subpoenaed by the house judiciary committee, now blocking them from testifying about what they told former special counsel robert mueller. the letter from white house counsel to chairman jerry nadler directions former advisers not to appear before congress saying the two are absolutely immune from testifying. both are key witnesses in several instances of potential obstruction of justice laid out by mueller. the second letter places limitations on what former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski can and cannot say. lewandowski is not allowed to answer any questions with his communications with the president beyond what was in the mueller report. nadler responded to the letter saying this is a knocking and dangerous assertion of executive privilege and absolutely immunity. the president would have us believe that he can willfully engage in criminal activity and prevent witnesses from testifying before congress, even if they did not actually work for him or his administration. join
obstruction of justice laid out by mueller. a second letter places limitations on what former trump campaign manager cory lewandowski can and cannot say. sip loney said lewandowski is not allowed to any answer questions about his communications with the president beyond what was in the mueller report. nadler responded to the letter saying, quote, this is a shocking and dangerous assertion of executive privilege and absolute immunity. the president would have us believe that can he willful i engage in criminal activity and prevent witnesses from testifying before congress even if they did not actually work for him or his administration. makes a point there. meanwhile, house intelligence committee chair adam schiff on friday issued a subpoena to the acting director of national intelligence joseph mcguire to force the production of a
questions she was prevented from answering by the white house and justice department lawyer who accompanied her. sure. i could give you two examples. and it will help explain the range of issues. on the subject of the obstruction of justice, laid out by mueller, that is the president asked the his personal lawyer to fire the special counsel, then when that ras reported, the president asked him to lie about it and then create a false record. well hope hicks knows about all of that given the role that she played in the white house. and i asked her about each of those. and we have a right to hear from her to fill in what was missing from the mueller report and in each instance the white house lawyer jumped in and said, no, you can t answer that. those were really troubling. but to show you how absurd it is. she couldn t even answer a question about whether she told