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Ruling you see what this federal judge thinks of that. and we knew that they were skeptical of this argument that the white house had been making about how essentially everyone was protected by this. but what you see in this is just how far it goes because this is much broader than just the former white house attorney. and whether or not he can go before congress. but it goes into national security officials as well which is essentially you re reading former national security adviser john bolton who is making the argument that his case is different from mcgahn s because he was so involved on these national security issues. the judge said, no, that is not the situation there. you cannot get this widespread, you know, point-blank ruling about whether or not someone can testify. that s on the mcgahn issue, it relates to witnesses appearing before congress. you have the tax issue now. and the supreme court putting a stay, but not really tipping its hand as to whether where it s going t ....
Rules and giuliani and his minions. we are still looking for the unredacted mueller papers to still come out where we could go back to a pattern. could be the white whael a lot of people are waiting to hear from. if john bolton can testify. you ve written a great piece about the obstruction argument. we are at this tipping point where this is not playing out. that s true, the house democrats feel like they don t necessarily have to wait to get this testimony because they ve ....
That the legal discussions are ongoing. and that they are still collecting all of the evidence. however, in speaking with constitutional experts, chris, i am told that this is also likely to be the impeachment vehicle because if you look at history, this is the same way that they drew up the case against richard nixon. there were three articles of impeachment for abuse of power, for contempt of congress, and obstruction. what is still up in the air at this point is not this overall umbrella of abuse of power but the obstruction argument. the individuals who i spoke with, chris, believe that they have a very powerful case on obstruction and intent to obstruct with that october 8th letter that came from white house counsel and when she said that the white house would not be complying with any of the ukraine investigation. however, there are other stakeholders in this process, chris. there are a lot of committees that have been working for a long time on their oversight and investigations ....
They can t get access to witness and can t get documents. you re familiar with trying to make a convincing case. how do democrats, they are seeing a shift in the polls here but it may not be enough at this point. how do democrats make their case to the american people in light of these obstacles which may not be this obstruction argument as compelling as other arts? first they should turn over every rock and follow the leads where they find them. they ll have more luck given the status of this administration. they ll have more luck talking to the people not within the government. they ll have an easier time compelling people who never worked in the government or have inside knowledge because people told them things. second with things they are not getting from the administration, they have already made it clear and there is precedent, that to the extent they are not being cooperated with, to the extent they are not getting information they are asking for they will ....
Fast they made that decision and how they did it. as we know, the attorney general did not receive the mueller report until friday afternoon. so he was able to take all of the evidence that robert mueller laid out on both sides of the obstruction argument for charging for obstruction and not. these difficult issues he talks about in this letter. and they were able to decide less than 48 hours later that there was no obstruction. and, of course, this now makes sense why reporters have been told over and over again this weekend that rod rosenstein was in the room. because i don t think that the attorney general wanted to have this decision squarely upon his shoulders. he does give us some insight, however, into how he made this decision. one thing he considered, he said they considered the intent with respect to obstruction, and they decided that there was not intent, because there was no underlying crime related to russian election interference. that s something we ve talked about a lot ....