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executive privilege protects the office of the president, not the individual who may be holding it. so can trump stop witnesses from speaking to investigators? not if the witness wants to speak to the investigator regardless. trump can say, look, i want to assert executive privilege here, i don t want you to talk to the investigator, but ultimately the vej who s been subpoenaed has to make that decision for themselves. and what i think will happen here if congress is going to be aggressive about it, if they mean what they say when they issue these subpoenas is they will refer these individuals for criminal prosecution to the department of justice. and that s, i think, the first time we ll actually see these witnesses facing real serious consequences for refusing to testify. but that is a process if they do that could take a long time. i mean democrats could run out the clock, right? i mean if this goes to court, this could take a long time. well, it could. but there s a way to
future attempt to overturn an election? what can be done legally to prevent those efforts in the future, to protect future elections? well, pamela, i think that s really the ultimate question here. what can we do to make sure this doesn t happen again? it s not going to be issuing another report. that s not going to ensure it doesn t happen again. if you look to what people do in criminal cases, what prosecutors do. we look for deterrents. what is going to deter someone from acting on behalf of a president who wants to stay in office when those actions are unlawful? it s prosecution. so i think if congress goes ahead and is very aggressive as they ve said they re going to be in enforcing these subpoenas, that s a good first step. let s send a message that we mean what we say, we re taking this seriously and people are going to beheld accountable. so i see your point but do you think that the committee waited too long to get going given the mid-terms and the
it begins with what barbara is saying. she did give me a flashback. she used to fire subpoenas over at me. i was from the white house, she say over on the hill. i think she probably didn t like the democrats who ran the white house, i didn t like the republicans who ran congress. every time the subpoenas came, i honored, i complied. it was constitutional. it was legal. so i do hope they punish any law breakers. there s no insurrectionist privilege as barbara points out. mr. bannon had been out of the white house three years when the insurrection happened. here s the big difference between those other investigations. when democrats were looking into the ukraine scandal or even the 1/6 scandal trump was largely in control of the executive branch so he could hold back a lot of information. even if he keeps mr. bannon or three and four others from testifying illegally there s a lot of information democrats
in goods hit a record high of $891 billion. the same day that auto maker general motors announced plans to close yet another assembly plant and cutting nearly 1,700 jobs. and because you tried to go after china alone instead of banding together with our allies, american farmers are bearing the brunt of your bad decisions. farmers across the midwest are filing for bankruptcy at alarming rates, not seen in a decade. during the campaign you promised that eliminating our national debt would be a piece of cake. what happened? not only do we have a historic trade deficit, but you and republicans who ran congress for the past two years spent real big and passed tax cut packages that still hasn t been paid for.