those attempts made, yes, back through mr. mcgahn. his testimony has been blocked by the white house. judiciary chairman jerry nadler announcing today, compelling mcgahn s testimony is the next legal battle. all of that together is the what, the evidence. in court, more than in politics, it s not just the what, it s the why. why do you get typically secret evidence? what is the authority. where in law or the constitution does it give congress this kind of power? and is it so clear that a judge can then order around the doj or who s to provide. this is an interesting part today because the why, in this potential arcane legal brief, the why went off like a rocket today. the why is the impeachment power. which is in the constitution. it s one of congress s greatest potential powers right up there
this prize internal polling data with the russian operative, and perhaps why, because you see there, we know what was alluded to. it is redacted. the reason it was redacted is because of grand jury material. now, in the court filing today, the house judiciary committee argues there are several episodes that have this kind of information redacted and the committee needs it. they need it because the doj will not allow prosecution of a sitting president and they explained the house is the only institution of the federal government that can now hold president trump accountable for these actions. they also point to the planned questioning of former white house counselling don mcgahn, the star witness of the mueller report cited over 150 times. house judiciary making the case if there is grand jury testimony of the president s knowledge of these events and how his campaign approached all of it, that would shed light on what the president might have been trying to cover up with his repeated a
adding, i know roger stone he was in the olive oil business with my father but that was a long long time ago so i told them roger stone this, roger stone that. now, prosecutors are calling stone on his drama here, saying since he brought this up as the foundation of what he told a witness to do, they intend to show jurors exactly what stone is referring to, adding to not show the clip at trial would deprive jurors of significant context for understanding critical messages in this case. and the god father series, the message was lie to the feds, lie to the prosecutors, lie to congress, or somebody gets hurt. now, prosecutors are telling roger stone quote that gangster attitude as your mantra at your own peril. i was in the olive oil business with his father but
you had mueller holding the line. is there something in the grand jury material that moves things, do you think? i suspect there s good information there. a lot of people kept saying in advance of the mueller hearing that they were looking for the movie version of the report, and it s clear mueller doesn t win any academy awards for best dramatic actor, but what happens here is the report is maybe a sleeper documentary in that academy awards hunt, and the grand jury material, prosecutors don t go into grand jury with the witness unless there s something important that they need to pin down, something important that they want to preserve, so not getting that full flavor means congress may be lacking some of the best evidence, the most sensitive information. if i were in congress, i would be demanding this material too. i expect it will be productive. we re almost out of time, but ben, to joyce s point, rarely do you see great method actors appearing under subpoena. i mean, there wer
i was in the olive oil business with his father, but that was a long time ago. that s all. good old frank pentangeli a character from the god father two where he plays a mobster then turned congressional witness where he folded under threat. personifies witness tampering, which is why it seems so dumb to invoke him as a totem felony the prosecutors found it important. they quoted that very reference in a case against stone. the case includes a charge of tampering with a witness. when stone was indicted in january, bob mueller s team alleged he told cretitco he explained the godfather reference as a nod to his own