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Thank you very much. we will check back in with you. >> molly: let's bring in francesca chambers, white house correspondent. thanks so much for joining us, we appreciate your insights today. politics does not stop over the holidays. yet again another wild week in politics despite this being a holiday week. the democrats and republicans going back and forth. mark marron just reporting there from washington talking about the president saying they are still on the hunt for the evidence. do think this was essentially a stall tactic over getting the articles, that they are still on the hunt? >> the...

Not what we call frivolous but at the end of the day it is really not a legitimate argument to make that the court has no place. it may impede upon the impeachment proceedings and therefore hold off, hold the phone don't do it. i think that, no, it is not at all. >> do you think it is a stall tactic. >> what else. it is a complete stall. we know that congress has a responsibility and that includes getting information from the executives. >> so to your point, in terms of congress has a responsibility, the house as we just heard is saying, listen, part of the reason we need to hear from don mcga...

Been discussed. interesting take right there. what are we expecting to hear from bolton, and why would they eve bring this out if they're not going there and testify easily, why even bring something like that up? that we have information. we've got the goods? >> yeah. they seem to be trying to walk this weird line suggesting that he really wants to testify, that he's willing, but he wants a specific court ruling saying congress is right and the white house is wrong and, therefore, he can testify. the truth of it is, he could testify right now. you've seen a lot of witnesses testify over the or...

So if this next hearing isn't until december, is this an effective strategy now to block certain testimony? stall until it is perhaps too late? >> i think so. frankly, ana, we've seen this strategy unfolding for quite sometime. i think it has been effective for the white house to delay. in this case, kupperman brought that suit and the judge said i'm going to do this as fast as possible. this is an urgent matter. and then he set a hearing for early december. so i think that gives you a sense of even when the courts are acting quickly it may not be quickly enough for our political calendar. i w...

Treated unfairly and you can't believe the facts. you have to focus on something else. so it's really a base argument. it's not going to be affected by anything a judge says. it's really impervious to reality. >> renato, the 75-page ruling points out how mueller made clear congress is the body where their ability to impeach to keep going where mueller left off. in multiple instances, the judge calls out the doj for being wrong. >> yeah. it's a remarkable opinion in how clear she is about -- how clear the judge is about really how unlawful the actions of the justice department and the trump adm...