this, that this conservative lawyer john eastman said he ll defy the subpoena from the commit tee. how will the committee respond? i guess what he is saying and i think he made this public in an interview with steve bannon is to assert the fifth and we will try to ascertain when he does as we will when we depose mr. clarke to assert the fifth whether it is in good faith believing they may be implicated in criminal activity or whether merely trying to cover up for the former president. it is a difficult determination to make. if he believes that his testimony would implicate him in crime then he does have a right to assert the fifth and we will determine if that s proper and questions to answer without fear of incrimination. eastman says the partisan
trump whether it involves the rule of law or foreign diplomacy or episodes like jeffrey epstein, you have trump supporters saying what about hillary clinton? what about bill clinton. either one neither are in office anymore and none have been in the public scene for quite a long time. it becomes a way to support trump and say that trump s critics or the media is not paying enough attention to the clintons. if you are going to criticize people who overlooked jeffrey epstein s misdeeds. all is a distraction from the reason people are paying attention to donald trump. he s the president of the united states and he has a skeleton in his closet that is a mile deep. it includes people like jeffrey epstein. people are asking the question because he is wielding authority and power and bill clinton isn t. let s take the case down the road. let s assume you got to a point of a conviction with jeffrey epstein. he doesn t have fear of incrimination.