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The Supreme Court was seemingly set to decide whether and when a party can assert attorney-client privilege protection over communications containing both legal and non-legal advice,...

>> dana: you might mention ukraine and china and iran. in the first batch of documents found at the penn biden center some had top secret markings but some were foreign intelligence documents of some sorts that had the three countries as topics or issues in them. i want to get to this. fox news contributor and constitutional law attorney jonathan turley said biden used his lawyers to find the documents not the f.b.i. the president has a host of people who regularly handle classified materials. w...

Classified document was identified, the classified material was left in place as found. what do you make of this statement? what is the take-away here? >> theyre describing a process they had established. the presidents personal attorneys were doing these searches, in part, because they want to protect attorney/client privilege. but the minute they came across a document that they had no security clearance to review, they immediately stopped, and then they brought in someone else and were able t...

I have to say that when you do have these shifting disclosures, it does raise questions in the minds of investigators, is there something more that youre not telling us. thats where the problem goes from just being a political problem to possibly a legal problem as well. >> very, very quickly. its also stuck out to me that his attorneys were doing the search, but they dont have security clearances. >> it appears theyre trying to protect their client. its attorney/client privilege, is the reason ...

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News about the white house counsel, given your own past, the pat cipollone and pit rick philbin will have to testify to the d.c. grand jury. they are rejected the former presidents wide claim of executive privilege and attorney/client privilege. they were in the room at the key moments, how significant could they testimony be. >> it could be very significant. they have a lot of knowledge. they have been before the grand jury before. the grand jury that they are returning to. they invoked some so...

Claiming attorney/client privilege, executive privilege. so we were looking for a fight for justice to force them to answer. however this ends up, it has implications for other people in the white house, very high ranking, very close to trump who have also been subpoenaed. >> two top vice president advisers were compelled to testify in the last few weeks? >> reporter: that was the precursor fight to this. a similar fight where donald trump was trying to block these final answers from being given...

Used for years now. explain that further. >> reporter: right, exactly. look. this is a fight thats been going on behind closed doors, secret proceedings, before a federal court judge here in washington, and its really consequential because the two witnesses were talking about, pat cipollone who was the former white house counsel, his deputy patrick philbin, again, they were major witnesses and they were pushing back against these vote fraud claims by the former president, and they appeared befor...

>> thats the georgia investigation, federal investigators are also triing to get testimony. sources telling cnn the justice department is asking a federal judge to force pat cipollone and patrick philbin, the deputy white house counsel, along with the white house counsel during trumps time in office to testify as part of its january 6th probe and prosecutors want answers about their conversations and interactions with trump. michael, trump has been trying to block former advisers from testifying...

They were white house counsel and so thats public information that and a public client that im not sure that theyre going to allow -- that the judge would allow their testimony to be shielded by the attorney/client privilege in this case. i think there may be times that they could testify about what they saw, what they heard, you know, other statements made surrounding certain events involving the election and certainly the insurrection on january 6th. there may be times when they pause and say,...