standpoint of deciding whether or not any crimes were committed and second, if not that whether their people remaining in the department or the fbi who could be subject to disciplinary action and most importantly, the president s words, a candidate never has to face this again. some real hard questions about how the fbi wandered off in the wilderness here without supervision from leadership at the department of justice. l laura: there is a lot here to unpack. we now have on capitol hill they re trying to pull in, the former communications director hope hicks and don mcgahns s chief of staff andy donaldson. we have nadler threatening contempt, holding him in contempt and threatening other subpoenas beyond these two new
going to be looking at from the standpoint of deciding whether or not any crimes were committed and dislike it, if not that whether their people remaining in the department or the fbi who could be subject to disciplinary action and most importantly, the president s words, a candidate never has to face this again. some real hard questions about how the fbi wandered off in the wilderness here without supervision from leadership at the department of justice spirit laura: there is a lot here to unpack. we now have on capitol hill, they re trying to pull in, the former medication director, hope hicks and on mcgann s chief of staff andy donaldson. we have nadler threatening
hope hicks along with andy donaldson. mcgahn had been ordered to appear but he skipped the hearing after being directed by president trump to ignore the subpoena. president took it upon himself to intimidate a witness who has a legal obligation to be here today. this conduct is not remotely acceptable. let me be clear, this committee will hear will mcgahn s testimony, even if we have to go to court to secure it. we will not allow the president to prevent the american people from hearing from this witness. and republican senator lindsey graham, the chairman of the senate judiciary committee says the courts will decide whether mcgahn will testify. if i were the president, i would not voluntarily participate in what i think is sort of a political witch hunt. so as the trump administration continues to stonewall investigation, a growing number of democrats are
in short, the president took it upon himself to intimidate a witness who has a legal obligation to be here today. this conduct is not remotely acceptable. let me be clear, this committee will hear his testimony even if we have to go to court to secure it. his allies fighting back hard, arguing that democrats have his testimony already in the mueller report. they just seem to want to turn a book into a movie. mueller to me was the guy that we all considered to be fair. the mueller report said that he testified 30 hours. what i see going on in the house is more political revenge than anything else. two more subpoenas today. andy donaldson at hope hicks, former white house aides. hope hicks currently the executive vice president and chief communications officer for the fox corporation. no word whether donaldson or hicks would comply with a subpoena. if they don t, they will join
executive privilege. this is not a partisan issue, this is something that all presidents have raised at least going back as far as glen roosevelt, and that s the right of keeping their closest aides from being dragged before congress for one for two reasons. one is congress doesn t have the right to direct the president before it to treat as it wishes and asking questions, so the closest aides don t have to either. and second, this is an issue the lower courts have agreed, the congress can t repeatedly harass the president are trying to drag their aides, his aides, and so often that the president is not able to do the nation s business, he is not able to fulfill his own constitutional responsibility so i expect president trump will invoke executive privilege for both donaldson and hicks just as he did with don mcgahn. shannon: something we ve seen them do in the past. we ve heard many of these arguments across both sides of the aisle. i want to put much weight that comes from democ