Hearing up ahead.— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) October 23, 2019
Let's boogie.
The Trump attorney making the arguments is William Consovoy.
Chin: Your position, as you said moments ago, is that the immunity is absolute.
Consovoy agrees.
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Chin continues that if the president commits a crime, "no matter how heinous," even if it occurred before his term in office, no prosecutor could even investigate it?
Consovoy again answers in the affirmative.
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Chin points out that the opening-of-the-floodgates were made in Clinton v. Jones, and that has not come to pass.
Consovoy: "History will judge" whether those making those warnings were "correct on that."
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Consovoy calls DA Vance's subpoena a "photocopy" of congressional subpoenas, and he claims Trump didn't intervene in the SDNY investigation because that one was handled "appropriately."
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ADA Carey Dunne up now for Vance.
"The appellant's counsel told us bluntly that he would never, ever agree to release [Trump's] tax returns."
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Katzmann addresses Trump's claim that the "subpoena copies the congressional subpoenas which relate to the Washington, D.C. hotel."
Dunne: The simple reason for relying on the text form the congressional subpoena... to make it easier on the accounting firm to obtain same [docs]
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Katzmann also pressed about DA's interest in Trump's DC hotel.
Dunne says that though Manhattan DA is based in NY, transactions at issue had "tentacles" elsewhere.
Replying to
Katzmann: Does your office commit to preserving the confidentiality of the [responsive documents]?
Dunne: "Yes, we do," and they would be bound by law not to share with Congress, for example.
He adds: "There is no privilege for tax returns."
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