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Plea? >> yeah. typically, thats another kind of contract. these are all unique. typically a joint defense agreement basically means a whole bunch of attorneys representing a bunch of clients in the same investigative probe has the protection of attorney/client privilege so they can speak freely. they want to say whats the investigator saying to your guy? if you find that your clients interests have become adverse to the rest of the team, normally you have to withdraw from the joint defense agree...

Show me decorating shows. this is staying connected with xfinity to make moving... simple. easy. awesome. stay connected while you move with the best wifi experience and two-hour appointment windows. click, call or visit a store today. welcome back. there is yet another book that president trump is contending with. this one involving his former divorce lawyer jay goldberg who represented trump in cases involving his two exwo-wiveex-w. the president says the book would violate attorney/client p...

Presented with a situation in which somebody has decided that there are 100,000 documents protected by executive privilege. yet there has not been an assertion of executive privilege before the committee. how are we to determine whether executive privilege has been properly asserted if this hearing goes by without the committee ever considering that question? why is it not in regular order for us to determine before the hearing at which the documents would be necessary whether or not the asserti...

Learned 102,000 pages of document from judge kavanaughs work in the white house counsels office are being withheld from the committee and public based on a claim of executive privilege. thats never been invoked to block the release of presidential records to the senate during a supreme court nomination. this includes when justice kagan was nominated to the supreme court as well as justice roberts. yesterday my colleagues and i sent a letter to the white house counsel asking that the president wi...

The process and why i think youll see him do well today. he knows about that. his time in the white house counsels office is the one that president trump has decided to assert privilege. keep in mind he is following the precedent as set by president obama when he put forward an executive order all about documents in an administration and how they should be handled. i know democrats might be frustrated but president trump is following the precedent set by president obama. >> bret: you had dianne ...

Communication to anyone. for example, we didnt ask that judge kagans records for her service with then senator biden be turned over during her nomination. and because of attorney/client privilege, everybody has a right to keep communications from their lawyers out of government hands. we therefore didnt ask for justice ginsbergs documents from her time with the aclu. we didnt ask for judge sotomayors confidential documents from her time in private practice. it cant be that the senate and the acl...

Communications to anyone. for example, we didnt ask judge kagans records for her service with then senator biden be turned over during her nomination. because of attorney/client privilege, everybody has a right to keep communications from their lawyers, out of governors hands. we, therefore, didnt ask for justice ginsburgs documents from her time with the aclu. we didnt ask for judge so the sotomayors from her time in private practice. it cant be that the aclu is afforded more protection than th...

Deliberations, candid advice concerning the selection and nomination of judicial candidates. so is this out of the ordinary to withhold or want to withhold that kind of information? >> yes, this is more than usual. let me just clarify a couple things here. what the white house and the george w. bush administration are saying is that they should be protected because they were part of deliberations, because they were part of -- theyre characterizing them very broadly, citing attorney/client privil...

Lawyers represented trump. they may have represented the organization, some other entity, but at their core they represented the man donald trump and took orders from him. don mcgahn is different. he represents you and i. he represents the presidency, the people of the united states. that duty of loyalty may be different than what donald trump has expected and commanded from his personal lawyers. >> we talked about it in the past, that he cant claim attorney/client privilege in this case. betsy ...

He must think there is possible criminal acttist that has occurred that he needs to give his version of. again, its hard to say that it would have been completely exculpatory. but then, you know, second, just this whole kind of dance between representing the office of the president and donald j. trump. by the way, i think this representation by the president that he just let him go forward is wrong. he probably won wouldnt have had a choice under executive privilege or attorney/client privilege....