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Counting on now. they knew this could be coming. >> kaitlan collins, thanks very much. joining me to discuss, shan wu, defense attorney and former federal prosecutor and ron brownstein, senior editor for the atlantic and cnn political analyst. a lot of cases to go through here. lets go on the mcgahn case. this is key. doj is going to appeal. not clear yet, i believe, whether theyre going to ask for a stay, but probable theyll ask for a stay here. what is likely to happen next? >> thats exactly r...

Waiver just as theyre careful to recognize a blanket assertion. and the trump administration is treating executive privilege like the new black. they are just asserting it every possible opportunity. >> and basically challenging -- this to be challenged in court, right which democrats will likely do if they get satisfaction here. how long does that process play out? >> it could play out for a long time. the courts may expedite it a little bit. there are instances where it can drag out for quite ...

Right? >> well, a little bit of both. so it is certainly true that presidents of both parties have for a long time asserted that their closest aides are immune from testimony before congress. and that is a long-standing bipartisan position of the executive branch that the courts have never accepted and that congress has never accepted. so whether its right or wrong, it is one with a bit of a bipartisan pedigree, historically. what is new to the trump administration is the blanket assertion of th...

Now, if hope hicks has incriminating information to offer about the president, that could be viewed as obstruction of justice by the president. >> greg, can the president instruct hope hicks, a private citizen? shes not his personal lawyer, and while he has not asserted executive privilege yet, if he does that, is it game over and were getting nothing? >> that could be the practical effect in the near term, but legally its hard to imagine how that sort of blanket assertion of executive privilege...

Information, he would show up anyway. >> thats probably right. >> what would nixon have been able to do? >> its not clear he would have been able to do anything. there is a difference. began got that memo. he literally got the memo. he is torn. >> from the office of legal counsel. under the control of william barr. doesnt that tell you something? >> hold on. there is an important point here. i dont want to be an a poll gist. in the 15-page letter, t partie many administrations serving a similar ...

This committee. we still had 99% of her records. and on friday we learned that president trump is claiming executive privilege over an additional 102,000 pajsz of your records. such a blanket assertion of executive privilege is simply unheard of in the history of this country and the reason its unheard of is because its so outrageous. the last time a president tempted to hide his supreme court nominees records by invoking executive privilege was when president reagan did this for justice william...

Th not by this committee. and sixth, on friday we learn that president trump is claiming executive privilege over an additional 102,000 pages of your records. such a blanket assertion is simply unheard of in the history of this country and the reason its unheard of is because it is so outrageous. the last time a president attempted to hide a supreme court nominees record by invoking executive privilege was when president reagan did this for justice william rehnquist. then republicans and democra...

Answer about what jared kushner did or this answer here in the run- run-up, at that point does this then -- does it make it that much harder for the presidents team to fight this subpoena? >> it makes it harder, but in these situations, in these executive privilege claims and counterclaims, there are no blanket assertions. the president cant make a blanket assertion, and mueller cant say -- cant make a blanket assertion and say we demand -- we need all of this just because were running a crimina...

Much too vocally, taking a position on things that he cant possibly have clear knowledge of at this stage of the representation. any lawyer cosming into a case like this would keep his head down for a period of time and make sure he had the facts in line. and this attorney is not doing that. so id have to say no, he is not helping his client at all. >> and laura, as for the russia investigation, a big question in all of this is will the president take the fifth amendment? here is rudy giuliani o...

The abuse took place during a sexual encounter. schneiderman apparently slapped someone during an argument. >> its very odd that he would parse it out this t way he did, that he had never engaged in nonconsensual sex. thats the line he would not cross. but apparently assault is not one in which he would vehemently deny the allegation. he would simply say he vehemently contests the allegations. maybe he has his eyes towards a defamation case or perhaps other things about calling somebody a liar o...