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#WhompThereItIs the Dem Leadership need to be watching the A Block of @maddow tonight. Especially in light of Trump's remarks to WaPo about seeing no reason to do what Congress requires in these hearings. #TuesdayThoughts washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
2-"In an interview with The Washington Post, Trump said that complying with congressional requests was unnecessary after the White House cooperated with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe of Russian interference and the president’s own conduct in office.
3-"“There is no reason to go any further, and especially in Congress where it’s very partisan — obviously very partisan,” Trump said.Trump’s comments came as the White House made it clear that it plans to broadly defy requests for information from Capitol Hill, moving the two
4-"branches of government closer to a constitutional collision. On Tuesday, two White House officials said the administration plans to fight a subpoena issued by the House Judiciary Committee for former White House counsel Donald McGahn by asserting executive privilege over his
5-"testimony.Separately, the administration directed a former White House official not to comply with a subpoena from the House Oversight Committee, prompting the panel to move to hold him in contempt of Congress. And the Treasury Department defied a second demand from House
6-"Democrats to turn over six years of President Trump’s tax returns. Taken together, the moves mark a dramatic escalation of tensions between the president and congressional Democrats — deepening a fight that may ultimately be resolved only by a protracted court battle.
7-"..White House lawyers plan to tell attorneys for administration witnesses called by the House that they will be asserting executive privilege over their testimony, according to two officials familiar with internal plans who, like others interviewed for this story, spoke on the
8-"condition of anonymity. In his interview with The Post, Trump maintained that the White House Counsel’s Office has not “made a final, final decision” about whether it will formally assert executive privilege and try to block congressional testimony.
9-"But he said he opposes cooperation with House Democrats, who he claimed are trying to score political points against him. “I don’t want people testifying to a party, because that is what they’re doing if they do this,” Trump said.The president said Democrats should be
10-"satisfied with what McGahn and other officials told Mueller, calling his decision to allow them to meet with federal investigators an act of transparency that made further congressional cooperation unreasonable. “I allowed my lawyers and all the people to go and testify to
11-"Mueller — and you know how I feel about that whole group of people that did the Mueller report,” Trump said. “I was so transparent; they testified for so many hours. They have all of that information that’s been given.”
12-" “I fully understood that at the beginning. I had my choice,” Trump added of his decision to allow his aides to testify as part of Mueller’s probe. “I could have taken the absolute opposite route.” ~WaPo *What more truth is there that he's trying to prevent from coming out?
13-"Public testimony by McGahn could create a spectacle that would parallel the June 1973 testimony of President Richard Nixon’s former White House counsel, John Dean, whose live, televised appearance before a Senate committee painted a vivid portrait for the country of the White
14-"House coverup of the Watergate burglary.McGahn’s lawyer, William Burck, began discussions with the Judiciary Committee about his potential testimony after the panel issued a subpoena Monday, according to people familiar with the matter." #TuesdayThoughts
