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good evening. im erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, there are tapes. cnn learning that some trump allies are urging him to publicly release surveillance footage of fbi agents searching his mar-a-lago home. we dont know what is on the tapes or not on the tapes. the footage has been held so close to the vest that a source close to the president tells cnn theyre not sure if trump himself has even seen the whole thing. now, trumps son, eric, has been happy to talk about it, saying theyre re...

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Of the phone. and just for our viewers, i wouldnt expect to hear anything soon on that. because there probably is going to be a clean team. that is, a separate team of lawyers and agents who need to look at this because of attorney/client privilege issues. people remember that happened when there was a serve of michael cohens phone. so that is a very long process to do that kind of scrubbing to make sure youre acomplying with the attorney/client privilege. its a follow-on to that june 22nd searc...

Committee got what they wanted, which was a trove of documents laying out the schemes to try to overturn the election. and there were some documents that he withheld, citing executive privilege. so thereby may be something where rudy giuliani could testify, could provide some documents, but withhold others. those are all parts of the negotiations that are going on right now. >> luke, what is a committee or what could the committee learn from giuliani? and clearly, there must be some attorney/cli...

Noted this is unprecedented and looks like an abuse of government surveillance authority for partisan gain. joining me now is former cia analyst and former deputy assistant to president trump. you have seen this before? >> h i have bad news. i understand adam schiff knows all about your late night crank calls to sean hannity. im really not joking too much about this because we know how contra figures fuel and how much trouble nsa got for using them. there is real restrictions on the and adam sch...

Ongoing impeachment proceedings? >> well, i would say if this was a football game, you know, this ruling is sort of a 30-yard line ruling. its not a 100-yard line. its not a touchdown. it doesnt come to the end of anything. and thats because the question before the court is whether or not the white house is assert absolute immunity. whether or not they can say blanketly to a non white house employee you cant even go. and thats a pretty broad statement. so even if they agree with the democrats th...

To put some restrictions or some system to have the materials reviewed and have judicial determinations made about privilege issue rather than let the fbi look at everything. of course theres a separate team thats supposed to be separate from the team going through these documents. but most of those in michael cohens position are not only extremely worried, but they dont trust the idea that a taint team is going to make an accurate determination about attorney/client privilege issues. >> michael...

Transcribed interview. investigators want to know more about his presence at the 2016 meeting where he was promised russian dirt on the clinton campaign. the interview will be conducted by committee staff behind closed doors with senators invited to attend. officials have said the interview would happen as soon as september. meantime special counsel robert mueller has issued subpoenas to two associates of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort his former lawyer and current spokesperson. ...