Is There a Legal Tool to Compel a Witness to Answer a Question?

Barbara Walters asks if there is a legal tool that can be used to compel a witness to answer a question when he i'm thinking mike flynn, she says, pleads the fifth. A judge would decide that on a question by question basis. If there is any realistic possibility that a statement could be incriminating, I think courts are very a have a very wide berth to witnesses who might be testifying to something that is incriminating. But prosecutors have a tool there as well, which is to grant use immunity and it's really hard to find a crime that they committed that doesn't implicate what they said.

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