toothpaste back in the tube now and that 20, 30 years from now we re not going to catch up, they re going to own technology and in a lot of ways own the world. as much as i disagree with trump in so many areas, i m with him there. but the mexico tear is, when you start to conflagrate human rights issues, i have a problem. i agree. the mexican issue is complex. to mush all of that into one while you re dealing with china, which is the right move. you agree with me on china? i wouldn t take it to the extreme of 25% but you got to do something. remember, we re buying from this 600 billion and they re buying from us 100 billion. when we re both buying from each other 300 billion, you got nothing to say. you don t play the cards while you re winning, you got a big problem. they steal our i.p., casually and easily every day. they don t play by the same
investigation like don mcgahn, i don t think this game works. you ve got to get people on camera in front of the congress. interesting. so laura, is the white house even making an executive privilege claim and would that hold up? no, it doesn t appear they are, don. just continuing to say no, we re telling you not to do this. and it s our prerogative, and we re instructing you. because the thought is perhaps some of the material may be content the president of the united states could assert privilege over. the problem with that, don, is he has not drone so in all kba s capacities. so you don t get to have it loom over heads in case you get to do it one day. if you don t assert it, you lose the privilege. and keep in mind, aside from what hope hicks has not been published or from donaldson, if things have been contained and disclosed in the mueller probe. and so if you re trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube now, that s not going to be successful. and yet, still, there is s
30 hours. right to. to bob mueller so he s trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube, and i don t know how successfully he ll be able to do that. it will clearly go to court, and this will go on a little while. i want to the ask about the olc, the legal counsel memo and the rationale behind the instructions not to testify. they didn t tell him not to show up. your read, and i m not a lawyer much to the disappointment of my parents, your reading of the memo how much will this stand up if it goes multiple steps further? i don t think it holds up a lot. it s reliant on doj opportunities and what immunities various officers have. the two relevant opinions, one game in 2008, the end of the bush administration, harriet miers being forced to come forward and testify, they lost on that and the other one came at the end of the obama administration, fast and furious. they lost on the executive privilege argument, so if it went to the merits, they would ultimately lose and some of the
counsel, don pc mcgahn, jerry nadler just issued a statement saying, the committee will convene as planned tomorrow morning and mr. mcgahn is expected to appear, as legally required. most people don t expect him to be there at 10:00 a.m.. i don t think that s going to happen. the white house has said no. clearly, the committee could hold don mcgahn in contempt, but the white house and the department of justice has said that you can t compel mcgahn to testify about his conversations with the president. look, there are lots of people who believe you can t put the toothpaste back in the tube after he testified before bob mueller for 30 hours. but mcgahn s not going to show up tomorrow. jerry nadler knows it. and maybe they re just going to have another show hearing. is there any chance mcgahn defies the white house and does show up. he s a private citizen? not tomorrow. i don t know the answer, though i would lean no, wolf. because whether or not mcgahn
report. they re now claiming the whole thing retroactively is covered by executive privilege, which is weird assertion, but they re doing that specifically because they hope that gives them an extra tool so they can try to prevent anybody from testifying about it or talking about it. and in the midst of all that today, surprise here s judge sullivan saying, actually, i order you to release it. i here by direct you in this court order to remove all the redactions which relate to my case, which is the mike flynn case. take all of that out, make this public, you ve got two weeks. so i know the white house is doing everything they can to try to keep everything secret to try to stuff the toothpaste back in the tube, but look at how this is going now. the judge overseeing the roger stone case started off this week by herself getting an unredacted version of the mueller at least as it pertains to everything having to do with wikileaks and roger stone and anything else