justice you cover all this. the letter that went to from nadler to whitaker back onnian wear 22nd laying out all these questions and saying let us know 48 hours before this hearing start you re not going to answer these, and then the whole subpoena fight. we just heard nadler admit a subpoena wouldn t do anything here. as we ve sort of been discussing, congress really has only a couple options, so we wondered how much would the democrats want to press the point when a man who will be replaced in a couple weeks. obviously they tried to press the subpoena, and he flawed it in some way, if he didn t an questions and they could try to hold him in contempt, but if they tried to take it to court that s a civil remedy. if they tried to refer to doj
answer many of the questions posed by the democrats? reporter: this was the whole scenario that nadler wanted to avoid and why he said ahead of time, tell me if you plan on exerting executive privilege, if the white house plans on exerting it over any of the communications, confidential, between trump and whitaker. on this issue, congress really only has a couple options. if he doesn t answer questions, they can try to then serve him with a subpoena later. if they want to, to try to pursue that in the house with a context vote in the committee, then in the full house. if that is successful, they only have a few options. they can take him to court. a civil action. they could enforce the subpoena themselves with their powers. they could try to refer the matter to doj for prosecution. in this case, that would be useless as the idea of the u.s. attorney in d.c. going after the u.s. attorney general just seems farfetched. their hands are tied. good report. thank you very much.
retired immigration and naturalization service senior special agent, michael cutler. thank you for being here this morning. thank you for having me. jillian: can you explain how what was done over the weekend was different from what happened in 2013? in my judgment, material lit was the same. you have an out-of-control situation. you have border patrol agents that are sworn to secure our borders against unlawful entry. all that was done was a measure trto try to regain control of a violent situation. they were pelted brin by rocks d bottles. jillian: they had a couple options. the options was either retreat which would have been a disaster, or deadly force or less than lethal force. they opted for less than lethal force. if you look at the purpose of our immigration laws at our borders, it s first and foremost to protect national security and publipubpublic safety. the 9/11 commission report made
mueller investigation. you don t believe that s necessary. i don t. i think congress has a couple options. i think that the mueller probe should be allowed to proceed, i think firing rosenstein would be a terrible decision and i m hoping that some external pressure would allow the president to see through what i think is impulsive on his desire to do this. congress will have other options. this he could do a 9/11 kind of commission if that were to happen, they could do a special committee like a watergate committee that they ve done before. they could also pass a law that says that the appeals court would nominate a special counsel to finish the investigation. so i think i would let that play out before i d get into the big drama of trying to preempt something that we do not know for sure would happen. whatever happens, jane, you think it should happen quickly because of the message its sending to the intelligence community, everyone involved in the different investigations. i d
neighbors and customers of vladimir putin. they made the decision a number of years ago to buy more natural gas and oil from mr. putin. they need to maintain a strong military and pay their fair share so that is a legitimate thing. let s move on to what you want to talk about, lee is page, the fbi lawyer who became embroiled in the fight between president trump and robert mueller in terms of this investigation. she was supposed to appear in front of lawmakers yourself included, i believe yesterday. she did not appear. you have offered her a couple options. she can appear in private later this week or public next to peter strzok to testify. if she does not do so what are the consequences? well, the consequences are she could be held in contempt of congress. however late last night through her attorney lisa page did agree