The Trump administration pledges to Stonewall Congress.

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Protect your online privacy today at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. Okay, we've got a ton

to get to today. And I take off 25 hours, guys, just to do some atoning, just to get right with

God. And the world explodes because that's the way things work. Okay, so the latest,

an impeachment gate, 2019, over the past 25, 36 hours, basically the White House has now pledged

they're going to stonewall Congress. This is not a good strategy. It's not. Now, I know there are

a lot of folks on the right who are cheering this, a lot of folks on the conservative side who are saying,

this is exactly what the White House should be doing, given the political nature of this impeachment

inquiry. And there is truth to the fact that the White

House should be pushing back on some of these subpoenas, that the White House should be pushing back

on Congress's power to do some of the stuff that they are doing. However, to simply state that

they are going to, in blanket fashion, sort of stonewall Congress, is a mistake. The reason it's a

mistake is because it goes one of a couple of ways. One, all of this goes to the courts, and the courts actually rule against the Trump administration,

in which case they have to turn over all of this stuff anyway, and now there is impetus for

an impeachment move because of so-called obstruction, because the White House is attempting

to prevent information from being disseminated.

Obstruction was used as an impeachment grounds for both Clinton and Nixon. So that's possibility number one. Possibility number two, it goes to the courts and the court simply

declined to answer the question. They say this falls under what they call the political question

doctrine, meaning that when the branches are hashing things out between themselves, it is really

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