a federal judge has ruled former white house counsel don mcghan must comply with a house subpoena andestify before congress. the judge rejected white house claims of absolute immunity to block witnesses like mcghan as baseless. laura podesta's here in new york. how could the latest ruling impact the house impeachment investigation. >> reporter: good morning. this involves enforcing mcghan's subpoena for the obstruction of justice investigation. but could it impact the impeachment investigation because house democrats hope that some trump administration members including former national security adviser john bolton may use the ruling to justify cooperating with the inquiry. a federal judge has ordered former white house counsel don mcghan to testify before congress. the 120-page ruling says a president's aides cannot ignore or defy congressional subpoenas even by order of the president or otherwise. the judge added "the primary takeaway from the past 250 years of recorded american history is that presidents are not kings." the trump administration plans to appeal the decision claiming

that ruling that don mcghan needs to appear before the house committee.does the doj raise in terms of its opposing this for don mcghan. >> the justice department attorneys are arguing the president should be allowed have aids that are not splashed over to congress. he ought to be able to get advice from counsel and senior aids. this is a long-running thing, right? presidents and congress have had arguments about secrets and what has to be kept secret and what can be disclosed. that's been a point of conception. and yet we don't have a lot of guidance, we don't have a lot of case law about how those things are supposed to work. so this case, if it goes to the supreme court in time for it to be relevant could answer a lot of questions about the gray area in the separation of powers. eric: what does congress say? that they have the purview in that they have the legal right to do that? >> both sides are arguing they have the purview. there is a similar case dating back to the bush administration. it was his white house counsel, harriet meyerss, that was a cas

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: a federal judge inashington this evening ordered president trump's former white house counsel don mcghant obey a subpoena and appear before lawmakers. he had been called to testify about the mueller report. the ruling has implications for trump aides who refused to testify at impeachment hearings. separately, the chai the u.s. house intelligence committee, democrat adam schiff, now his panel will have a report schiff said toe report "conclusively shows" that the president tried to force ukraine to aid his re-election campaign. the president today defended hid handling of thrd gallagher case. the navy seal was acquitted of murdering an islamic state militant, but convicted of posing with the body. last week the president rejected forcing gallagher out of the seals. instead he'll retire from the navy. today, meeting with bulgaria's he is sticking up for gallagher and those like him. >> he was a greafighter. he was one of the ultimate fighters. tough guy. these are not weak people. these are tough people. and we're going to protect our war fighters and i've been given a lot of thank you's.

in response to the house judiciary lawsuits subpoena the president's former white house lawyer don mcghanhe can testify but he may invoke executive privilege. the justice department to appeal the decision. the defense chief firing the navy secretary, marks percent says he dismissed navy secretary richard spencer because he violated the chain of command. president trump ordered the navy to halt its review of eddie gallagher's actions in 2017 as he posed next to a dead isis fighter. the instead spencer went behind is per's back and -- is per rsh's back that would have cut a deal with the white house that would have let the process go on and on. spencer is fired and the violation of the chain of command is complete. president trump gained support from a voting bloc that has the dimms worried. stay with us. we'll be right back. lou: a record-setting day again on wall street. the 13th record so far this year. the s & p's 24th record close. volume on the big board 3.5 billion shares. crude oil you have, gold lost half a percent as did silver. much of the activity in the market driven by big mer

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district court judge will decide if don mcghan must testify before congress about possible obstructione house judiciary committee subpoenaed mcgahn in april before. a ruling today ordering mcgahn to testify could encourage other resistant witnesses from the administration to decide they should testify. and republican senator john kennedy of louisiana raising lot of eye blows with his answer to this question from chris wallace. >> senator kennedy, who do you believe was responsible for hacking the dnc and clinton campai campaign computers, their e-mails, was it russia or ukraine? >> i don't know. nor do you. nor do any of us. >> actually, we do know, senator, kennedy, right there despite overwhelming evidence trying to cast doubt on testimony from all of the experts at last week's impeachment hearings from the intelligence findings made earlier this year. listen. >> is it the consensus of the entire intelligent committee that the russians interfered in the u.s. elections in 2015. >> some of you on this committee appear to believe that russia and its security services did not conduct a c