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Shot, but did you -- as you watched this -- see an attempt by sessions to set up a potential executive privilege argument by the president? >> it certainly sounded like he was sounding the alarms and saying mr. president if you are listening this is the time to exert executive privilege. ill not exactly sure that was what was going on. responding to your last question, where are the staff willing to talk truth to power. where are the people willing to stand up and say mr. president this is wrong...

Investigation of michael flynn. lets bring in the analyst and specialists. weve got lots to discuss. susan hennessey, james comey will clearly testify publicly next week unless the president can come forward with this executive privilege argument and stop him from doing so. white house is considering that. you are our legal analyst national security analyst, is that doable? >> so executive privilege is a way for the president to prevent other parts of the government from essentially compelling i...

I think the executive privilege argument is going to fall short and thats why youll see some documents hopefully released and get to the bottom of this. the border agents family, brian terrys family deserves the answer the american people deserve the answer and congress deserves the truth here. theyically lied to. its serious. to have a letter come in and then retracting it this is serious tough stuff and that was a big mistake and there are consequences to this. bill: you filed a brief to the j...

>> that time line is fuzzy. and i think thats one reason why keith kelloggs name showed up. hes likely there to answer questions about that piece of it. >> sean spicer as jim sciutto was talking about, kept notebooks filled with specifics about his work in the white house. does he have to turn all those over to mueller? >> he does. theyre not protected by attorney/client privilege or really executive privilege, which has largely been weighed, even if it could be claimed. but even when an executi...

Didnt have to worry about kushner and he was going to sideline kushner because of russia. that he had information on the russian investigation and that he was going to sideline jared kushner. two days after i heard this, two days, front page "new york times" story about the links between kushner and russia. a coincidence? absolutely not. steve bannon has been leaking, i believe, based on everything that ive heard, has been leaking these stories. >> allan, give me your response to that. >> well, ...