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Away, the police officer lag ri and weaker. if its people mueller interviewed that were not in conversation with the president and an attempt to exert executive privilege there would be weak. if its regarding people testifying about conversations they had with the president, well presumably there might be an executive privilege claim to be made there and if they assert it and congress wants to challenge it, then it goes to court and it becomes a bit of a mirky court battle. there arent any reall...

Simple. easy. awesome. i also believe its very important -- apparent stirrings on capitol hill this hour expecting to see the vsummary mueller rep soon. were there. and the president is out of sight and mostly keeping quiet. why so silent on an investigation hes repeatedly call add witch-hunt. plus -- >> we need to see all the evidence and shouldnt have to waste our time and the publics time and money re-creating the same information. lawmakers preparing for anything. what comes next if ...

In his report to barr, which hes required to do under the special counsel regulations which is an explanation of people he prosecuted and people he didnt prosecute. normally speaking, the justice department doesnt say we investigated this person and decided not bring charges. so how much of that detail theyll go into we just dont know. we just dont know what this "thing" is that will be sent to congress this afternoon. or relatively confident that when congress gets it well get it, too, but to a...

Expectation like a bullet point summery. is it expected that the white house counsels office could get a sneak peak of the mueller report so then it could possibly invoke executive privilege as it sees fit? meaning of course, the president would also get an early look because it is presumed that within the mueller report, there might be evidence of conversations that the president would have and something that he might deem to be worthy of executive privilege? >> yeah, i suppose that could happe...

To get an advanced look, if the president does not claim executive privilege, should the white house be allowed to review the report to determine if there are any legitimate reasons to with hold any kind of information? >> no, i think it would be completely inappropriate. the president and his administration were targets or subjects of this investigation. a number of his people in his inner circle have been accused of and convicted of crimes. the idea you would let the subject or target of an in...

Nothing back. new this hour, a potential battle brewing over executive privilege as the attorney general is expected to release the top findings from that mueller report any moment now. the chair of the judiciary committee where impeachment proceedings start warning the white house not to try to prevent parts of the mueller report from being released. >> i do not believe it exists here at all because as we learned from the nixon tapes case, executive privilege cannot hide or be used to hide wron...

Privilege as the attorney general is expected to rerees the finding from the mueller report any time now. impeachment ro menment processe congress and warning about releasing this. >> i dont do not believe it existing here as all because as we learned from the nixon tape case executive privilege cannot be used to hide wrongdoing. in that case the supreme court 9-0 ordered that all of the claims of executive privilege be overridden. the president may try to assert it, hide things behind it but i ...

Comes to the firing of james comey but they again, insist that the president did not obstruct justice, had the article 2 power in order to fire someone like the fbi director. were waiting for that to play out. the presidents personal lawyers do not expect any sneak peak and remember, some of the lawyers with the president this weekend, his white house counsel and his white house special counsel who are those on the front lines of interfacing with the investigation, they represent the office of t...

Get a sneak peek meaning the president will get an early look? >> i just dont know. your question, is it possible? its possible. were in uncharted waters here. normally speaking we dont have these special counsel investigations. we dont have the justice department investigating the president. there is -- if the president, if the white house counsel, says to barr, look, if theres anything about the presidents discussion, we want to see it to see if we can assert executive privilege, that may be a...

Executive privilege on some of this and the fact is, he has no right to claim executive privilege on any evidence of wrongdoing, executive privilege cannot shield evidence of wrongdoing. >> new concerns from ju didicia chair nadler as questions emerge whether the president, his team or attorney general barr will work to bury criminality in muellers row poeport. joining me now we have melissa murray with us and former federal prosecutor and legal analyst glen kurshner. lawyers at the white house ...