the white house says mulvaney won t cooperate and if he doesn t, he won t be alone. former national security adviser john bolton was supposed to be deposed today but didn t show up. that doesn t mean he s refusing out right. the washington post reporting bolton doesn t want to comply with the democratic inquiry without a court ruling on the on going constitutional dispute between the trump administration and congress. here to talk about it, barrett burger, former assistant u.s. attorney with the eastern district of new york and southern district of new york. good to see you again. among the people that are invited to come or don t come, the john bolton thing seems to be a category to itself. what is the argument they are trying to make or waiting for from the courts? so it seems they set up this sort of strange condition, right? they said we re willing to come in if you give us the subpoena but we want to let it play out in the courts first. we want to see what the courts