now we get to find out why jody hunt is there. why the boss is there, why jeff sessions' old chief of staff has also inserted himself into this case. mr. hunt, your honor, this is joseph hunt, assistant attorney general for the civil division. we at the department of justice have been instructed to examine whether there is a path forward, consistent with the supreme court decision, that would allow us to include the citizenship question on the census. we think there may be a legally available path under the decision. we are looking at near term options to see whether that is viable and possible. viable and possible. both kinds. we have been instructed to. presumably from the president's twitter feed. we have been instructed to not do what we told the court what we would do yesterday and we have no idea what that means we should do, but here i am telling you what donald trump's twitter feed told me to do, regardless of what it means and regardless of what it means for the justice department. regardless of what it means for the lawye

now we get to find out why jody hunt is there. why jeff sessions's old chief of staff has also inserted himself into this case. mr. hunt, your honor, this is joseph hunt, assistant attorney general. we have been instructed to examine whether there is a path forward consistent with the supreme court's decision that would allow us to include the citizenship question. we think there may be a legally available path under the decision. we are looking at near term options to see whether that is viable and possible. viable and possible. both kinds. we have been instructed to. presumably from the president's twitter feed. we have been instructed to not do what we told the court what we would do yesterday and we have no idea what that means we should do, but here i am telling you what donald trump's twitter feed told me to do regardless of what it means for the justice department. regardless of what it means for the lawyers, including the career lawyers whose reputations in federal court depend in part on whether or not the court can believ

jody hunt has been subpoenaed, as well. as has rob porter, who was gently nudged out of the trump white house after serious domestic violence allegations from both of his ex-wives put a little flesh on the bones of the story as to why he couldn't get a security clearance despite the fact that you really kind of need one if you're going to be staff secretary to president of the united states. so, all in all, a nice bunch subpoenaed today by the judiciary committee. a nice bunch whose subpoenas have been authorized by the judiciary committee. they've been sort of plodding along in this very deliberate process of requesting testimony and then demanding it and then still not getting it and then demanding it some more and then ultimately making noises about how some day they'll win all of this in court. these new subpoenas are part of that slow roll from the judiciary committee, but they also represent an interesting escalation in terms of who they're targeting and how close those targets are to the president. judiciary chairman

jody hunt and rod porter who was gently nudged out of the trump white house after domestic white house allegations from both of his ex-wives put flesh on the boness to why he couldn't get a security clearance despite the fact that you need one if you are staff secretary to president of the united states. a nice bunch subpoenaed today by the judiciary committee. a nice bunch whose subpoenas have been authorized by the committee. the judiciary has been clodding along in this deliberate process of requesting testimony and demanding it and still not getting it and demanding it some more and making noises about how some day they will win it all in court. these new copy subpoenas are part of that slow roll, but they represent an interesting escalation in terms of who they are targeting and how close the targets are to the president. judiciary chairman jerry nadler is now authorized to send the subpoenas to each of the 12 guys. we will see when he does it and whether we really are going to see the guys in an open televised hearing have to answer questions. the other subpoenas that he was auth

and then to be able to deal with the litany of individuals from flynn, to jody hunt, mr. kelly, korda, rosenstein. mr. sessions, mr. davidson. and mr. howard. dylan howard and . to be able to continue the oversight that is the responsibility of this committee. because the american people are asking to be informed in a way that they can understand, the enormity of what has occurred in his administration. we may soon hear an announcement about the census. incomplete contrary, to the supreme court decision. this administration will stand up to the supreme court and tell them that they are not worthy of their name and begin to issue executive orders on the question of citizenship. on a census. so i do not have any doubt that this subpoena is for nonpolitical purposes, it is for purposes of information. and it certainly is for purpose of dealing with the important question of the responsibility of this judiciary committee, and finally i would argue the point that offers of pardons and questions regarding homeland security officials, are important, inasmuch as mr. chairman they