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United states versus nixon, and regardless of the world view or philosophy of the justice, the justices were unanimous. this is not just a consraoeufance, its built into the very nature of our constitutional order. so let me comment briefly. this constitutionally based recognition of executive privilege, and then companion privileges, the deliberative process privilege, the immunity of close presidential advisers from being summoned to testify. these are all firmly established in our law. if the...

Associates arrests, igor furman and lev parnas, they were working in this rogue diplomacy, shadow diplomacy with rudy giuliani to remove vich vich from that position. theres going to be more information coming to light on that too. >> in letters back and forth, in the letters that went back and forth that have been released friday fiona hills attorneys, one line is definitely not going unnoticed is this. her attorneys write, finally we understand that deliberative process privilege, quote, disap...

That its not insignificant that this marker was laid down about the limitations legally of executive privilege. this is a letter from hills attorney. "executive privilege likely does not apply to information which is to longer confidential and has come within the sphere of public knowledge through broad disclosures. matters which have been made public through affirmative actions of the white house."ges transcript. "and/or media reports not protected by executive privilege because they are by the...

Witness, the failure to produce the documents, we consider yet additional strong evidenceoe constitutional functions of congress, a co-equal branch oft government. >> laura: okay. rudy, again, if you assert a privilege, executive privilege, attorney-client privilege, deliberative process privilege, you are guilty of obstructionof. theres no winning in this scenario. >> i would like to explain toe little schiff that propounding and presenting a false completely false narrative of someones guilt i...

>> the failure to produce this witness, the failure to produce the documents, we consider additional strong evidence of construction, a coequal branch of government. >> laura: if you assert a privilege, executive privilege, attorney-client privilege, deliberative process privilege, you are guilty of obstruction -- theres no winning in this scenario. >> i would like to explain to little schiff that propounding and presenting a false, completely false narrative, someones guilt is called obstructin...

Are not muzzling him. he will stick to what he did in the public record. doing anything else would be dangerous and reckless. >> neil: so if he has asked to elaborate a little bit more on neither deciding one way or the other on obstruction of justice, how does he handle that? sticking to the script is one thing but he leaves it open-ended. >> i think he handles it by saying what i wrote in the report is as far as i can go because of certain privileges. one of them is the deliberative process pr...

Attorney general sessions was fired, but every democrat without exception grandstanding. they asked questions that had nothing to do, zero relevance t their proper oversight role. the only person purpose was to hit him with cheap shot after cheap shot after cheap shot knowing that whitaker was rightfully going to assert with called the deliberative process privilege in refusing to answer questions about conversations h had with other doj staff, it wa totally expected. given the democrats over-th...

Request for testimony fall outside the scope of oversight, and more specifically, they will say there is executive privilege, there is deliberative process privilege, there is attorney/client privilege. both sides have weapons and defenses, but its not going to be as easy as it has been for trump so far. >> the prosecutors, they have an advantage here to some degree, right? they have two inside men, two major players in the trump organization. michael cohen, of course, but allen weisselberg, the...

Privilege, the deliberative process privilege and the presidential communications privilege." now, im not a lawyer. and statistically speaking neither are you. but think of that for a second. this is for the transition. so trumps not president. so hes claiming presidential privilege over stuff that happens before hes -- i mean, there cant be presidential privilege if donald trump wasnt president yet unless theres presidential privilege for the president of the trump organization. thats not how i...

>> yesterday attorney general sessions, in deliberative process, not necessarily well known to the public, a number of privileges, attorney-client privilege, executive privilege, deliberative process privilege, this is not anything new, not something the team concocted prior to these hearings. eric holder, and the obama administration, the deliberative process privilege on many occasions, one was when president obama appointed richard corker to director of the financial protection bureau, questi...