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Has the president invoked executive privilege in the caves your testimony here today? >> he has not. >> then what is the basis of your refusal to answer these questions? >> senator cain, the president has a constitutional. >> i understand that, but the president hasnt asserted it. you said you dont have the power to assert the executive privilege. what is the legal bases of protecting they conversations. >> i am protecting the right of the president, i will exert it if he chooses. >> thats the b...

>> the stand your ground law gives many people the ability to kill someone who then is not in a position to speak to himself and for the specifics of the situation and allows for homicides and the murder of individuals who are truly victims. and i think that it is -- that is why george zimmerman didnt invoke stand your ground because even that broad law you wouldnt have worked for him. and yet the self-defense law worked for him. but the point is this is a law that has to be looked at again. >> ...

>> the stand your ground law gives many people the ability to kill someone who then is not in a position to speak to himself and for the specifics of the situation and allows for homicides and the murder of individuals who are truly victims. and i think that it is -- that is why george zimmerman didnt invoke stand your ground because even that broad law you wouldnt have worked for him. and yet the self-defense law worked for him. but the point is this is a law that has to be looked at again. >> ...

>> the stand your ground law gives many people the ability to kill someone who then is not in a position to speak to himself and for the specifics of the situation and allows for homicides and the murder of individuals who are truly victims. and i think that it is -- that is why george zimmerman didnt invoke stand your ground because even that broad law you wouldnt have worked for him. and yet the self-defense law worked for him. but the point is this is a law that has to be looked at again. >> ...

Played as an informant in watergate by the notion he did not know what mr. mcgahn had shared. the president didnt invoke executive privilege and allowed don mcgahn to speak and it is said he thought the president would throw him under the bus and got out to tell him what he knows. >> i dont know there was any executive privilege applied here. the thing about the attorney general privilege, he represents the office of the president and mr. trump, dishonoring that office, i think his obligation wo...

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