Bush Not Immune

"Now, here's what the Bush administration had claimed - Harriet Myers, Josh Bolton, we're working with the president, and since they were top advisers to the president, they have immunity for any conversation they had or might have had with him. So even if they're subpoenaed to Congress they can say 'Nah, I'm not really in the mood to show up."

"This is a different thing that they were claiming. It's called 'Absolute Immunity'. It's called Absolute Immunity by the Bush administration who just made it up out of thin air. Right? And the judge rules that it, here's the funny part, it doesn't exist. His name is, by the way, US District Judge John Bates. And you know who he was appointed by? Of course, oh not a Liberal or a Democrat, appointed by George W Bush..."