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To, or best way to get on his good side again is to make sure that you go out of your way to be trumpian in that way. show youre on his side and this seems like a part of that aspect, but as was just said, they are continuing to lean on this executive privilege argument. its one that may run out of steam. it can only be taken away if theres a ruling on that. thats what were see and really interesting is mark meadows is a former member of congress, and what he knows is that congress has to be abl...

Katie, i want to plea you meadows giving his own justification and then ask what the ramifications could be, given that as he said, theyve done one criminal referral. take a listen. do we have that? yeah, there we go. >> we found that in spite of our cooperation and sharing documents with them, they had issued, and the noes to us, without even a courtesy call, a shoot a subpoena to third-party carrier trying to get information. at this point, we feel like its best that we discontinue to honor th...

That these cases are not falling out in the exact same way but people in the periphery are watching them and they know criminal contempt is on the table, which is why it was our understanding that meadows agreed to cooperate in the first place. hes given over 6,000 documents. hes among the people who have been subpoenaed for their phone records for the telecommunications companies. and then as we move forward and look at that exclusive reporting by cnn, amazing reporting from my colleagues, ther...

White house, very close at the time january 6th went down, his claims of executive privilege as garrett knows, seems stronger. >> yes. i mean, this is a decision that the u.s. attorneys office will have to make. if congress finds they are in contempt. there are two ways, executive privilege is strongest for the advisers in the presidents immediate orbit and nobody is closer than that than the chief of staff. le would seem to have a strong executive privilege argument. on the other hand, the cour...

Of his executive privilege argument. >> well, ana, this is yet another infirmity problem with mark meadows executive privilege argument. a privilege is inherently a confidential communication between two people. if one writes a book about it generally speaking youve given up that privilege and youre have a former administration asking for executive privilege that looks like it will be shot down in the court and these conversations arent covered by executive privilege because they appear to deal ...

>> that does appear to be the case. i think the executive privilege argument was always pretty thin. they were using it, it seemed to me, primarily as a delay tactic. but the notion they would assert their fifth amendment rights. look, we cherish our constitutional rights and we ought not diminish the right of a person to not be compelled to testify against themselves if, and only if they have a reasonable apprehension, that the testimony that they would provide could be incriminating. its not a...

Our federal courts have three levels. weve already been to the u.s. district court, the trial court. now, heres how that came out. a judge, judge chutkin in washington, d.c., three weeks ago, she rejected the executive privilege argument. she says the committee gets the documents. the judge wrote presidents are not king, and, plaintiff, donald trump, is not president. that brings us to where we are today. >> what arguments do you expect today? >> back to our structure, weve already been here. no...

Unless a court rules that his conversations with former president trump were not privileged. >> clark, youll remember, was one of the doj officials who pushed the former presidents bogus election fraud claims. he also draft add proposal for the justice department to announce investigations into the 2020 vote tally in georgia. cnn legal analyst jennifer rogers joins us now, a former federal prosecutor. thats interesting. hes basically saying the executive privilege argument. is that what happened...

Fact of what is in each actual document, and the fact that donald trump really wants to delay this entire process that is one thing that the judge source told it. the former president tried to drag out with his executive privilege argument that -- the attorneys no must hold no water. it seems politically, especially with the number of witnesses that the committee is already investigating that this is going to be a full some thorough investigation that led up to january six. so i think the follow...

Executive privilege argument, that at least the attorneys must know hold no water, but it seems clear, especially with the number the committee has investigated that this is going to be a fulsome, thorough kpfgs -- examination. >> joyce, back to the judges comments. what meaning did you attach to her words when federal judges appointed for life speak? its important we pay attention. and also, if i can, a second part. what do you make of the importance of a second new york grand jury? >> well, i ...