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Its what we conferred to the presidents legal team. >> i think its a very dangerous precedent for a committee to ask you to violate a communication privilege between the president and vice president about their personal conversations. i think for many of us, weve expressed our concerns about what transpired and have been open about what the vice presidents position was. he wrote an open let to the -- letter to the public explaining that position. it does have a very partisan taint. >> liz cheney...

Communication privilege because she is a wife? >> yeah, i think im with ben on this one, alex. just because the president said he had a conversation with melania about this topic, i dont know that we should credit that. i think the presidential lie tally is approaching 9,000 at this point so, you know, yes, there would be a marital privilege and there are different marital privilege laws in different jurisdictions but essentially the marital privilege is designed to protect from public scrutiny,...

Hasnt met the level for overcoming executive privileges is a spurious one. executive privilege is a communication privilege. it is the president getting advice from his top policy advisers. there is nothing about this case that has to do with policy advice. and a lot of it has to do with before he even became the executive. so the notion that this is executive privilege overcoming the need by a grand jury is silly. but the standard -- >> this is from the espy case, right? >> sit is important to ...

Sally yates can shed important light on that. i think for that reason the white house does not want her to testify. lets bring her in. lets hear what she has to say. >> todays open hearing was postponed by chairman nunes along with a closed hearing with fbi director comey, nsa director rogers. and today the "washington post" reported that the trump administration was in fact seeking to block sally yates from testifying on russia at all. the post report details the back and forth through both let...

The week by devin nunes as the california republican and the white house denied implications of coordination over postponing the hearing on russia. now the hearing was supposed to take place yesterday with former acting attorney general sally yates who was fired by the president when she refused to defend his travel ban order. "the washington post" reports that in letters to yates attorney, the trump administration sought to block her from speaking to congress because potential topics were cover...

Have gone to the skiff here in the capitol. he could have brought in the individual who was providing him that information to look at it through the secure network in the skiff. none of this adds up. >> i want to ask you about your call for him to not just recuse himself but resign. first i want you on the record on a story thats just now breaking out of the "washington post." i want to be clear that nbc has not substantiated this reporting. in the last few minutes here, this is relevant to our ...

>> its a little boring. >> and they had already distributed it to employees of the state department. somebody in the state department said maybe we better not release this to the public, and the president signs an order declaring it secret. so this federal judge basically clarified a very interesting area of the law. question: can the president of the united states take any document in the government and keep it away from everybody? answer: as of yesterday, no, he cannot. >> well, thats good bec...

Great idea. >> greta: , well, they are two equal branches of government, and congress has the responsibility of oversight. he nets t needs to get that. congress served a subpoena last october. hes not complied with the subpoena. theyve now asserted executive privilege. that will be fairly resolved. its not like theyve been partnering, making sure it goes through the usual process. the d department of has been holding them off. >> thats true. theres executive privilege, theres presidential commun...

>> greta: well, they are two equal branches of government, and congress has the responsibility of oversight. he nets to needs to get that. congress served a subpoena last october. hes not complied with the subpoena. theyve now asserted executive privilege. that will be fairly resolved. its not like theyve been partnering, making sure it goes through the usual process. the d. department of has been holding them off. >> thats true. theres executive privilege theres presidential communication privi...

What happened here, alice. patti ann: legal perspective, we have jordan, with us. some people say there is a challenge whether or not it was proper for the president to invoke the privilege under these circumstances. how so? >> there is one important part. the bush loves to talk about bushs sus of executive privileges clinton 14. courts dont care. they look separately. all these numbers meaningless in the point of law. just a you at thatting point. doesnt matter. there are two kinds of executive...