The Senate Judiciary Committee is coming apart at the seams.

[Texin]

1. My take is that he is obsfucating rather than lying outright, but the Rethugs are okay with that.

He's definitely one of the most documented proponents of Executive Privilege as an "out" for every wrongdoing or outright unlawful act that a POTUS could possibly engage in (well, except for a Dem!). There documents with opinions and texts and memos that would demonstrate his callow support of cram-down Executive Privilege, as well as bulldog actual witch hunt bear-bating during Clinton's term that prove it. He's on the record making racist pronouncements acting as a foil for the Civil Rights Act. What's happening on that committee sham of an interrogation before them is nothing less of a coronation. It's meaningless. The rethugs are cramming this down come hell or high water. There's nothing that can be done about it save for an Act of God or a stray bullet. He will be installed and he will not recuse himself on matters involving the Special Prosecutor.

He's being put on that bench to render the single most important decision ever rendered insofar as a rethuglican is considered: to ensure a majority ruling to scuttle the Special Prosecutor (now and forever more) and to let them rule as a monarchy with the ever increasingly deranged tRump as the King of America, with the US Congress his lackeys and vassals.