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That potential. however, you know, it all depends on the questioning. it all depends how members of congress do this hearing. i mean, they have the capability of screwing this up. we've seen them do it before. so i don't know whether they'll get from this as you called him a reluctant witness, whether they'll get -- >> you don't seem to have very much confidence in our -- you've seen this -- >> i've seen this movie before. >> chairman schiff told manu raju he doesn't think he considers this a friendly subpoena. >> was this a friendly subpoena in which the special counsel asked to be subpoenaed...

Questions. >> so let's dig into that. what is a friendly subpoena, and why isn't this one friendly? >> so a friendly subpoena is sort of a convention we have sometimes as prosecutors or congress when someone is willing to testify and they will say just give me a subpoena for my records, almost like just give me a receipt for the testimony you're about to give. and it sounds like from representative schiff this is something more. we know mueller does not want to testify. he said it to us a few weeks ago. but ultimately too bad. robert mueller is a human being, he's a former doj employee who too...

Work. and look, it's the nuclear option. and you're starting to see certain congressional leaders, representative schiff alluded to this just a couple of days ago. nancy pelosi is holding a very powerful card here. the question is she willing to play it. >> and the next question is who will they eventually get to come before their committees as the white house continues to stonewall. we're still waiting to see if mueller is going to come and testify. with know the house judiciary committee is seeking that. another viewer asks if and when mueller testifies any limits are there on what questions...

Has been making in federal court about the president's actions. from what we know about the way that michael cohen has been preparing for testimony i think you will see michael cohen saying don't just take my word for it, here are the documents. here is the evidence that i can show. >> and to that point, mueller's team said in court a month or so ago that cohen has been credible and consistent with the other evidence that they had obtained. i know there is a limit to what he can testify about meaning the ongoing russia investigation. he can't testify about it in public. after the mueller repor...

When have you seen that at any federal agency in that's where we should do a real investigation. >> charles: and i want to let the audience know, we reached out to representative schiff and we have not heard back yet. so the point is that the democrats are in charge of the house now. they have champing at the bits. for some of them, this is a campaign promise. for most americans, we're worried about the idea of so much investigation and not enough legislation to keep the country moving. what do you say to your democratic colleagues? >> stop the focus on stopping the president at all costs and ...