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Compelled to testify at trial if needed since hell have no fifth amendment privilege, no reason he would incriminate himself if he testified after he is sentenced tomorrow. hes available as a witness. whether we learn anything new at sentencing i think is unlikely with this caveat, if there is any sort of quibbling about what his conduct was and what kind of sentence he should get, then we may hear some details from andrew weisman on muellers team who is handling the sentencing. we may get a lit...

Of an actual robust legal team here is sort of a profound gamble being made by the white house. with joe digenova saying hes advising him via television but not actually the spirit of the law, is there any attorney/client privilege there? are you risking more by not being a formal lawyer to the president? >> counselor, your name has been invoked, you can rebut. >> they already have a conflict of interesting because his wife, victoria, represents mark corrala, who resigned because he was afraid h...

Investigation. its van der zwann. we know he doesnt have a cooperation agreement with mueller. everything has to be on writing in the guilty play plae. gaty pleas maintain this routine language that say im not relying on anything other than what is in this document. we do know he has turned over some key pieces of evidence to mueller. hes turned over tapes of conversation, hes turned over e-mails. weve heard that muellers team did not have that before. his value is that even without cooperation,...

Gamble being made by the white house. with joe digenova saying hes advising him via television but not actually the spirit of the law, is there any attorney/client privilege there? are you risking more by not being a formal lawyer to the president? >> counselor, your name has been invoked, you can rebut. >> they already have a conflict of interesting because his wife, victoria, represents mark corrala, who resigned because he was afraid he would be led into some sort of obstruction. and theres a...

Team, and the purpose of that was to insulate anybody in the white house, everything through this outside legal team so that people like bob mueller couldnt subpoena -- couldnt call them and ask them to testify because it would all be covered by lawyer/client privilege. in fact, though, as they are putting together the statement, mark kasowitz, the presidents lawyer at the time, wasnt even consulted. didnt even know about this statement till after it had gone to "the new york times." of course t...

Or claiming the possibility of some privilege down the line. does it work the same way when youre talking to an investigation by the executive branch technically, the special counsels office, how would that work behind closed doors, susan? >> right, so technically executive privilege is only available for the executive branch to assert against the legislative branch, the judicial branches, in this kind of interview jeff sessions might be able to assert some sort of presidential communications pr...

And former aides to the white house are going to continue to assert these really farfetched claims. in this case, it was executive privilege. we saw months ago donald trump jr. came up and asserted a farfetched claim of attorney/client privilege. i think what were about to find out is whether theres any political will in the house committee to try and enforce their right to receive answers from these witnesses. i think were going to find out when hope hicks goes out and testifies, shes willing t...

Incriminate themselves. typically if youre a white house staffer, that is a sign you need to leave government service. if theyre not taking the fifth amendment and they come up and assert a privilege, what the committees can do is vote to hold them in contempt, vote to force their subpoena and go to court to do it. if the committee is going to do that, it shouldnt just do it against witnesses it doesnt like. look, steve bannon is on outs with republicans. obviously -- >> to say the least. >> yes...

Hit with a subpoena from the mueller office. the subpoena that was first reported yesterday, a subpoena to bannon that he must come in and testify before a grand jury. bannon was treated very differently by robert mueller than everybody else in the trump campaign. bannon was also treated very differently by congress. just in that house intelligence committee. attorney general jeff sessions was interviewed behind closed doors and said he wanted to not answer their questions on the basis that the ...

And testify before a grand jury. bannon was treated very differently by robert mueller than everybody else in the trump campaign. bannon was also treated very differently by congress. just in that house intelligence committee. attorney general jeff sessions was interviewed behind closed doors and said he wanted to not answer their questions on the basis that the president may someday want to assert executive privilege to stop him from giving that testimony in the future hypothetically. that was ...