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Nature of the relationship that donald trump has with rudy giuliani. you brought up the issue of potential attorney/client privilege. but my question to you is we dont know much about the relationship. so, to what extent does attorney/client privilege when you have somebody who does not -- your lawyer does not represent you in any legal proceedings. i dont believe rudy giuliani has appeared in any court on behalf of the president so far. we dont believe from any of our reporting he has been paid...

Conference. it puts republicans, i think, in a mind. so, i would think are the a democratic perspective it would be tactically useful. >> let me play devils advocate for a second. the argument goes if you bring rudy giuliani hes going to also want to then have to discuss or want to discuss hunter biden, bre burisma and try to make that center stage. thats what hes out there investigating, the various conspiracy theories out there. do you open a bit of a pandoras box, by bringing in rudy giuliani...

>> honestly, youd have to ask adam schiff. bear in mind, we dont know this because this information was leaked to the press. it is in his 300 page report, okay. paul: right. >> and so he dumped it. it is really -- well, kim has been saying its unprecedented. it is now a precedent. if adam schiff can do this, this means the chairman of the house intelligence committee or perhaps other committees can subpoena from telephone companies anyones records for any i reason if they can suggest theres a le...

>> honestly, youd have to ask adam schiff. bear in mind, we dont know this because this information was leaked to the press. it is in his 300 page report, okay. paul: right. >> and so he dumped it. it is really -- well, kim has been saying its unprecedented. it is now a precedent. if adam schiff can do this, this means the chairman of the house intelligence committee or perhaps other committees can subpoena from telephone companies anyones records for any i reason if they can suggest theres a le...

Essentially waving any kind of executive privilege or attorney/client privilege by testifying. so they may call some witnesses. if they do participate in this process, they may call some witnesses around the edges. but theyve got to think -- think down the line what it will mean if they actually start calling people with -- with firsthand knowledge of facts. that can be pretty hazardous for them. >> scott, you were talking about schiff and leadership during the intel committee hearings, right? w...

And his advisers have to know what the allegations are going to be before they can make a decision whether theyre going to send witnesses in to testify. so it is a matter of process at this point, but theres a lot that goes into figuring out whether theyre going to comply with that process or not, and what kinds of witnesses theyre going to call. the president has to be very careful. his team has to be very careful not to start putting on witnesses who will then be essentially waiving any kind o...

You have one thing going on with the individuals who are closest to the president and one set of activities. and then you have them pressing on the agencies to try to use the regular levers of government to explain what is otherwise in-explainable. >> let me switch gears and ask you about a decision that were expecting today from a federal court judge on whether don mcgahn can testify. if this judge rules that he can testify, what does that mean going forward for others who these committee membe...

Have an essential witness if the democrats want to go there. two, it blows a hole in the absolute immunity claim. judges are receptive to executive privilege or attorney general client privilege or fifth amendment assertions, right, there are certain reasons you can get away with not testifying, this absolute immunity, saying i dont even have to show up, judge jackson was really incredulous at the argument last month. i dont see her being receptive to this one bit and i think to your point, the ...

United states gives to ukraine, meaning the money that the united states gives to ukraine. he talked about meeting with president zellen ski possibly. so -- zelensky possibly. so all of these things are not things the president was unaware of. in terms of what we look for next week, certainly the optics and how it plays, how to two sides are able to make their cases. in truth, the testimony is already out there from these folks. most of this story has been told through that testimony. and the on...

To extort ukraine. it almost worked and giuliani was running point on it for the president. giuliani saying this yesterday. ive been thinking about what this means all day. i want to get both your feedback. the investigation i conducted concerning 2016 ukrainian collusion and corruption was done solely as a defense attorney to defend my client against false charges that kept changing one after another as they were disproffer. what does that mean and what does giulianis relationship to the presid...