all of this and we have a statement from that white house official to put up on screen that said mulvaney counsel is working closely with the white house counsel office and they were advised before it took place and having the president be on the lawsuit is, as the state continues, a technicality given the competing instructions begin to mr. mulvaney, the lawsuit is nonadversarial as to the president and in no way indicates any distance between the president and the acting chief. and so mick mulvaney is trying to say in court, wolf, that he s basically caught between a rock and a hard place. he s been subpoenaed to testify up on capitol hill and this house impeachment inquiry but the white house counsel is saying that mick mulvaney should have immunity. one of the wrinkles in all of this, charles kupperman s attorneys are arguing in court today in a filing that mick mulvaney should not have the same protections that charles kupperman should have and that mick mulvaney and that infamous
about veterans day festivities in new york city. in 1985, he donated $1 million to create a vietnam veterans memorial in the city s financial district. and in 1995, according to new york times, he gave $200,000 in exchange for being named grand marshal of the parade, though it was unclear he was actually granted this honor. as a house impeachment inquiry enters the public phase, the white house communications office is expected to add two new trump allies to its staff. according to a senior administration official, a former florida attorney general pam bondi, and former treasury department spokesman tony, are both expected to join the white house communications team on a temporary basis, to work on impeachment messaging and other special projects. now, while president trump was resistant to the idea of a formal team to focus solely on impeachment, republican lawmakers and conservative groups have advised the white house in recent weeks to bring in additional help for the impeachmen
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more with mimi about the importance of a judge saying this out loud, that this is a house impeachment inquiry that s authorized, and the white house s arguments about this are in some respects laughable, but that has been proven already by the fact that all of these witnesses have trundled into this secure basement in the house offices, because one of the legal claims that the white house has made and the state department and the defense department have made to these witnesses you d better not go in there, because this is not an authorized inquiry. the lawyers for those witnesses have all obviously agreed that that doesn t hold water and that they re witnesses, their clients can go in. and in fact, in a lot of cases, people have said we re not going to testify, and the minute the house pushes, they say i m on my way in. mimi, i did on twitter promise our viewers that we would dedicate at least a good portion of this show to how to secure your phone so that you don t accidentally bu
about iphone design tonight, but not this yet. phil mattingly, thank you very much for being with us. appreciate it. for analysis of a decision that upholds a precedent the judge and others call the watergate roadmap, which helped lead to the downfall of richard nixon, we have former nixon white house counsel and watergate whistle-blower john dean, legal analyst elliot williams and adviser to four former presidents, david gergen, elliot, there are two separate things that happened here, and, yes, this was specifically about the mueller documents, but put that aside because legally speaking, i think the more important part of this has to do with legitimizing the current house impeachment inquiry. how significant of a ruling is that? it s profoundly significant because what you have is a court saying now that what an impeachment proceeding is, is a judicial proceeding. now, that s relevant in the law. the grand jury s secrecy rules,