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About how that response -- >> and its interesting, that meeting has now ended. the meeting that donald trump jr. has had with members of the house intelligence committee. that meeting is over and now adam schiff has emerged and said this about some deep concerns that he still have. >> he answered the overwhelming majority of our questions. there was one significant area, though, where he declined to answer. he acknowledged having discussed the june 9th meeting and the e-mails that went into esta...

Answer some sensitive, specific questions. >> look, when people are involved in investigations, they dont like to answer questions that might incriminate them or might make them look bad. so i think that adam schiff is right onpoint when he says that unhappy that some of these questions werent answered. and the question about whether or not donald trump jr. went beyond the scope of what people understand to be attorney/client privilege, i think is a good question. >> donald trump jr. did answer ...

Also involves fusion gps. a new judge, republican appointee is handling the case. fusion is the firm behind the anti-trump dossier and they want to block the release of their banking records to the house intelligence committee. these records may show how fusion gps works with law firms to shield their work from public scrutiny by citing attorney/client privilege. the judge indicated he wants full transparency in the case saying if there were ever a case where public access is in the best interes...

Many people will hire an intelligence firm through an attorney because i guess supposedly that has attorney/client privilege automatically. >> the theory is if the investigative material is submitted through an attorney as a passthrough, it cant be submitted in court because of privilege issues. whether that would actually hold up, i dont know. ill leave that to others to speculate. certainly i hope after this people take a hard look as to whether these kinds of activities should continue to be ...

Weinstein and hired this firm. many people will hire an intelligence firm through an attorney because i guess supposedly that has attorney/client privilege automatically. >> the theory is if the investigative material is >> the theory is, if its submitted through an attorney, it cant be submitted in court because of privilege issues. certainly, i hope after this, people take a hard look as to whether these kinds of activities should be able to be secret. >> so on the one hand, his firm is repres...

Jr. meeting, we wanted to make sure we saw everyone else that we could that was in that meeting first. weve just about done that. then well start bringing in more of the principals. >> obviously as weve known for a long time, the story isnt going away. rick, weve heard from the committees. what they want to do is have people stop talking about it. were going to get done what we need to have done without the outside influences. can this white house do that? how do they handle this? as more and mo...

Investigation. >> does the white house counsel enjoy attorney/client privilege with donald trump? can he be made to talk to robert mueller himself? >> no. youve got different circuit courts going different ways on this, but my understanding always was every lawyer for the united states has only one client and that client is the united states. so that the president is not the white house counsels client. the united states of america is his client. and thats true of all the lawyers in the governme...

The united states of america is his client. and thats true of all the lawyers in the government. so there may be other kind of privileges at the margin, but not attorney/client privilege. >> what does it say to you that you now have this reporting that bob muellers team is now interviewing white house staffers and that even mike pence might have already talked to bob mueller and been interviewed over the summer? does that tell you that this is heading toward some sort of outcome that could invol...

>> to russia now. you wrote about trump lawyers clashing over how much to clash with them. >> these are very national issues to balance in any white house facing this kind of investigation. on the one hand, ty cobb in charge of responding to the investigation. his theory is lets give them everything theyre asking for. lets give robert mueller the documents he wants and make this go away. then you have don mcghan. his job is to represent the institution. cooperation is good but we have to worry a...

This. >> john kelly, the chief of staff and don mcgahn, the white house chief incredibly displeased to put it mildly. they called ty cobb in on friday and read him basically the riot act and said you cant be talking about this in an obviously public context, the concern here being not just potentially tipping their hand through the press to what their strategy is and tipping their hand to mueller, but also, a potentially violation of attorney/client privilege. >> im glad it was at the blt steakh...