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president and his allies in the gop, they re on the attack tonight against one of their own, against republican congressman justin amash, who dared to suggest that mr. trump has engaged in impeachable conduct. mr. mcgahn, was it a mistake in a dramatic attempt to block democrats from conducting their own russia investigation, the trump administration is rejecting the house judiciary committee s subpoena for the testimony of former white house counsel don mcgahn on tuesday. in a letter to the committee s chairman, democrat jerry nadler, the current white house counsel argues that mcgahn is immune from that subpoena, adding, in order to protect the prerogatives of the office of the presidency, the president has directed mr. mcgahn not to appear at the committee s scheduled hearing. mcgahn has already infuriated the president, declining to state publicly that mr. trump did not commit obstruction of justice. he s also told federal investigators in the russia probe that he refused to
situation that you could see where don mcgahn is charged with perjury? you seem to be contradicting what he is saying. i don t want to talk about that now. reporter: the president has been busy beating back another member of his party, justin amash, the first republican congressman to accuse mr. trump of impeachable offenses, who started this tweet storm over the weekend, first tweeting, mueller s report reveals that president trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment. then doubling down today. they say obstruction of justice requires an underlying crime. in fact, obstruction of justice does not require the prosecution of an underlying crime. the president fired back, tweeting that he was, quote, never a fan of justin amash, a total lightweight. justin is a loser, who sadly plays right into our opponent s hands. gop leaders are backing mr. trump. now, you ve got to understand justin amash. he s been in congress quite some
he votes more with nancy pelosi than he ever votes with me. reporter: the president is continuing another war of words with iran, tweeting, if iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of iran. never threaten the united states again. mr. trump turned to fox to justify the brinkmanship. i just don t want them to have nuclear weapons. and they can t be threatening us. and with all of everything that s going on, and i m not one thab that believes you know, i m not someone that wants to go into wars, because war hurts economies, war kills people, by far, most importantly. reporter: iran s foreign minister responded to the president that military action against his country would be a mistake, tweeting, try respect. it works. the tweets are i don t care. reporter: the president is also mad at fox news for hosting a town hall with democrat pete buttigieg, tweeting, fox is moving more and more to the losing wrong side in covering the dems, although the president appears
inflated his wealth and essentially committed fraud of sorts to try to get this kind of information. so the democrats said to this company, give us ten years of the president s financial records, so we can understand believe it or not the president, he was a private citizen, acted improperly in any way. and that s what the white house, that s what the trump organization fought and tried to get this court to side with them, which they at the moment appear to have failed to do so. but that statement you just read, wolf, very significant. because that is the essence of several white house arguments to try to deny these democratic requests by saying, look, there is absolutely no reason for congress to seek this information, because there s no, quote, legitimate reason for getting this. there s no legitimate legislative reason. they argue, this is all politics. intended to harass the president. they have said that in a number of letters back to congress, as they tried to deny these demands