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is asking to join john bolton s lawsuit against subpoena power. going up against the president and the suit puts him at odds with other trump allies who have called the impeachment inquiry illegitimate. msnbc contributor, barbara, the times he s going against the president with this. is that what s happening here? in term of the subpoena fight, one of the things that s going on, the cumberman subpoena was withdrawn because perhaps democrats realized they had a good draw for a judge overseeing the don mcgahn matter. perhaps having one judge who rules for them, one who rules against them, they put all their eggs into that basketball and mick mulvaney seems to be trying
leading the impeachment inquiry added the defense department and the office of management and budget to the growing list of those who have been subpoenaed for documents and records. this comes as we re still expecting the white house to send a letter to house speaker nancy pelosi telling her it will not hand over anything to the house until the house votes to formally approve an impeachment inquiry but as this subpoena fight drags out, lawmakers hear testimony from two key players in the saga. u.s. ambassador to the european union, sondland and former ambassador marie. let s start with hans nichols at the white house. any sense soft when, how, or if the white house will plan to respond to the new subpoena it has received from the house committee including the ones from last week? reporter: if is probably the best question there. from the white house s perspective, talking to senior official just moments ago, they refer to this as a faux impeachment. there is a sense they want to
for two years, all of us at this table. really almost every day. it s not like the public doesn t know the body of information there. and that s not what a lot of people are voting on. and to that point, if you had read the report, you didn t learn a lot yesterday. if you hadn t read the report, but it was the democrats saying it more than mueller. he would answer yes or true but refused to read the report. to maggie s point, if you watched all seven and a half hours or if you read the report, it paints a damning picture of a campaign that was more than willing to accept russian help, actually encouraging it, of a president and a candidate who told his aides stymie the investigation, get in the way, try to fire bob mueller. here s one point where mueller was talking with val demmings about was the president of the united states the president refused to sit down for an interview. mueller fought for months, the president refused. mueller ultimately decided not to try a subpoena fight
how the special counsel answers that. why did you say in the report that you don t exonerate the president if you decided not to charge him with obstructing justice? the justice department guidelines, can t indict a sitting president, but what does mueller think about the sitting president? we ll see if he answers the question. there s also interesting things in the appendix where mueller details how the investigation played out. why did he decide not to have a subpoena fight when the president said he would not voluntarily sit down for an in-person interview. see if mueller will answer that. remember, the president did submit written answers to some questions. does the evidence suggest that he was fully candid in those written answers to the special counsel office? that will be another area for the special counsel. republicans will try to attack the credibility of the administration. democrats are hoping even if mueller doesn t go outside of the report, just hearing him read himself t