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Should be protected under his claim of exec privilege and they range from call loggings, things that showed what was happening inside the west wing, inside the white house, in those key weeks and days around january 6th, including memos, handwritten notes written by mark meadows and other white house staff, white house lawyers who were seeing some of the activity that the former president was making, was involved in in trying to overturn the election results. obviously, for the committee, this i...

Case, you cant use it for conversations in furtherance of criminal activity. with nixon, it was in furtherance of the conspiracy to obstruct the watergate chase. here its relating to basically an insurrection that was perpetrated on the congress. and theres no way under any circumstance that any court is ever going to say that those conversations are legitimate, executive privilege covered conversations. the exec privilege relates to legitimate government business that the president is engaged i...

>> i think it will be difficult for them to justify not doing that given theyve already done this for steve bannon and theyre trying to send a signal to other people they need to cooperate with the oversight and the subpoenas or theyll be in trouble. if they dont do it with meadows, their whole investigation honestly would be in jeopardy. i think theres some concern about that. with mark meadows in particular, more so than steve bannon, you know, you see the real importance of talking to him. th...

The executive privilege fight. >> if you have exec privilege, a very weak privilege, qualified, she will be able to say anything she wants to. she no longer works for the white house. she will choose to stick to whatever the white house has said it is going to allow to be public. i think the question here is, how much she will share about what topics. remember the mueller report, shes the one running to donald trump saying, hey, theres going to be a story in these emails about trump tower. and i...

An answer on that, whether hes going to turn those memos over, as early as monday. >> what about the presidents lawyer that he was going to file a complaint against former fbi director james comey? >> jacob, i think thats straight out of trumps trumps m.o. is something that he learned many years ago from his lawyer, the rate ray cohen, which is to always attack, never play defense. that works in some situations but in this particular circumstance, and based on what i know of it, i dont think the...