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President biden has waived that. of course, thats something that mark meadows, the chief of staff, is also fighting in court. its not a decided question on whether or not executive privilege applies here, at least from a court perspective. but then of course theres the sing lar lawyer perspective of attorney/client privilege that also has to be explored here. and were told from our sources thats the stuff that cipollones team is working through now. the other thing, though, really fast, is he is...

Has more courage than any of these older more experienced maga leaders like pat cipollone, like mark meadows who is hiding from subpoenas and who wanted a pardon from his actions. now, cipollone is really important, but he may try to avoid a subpoena, may try to claim attorney/client privilege but ultimately there is a crime fraud exception. you cant use attorney/client privilege to hide a crime and as pat cipollone said to others there are a lot of climbing going on here. >> jonathan, to you, c...

>> as a practical matter, it is his decision. he is not a private lawyer, so there is not attorney/client privilege the way there is for a private lawyer. executive privilege can be gotten around. but what i mean by as a practical matter is theres no time to litigate this. even if the committee wanted to subpoena him and then force him to testify, the clock would run out. so, this is really entirely up to cipollone. and it sounds like hes just not going to do it. >> carl, how realistic do you th...

Jeffrey, can cipollone refuse to testify? is it entirely his decision or is it -- he was white house counsel. can he just say there was executive privilege? >> as a practical matter, it is his decision. he is not a private lawyer, so there is not attorney/client privilege the way there is for a private lawyer. executive privilege can be gotten around. but what i mean by as a practical matter is, theres no time to litigate this. even if the committee wanted to subpoena him and then force him to t...

From the interview that time, his attorney said they were still negotiating with the committee about the parameters of this conversation. whats important here, don, even though they had giuliani under subpoena, they wanted to have a conversation with him that would elicit information. they wanted to make it clear they wouldnt ask questions that would fall in the areas of executive privilege or attorney/client privilege, but they wanted to ask him questions of the law they believed he would be ab...

President is in the region, but certainly another nuclear test would be very significant. and that would come under a lot of criticism around the world. jim. >> some a missile test by itself. sometimes they dont go where they are intended to go as well. risks on the ground. paula hancock and jeremy diamond, thanks so much. a late night court filing shows president trumps effort to overturn the 2020 election. john eastman helping the plat strategy for overturning the election. joining me is eva...

It was reaction congressman jim jordan and fox news contributor jason chaffetziore. jim , ill start with you now. durham wants jurors at this trial to know that clintons attorney michael sussman in twentyon sixteen they want about this intersection of his work against former president trump and that ofha the author of the debunked steel dossier and the judge rightly pointed out, well, this information was leaked to the press. you can hardly claim attorneypr client privilege privilege, which i th...

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One of the key figures behind former donald trumps legal efforts to overturn the 2020 election has agreed to turn over thousands of pages of documents to the house committee investigating the january 6 insurrection. john eastman had claimed that the material was confidential attorney/client communications but attorneys now say he will no longer keep the documents from the committee. cnn crime and justice reporter kaitlan palance is covering this for us. what more are you learning about the new d...

I mean, they agreed to do it. since the january six investigation started, we have seen one trump official after another say they cannot talk to the investigators, setting some variation of privilege, right? citing executive privilege or attorney client privilege. trump officials say they cannot talk to the investigators because they have worked in the white house, or because they were lawyers who worked on trumps legal team. now we have the white houses two top lawyers talking with investigator...