the funding? yeah. the white house says mulvaney won t cooperate and if he doesn t, he won t be alone. john bolton was supposed to be deposed today but didn t show up. that doesn t mean he s refusing out right. the washington post reporting bolton does not want to compile with the democratic inquiry without a court ruling on the on going constitutional dispute between the trump administration and congress. here to talk about it, barrett burger, former assistant u.s. attorney with the eastern district of new york and southern district of new york. good to see you sgen. good to see you. among the people that are invited to come or don t come, the john bolton thing seems to be a category to itself. what is the argument they are trying to make or waiting for for the courts? so it seems they set up this sort of strange condition, right? they said we re willing to come in if you give us the subpoena
that is absolutely appropriate. the funding? yeah. the white house says mulvaney won t cooperate and if he doesn t, he won t be alone. john bolton was supposed to be deposed today but didn t show up. that doesn t mean he s refusing out right. the washington post reporting bolton does not want to compile with the democratic inquiry without a court ruling on the on going constitutional dispute between the trump administration and congress. here to talk about it, barrett burger, former assistant u.s. attorney with the eastern district of new york and southern district of new york. good to see you sgen. good to see you. among the people that are invited to come or don t come, the john bolton thing seems to be a category to itself. what is the argument they are trying to make or waiting for for the courts? so it seems they set up this sort of strange condition, right? they said we re willing to come
the white house says mulvaney won t cooperate and if he doesn t, he won t be alone. former national security adviser john bolton was supposed to be deposed today but didn t show up. that doesn t mean he s refusing out right. the washington post reporting bolton doesn t want to comply with the democratic inquiry without a court ruling on the on going constitutional dispute between the trump administration and congress. here to talk about it, barrett burger, former assistant u.s. attorney with the eastern district of new york and southern district of new york. good to see you again. among the people that are invited to come or don t come, the john bolton thing seems to be a category to itself. what is the argument they are trying to make or waiting for from the courts? so it seems they set up this sort of strange condition, right? they said we re willing to come in if you give us the subpoena but we want to let it play out in the courts first. we want to see what the courts
mulvaney. they are suggesting any of them could be freelancing. this strategy on the president s fiercest defenders in the house republican conference and looking at those three fake players that figure prominently so far in the testimony that s been gathered in this impeachment inquiry to basically try to distance the president from some of the worst allegations from the quid pro quo by speculating whether they were freelancing and acting upon what they assumed to be the president s motivations and interests but without direct orders and directives from the president, mark meadows, the republican congressman from north carolina, close confident of presidents trump spoke to my colleagues about this and basically said the whole point here is toy t try to separate t point. that would be an interesting strategy if the president himself hadn t come out to the cameras at the white house a few times and released a memo of the transcript of the phone call and
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