Margaret hoover. And sunny hostin and david gergen. New jersey lawmakers sending out 20 new subpoenas to the key players in the new jersey traffic scandal and one very big name, the chairman of the agency overseeing the George Washington bridge. Hes the states former attorney general. Dana bash is covering the story and joins us now. So what do you make of these subpoe subpoenas . Reporter it goes to the heart of Chris Christies nir circle. First, names that people are going to be familiar with. Bridget ann kelly, the governors deputy chief of staff. And bill steppian, who is a top political aide. And there are other people who are fit that description. Kevin odowd. He was the governors chief of staff. He was just appointed to or named to be the next attorney general. Then theres charlie mckenna, the governors counsel. And david samson, who is the chairman of the Port Authority of new york and new jersey, but more importantly in this case, in addition to that, is very, very close confi
House democrats on the Judiciary Committee said two things. They dont believe on the merits should the president try and invoke executive privilege it would work. If he did, they point out the political ramifications. That it would look like he was trying to obstruct the testimony. These are two key consideration the white house will have to Pay Attention to as they look forward. As you noted, we dont have an answer. The day before comey appears, the Deputy Attorney general will also testify. Reporter thats right. Separate hearing, separate focus. The big question is, what can members of get out of both Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein but everybody else on the panel . The acting fbi director, the cia director and the director of the nsa. All of these individuals have played some role one way or another in this russia investigation. The reality is, what we have seen over the last couple weeks is all questions will be deferred to the special counsel, bob mueller. Thats the posture
The president himself has talked about the conversations publicly on twitter and in a letter that he and james comey had. Basically, as it stands, theres a lot of question whether he could or not. The white house is reviewing this issue. House democrats on the Judiciary Committee just released a letter saying two things primarily. First and foremost they dont believe on the merits should the president try and invoke executive privilege it would work. If he did, they point out the political ramifications. That it would look like he was trying to obstruct the testimony. These are two key consideration the white house will have to Pay Attention to as they look forward. As you noted, we dont have an answer yet. The day before comey appears, the Deputy Attorney general will also testify. Reporter thats right. Separate hearing, separate focus. The big question is, what can members get out of both Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein but everybody else on the panel . The acting fbi director
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