Congressional subpoenas and cant be forced to testify before congress. Lets bring in attorney david rifkin, he served during the reagan and georg george h. W. Buh administrations. Welcome. Thank you for coming today. David, how strong is this president s case for saying that his aides dont have to testify because of this immunity . Very strong. It is a wellestablished immunity, paul, dates back to 1971, an opinion written by william republica renquist, been reaffirmed in nine administrations and both parties, fully case law. Ittheres a group of people tht see the president every day, he communicates with them, the 1971 opinion says the president is a coequal branch, he cannot command that members of congress appear before him. They cannot command he appears before them. I want to emphasize one more point. The reason the president has a strong position, theres another form of absolute immunity based upon 1989 opinion, he went on to be a chief judge in the fourth circuit. That stands for
Congressional subpoenas and cant be forced to testify before congress. Lets bring in attorney david rifkin, he served during the reagan and georg george h. W. Buh administrations. Welcome. Thank you for coming today. David, how strong is this president s case for saying that his aides dont have to testify because of this immunity . Very strong. It is a wellestablished immunity, paul, dates back to 1971, an opinion written by william republica renquist, been reaffirmed in nine administrations and both parties, fully case law. Ittheres a group of people tht see the president every day, he communicates with them, the 1971 opinion says the president is a coequal branch, he cannot command that members of congress appear before him. They cannot command he appears before them. I want to emphasize one more point. The reason the president has a strong position, theres another form of absolute immunity based upon 1989 opinion, he went on to be a chief judge in the fourth circuit. That stands for
Cant be forced to testify before congress. Lets bring in attorney david rifkin, he served during the reagan and georg george h. W. Buh administrations. Welcome. Thank you for coming today. David, how strong is this president s case for saying that his aides dont have to testify because of this immunity . Very strong. It is a wellestablished immunity, paul, dates back to 1971, an opinion written by william republica renquist, been reaffirmed in nine administrations and both parties, fully case law. Ittheres a group of people tht see the president every day, he communicates with them, the 1971 opinion says the president is a coequal branch, he cannot command that members of congress appear before him. They cannot command he appears before them. I want to emphasize one more point. The reason the president has a strong position, theres another form of absolute immunity based upon 1989 opinion, he went on to be a chief judge in the fourth circuit. That stands for the proposition that Nation
The first familys bedroom. Gonzalez apparently raced through the east room, site of historic bill signings before a assault agent tackled him on the way to the green room. See vet service said gonzalez was busted at main entrance. They are testifying before previously scheduled hearing over the House Oversight and reef form committee. Wendell goler at the white House Keeping an eye on it all. Hello, wendell. Reporter hi, shannon. Julia pierson took charge of the secret Service Nearly a year after the age ses a prostitution scandal in cart at that hain yaw. After a reality tv star crash ad state dinner. Omar gonzalez raised new questions. It was hard to belief he made it across the north lawn without getting tackled or shot orbitten by a guard dog. But we were led to belief he was tackled just inside the front door which by the way was unlocked. Gonzalez made it well inside of the white house into the east room before an agent tackled him. In addition were learning a alarm system was tu
Lets bring in constitutional attorney david rivkin. He served in the White House Counsels Office during the reagan and george h. W. Bush administrations. David welcome. Thank you for coming today. So, david, how strong is this president s case for saying that his aides dont have to testify because of this immunity . Very strong. It is a well established immunity, paul. It dates back to 971. 1971. The opinion written by a Young William rehnquist who, as you know, went on to be a chief justice of the United States. Been reaffirmed in nine administrations under both parties, its a very simple proposition. Its called the mediad vising immunity. Immediate advising immunity. They cannot command that he appears before them, those people are essentially his alter egos. But i want too emphasize one moe pointfo, theres another form of absolute immunity that is based upon a 1988 opinion by mike ludig. That stands for the proposition that National Security information, no matter in whose hands it