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The Very White House is still fighting on all fronts however. Judiciary Chairman Jerold Nadler (D-NY) authorized a lawsuit on Wednesday to enforce the subpoena issued to former White House counsel Don McGahn for his testimony. Committee lawyers called McGahn's testimony "critical", and that he is the "most important fact witness" to Il Douche's obstruction of justice detailed by Robert Mueller in his report. One committee lawyer compared McGahn to John Dean, former White House Counsel under Richard Nixon. One big difference: Dean complied with the Judiciary Committee's demands for his testimony that implicated the president and the attorney general. (He was granted use immunity.) McGahn has refused to comply saying through his attorney that he is obeying his former employer's order not to divulge any communications on the grounds of "absolute immunity". Committee counsel say the Very White House has made up this concept and that no such immunity exists under law. The committee has already obtained documents subpoenaed from McGahn, but his testimony is what they want to provide favorable optics for continuing their investigation of grounds for impeaching Il Douche. Mr. Nadler told a CNN interviewer that, “We are investigating all the evidence, we're gathering the evidence. And we will at the conclusion of this — hopefully by the end of the year — vote to vote articles of impeachment to the House floor. Or we won’t. That’s a decision that we’ll have to make. But that’s exactly the process we’re in right now.” A Nancy Pelosi spokeswoman also said there’s no daylight between the Speaker and the committee leaders when it comes to executive oversight. Really? US Person can only hope.
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