amy donaldson, a key deputy councilmember in the white house. i want to give people an overview of what they are asking for. michael flynn, sean spicer, james comey, jeff sessions, paul manafort, michael cohen, seems like a pretty comprehensive list. what take to you think the president and the white house will have on these? >> i don't expect either of them will show up just as don mcgann didn't show up. i think bradley is right, congress has a right to conduct oversight hearings. what we didn't hear about was the president's right as far from the executive branch to claim executive privilege. this is not a partisan issue. this is something all presidents of raised going back as far as franklin roosevelt, the right of keeping their closest aides from being dragged before congress for two reasons, one is congress doesn't have the right to drag the president before it and asking questions so the closest aides don't have to either and second this is an issue the lower courts have agreed with, congress can't repeatedly harass the president by trying to drag their -- his aides, and so often the president is not able to do the nation's business, fulfill his constitutional responsibility so i exp