Executive privilege. one summed it up, who do you want on your side if mueller decides to subpoena the president? you want your wartime consignaturely airy. emmitt is a quintessential wartime consignaturely airy. look. here he was in an interview just this morning, his last interview about this change. it s certainly not off the table. and people are working hard to make decisions and work toward an interview. and assuming that can be concluded favorably, there will be an interview. trump loyalists are increasingly arguing the opposite. they are saying there isn t a way from donald trump s perspective, to meet mutualer in the interview room favorably. it s too much risk, too little reward. and that s why this whole fight could be headed right to the supreme court. i m joined now by california congressman ted liu. he serves on the judicial
Are actually bringing in as you say a consignaturely airy. on the subpoena issue, nixon lost in the supreme court on a similar argument he couldn t be subpoenaed for the tapes. bill clinton ultimately testified. i want to talk about the politics of this rather than just the legal issues. politically if donald trump really wants to sell to the american people that he did nothing wrongen in what does he have to hide? why doesn t he go and talk and have the interview? if he doesn t want to do the interview it suggests he is trying to hide information. in terms of executive privilege they had witnesses inhe can vog it all the time in that s various committees by saying they are going to invoke the executive privilege. they never did, but then they wouldn t answer the questions that the congressional committees have. they would not invoke executive privilege. as you said, the republican controlled congress was not calling them out on it and they were able to answer only the questions th
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