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Theres been no change in how the department has worked with the internal counsels office. over the past day the department and committee counter exchanged letters concerning the at the prerogatives of the branches. im pleased we have reached an agreement that allows me to appear here voluntary. is am pleased that if we have differences well work them out in good faith before resorting to subpoenas or other form am legal processes. i will answer the economiees questions as best i can, but i will ...

Office. over the past day the department and the committee have exchanged letters concerning the prerogatives of the legislative and executive branchs. im glad we reached an agreement for me to appear here voluntarily and each branch would seek to accommodate each other and if we have differences well try to work them out in good faith before resorting to subpoenas or other formal legal processes. i will answer the committees questions as best i can. but i will continue the longstanding executiv...

At the trump organization, the trump foundation, the trump campaign, the trump inaugural committee and the trumps. and that is a long, serious complicated ongoing financial investigation which i believe is going to continue well past the day that mueller files a report. >> i want to remind people what is going on here if youre just joining us. we had about 25, 20 minutes in that range of testimony, opening statement from matt whitaker. five minute questions from both the chairman and the ranking...

Cool and do his best to be very cooperative with the committees questions. >> weve got two legal experts here in the studio. well come to you now. executive privilege, that was the topic that came up pretty early on here. this is what matt whitaker said about exercising executive privilege. take a listen. >> i will answer the committees questions as best i can. but i will continue the long-standing executive branch practice of not disclosing information that may be subject to executive privilege...

Will be willing to say. how hard democrats will push him to say it. lets go to the hear right now on capitol hill. >> concerning the respective prerogatives of the legislative and executive branches. i am pleased were able to reach an agreement that allows me to appear here voluntarily. i am pleased also that we agreed that each branch would seek to accommodate each other and that if we have differences well try to work them out in good faith before resorting to subpoenas or other formal legal p...

Duval patrick and his staff showed up to take power in january, 2007. state employees buying their work computers? thats a new one on me. romneys chief legal counsel said it was common practice in the governors office and, quote, those purchases were in agreement with the law and long-standing executive branch practice. in massachusetts theyre supposed to hand over electronic records when the governor leaves office. seems very fishy to me. joining me now, glen johnson n, political editor of "t...