jackson yesterday was presidents are not kings. that's the case she was making yesterday. >> it was classic federalist paper. this is a public civics class. i have a question for the lawyer types around the table. say people ultimately testify, who gets to decide whether executive privilege is claimed? if john bolton testifies,...

Meanwhile, we're weighing in on the firing of richard spencer following a controversial war crimes case. speaking to reporters yesterday, secretary esper explained he was, quote, flabbergasted to learn that spence her tried to make a secret deal with the white house concerning embattled navy s.e.a.l. eddie gallagher. secretary esper said he demanded spencer's resignation after learning he approached the white house about an arrangement to let gallagher retire as a navy s.e.a.l. if the president stayed out of the case. esper also said monday president trump gave him a direct order to drop disci...