Austin Evers and Mike Stern on Congressional Oversight
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President Trump has declared that he will fight \\u201call the subpoenas\\u201d coming from Congress and has claimed \\u201cabsolute immunity\\u201d for White House advisors. In doing so, he has brought the issue of congressional oversight of the executive branch to the front pages.
To talk about that very issue, Margaret Taylor sat down with Austin Evers, the executive director of American Oversight, a non-profit government accountability watchdog; and Michael Stern, who served for many years as the Senior Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives. Stern is the founder of the Point of Order blog, which covers legal issues affecting Congress. They talked about pending oversight litigation, the House of Representatives\\u2019 strategy, how the Trump administration is responding, and if any of this is normal.
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