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criminal trial and how much he has incriminated himself. now, we all know a lots happened this week, but there continues to be new reporting and developments including trumps focus on the boxes. "the new york times" reports trump was attached to the boxes of documents even while he was in office. a white house official said trump would notice if somebody rifled through them or they werent arranged in a particular way. thats how his, quote, mind worked. those boxes were found ultimately...

reports. we begin with breaking news on two deadly mass shootings in this weeks five hours i louisville, kentucky two killed and four wounded an in dadeville, alabama, fou dead in a quote multitude of injuries lets join shaquille - with the latest. jack, welcome. what are you hearing about the latest from the shooting i alabama? >> we expect to get up som officials in that hour but i sounds like that press conference has been postpone at this point. what we know is pretty muc what you ...

That that will obviate the court fight. and i think ultimately, the congress is going to have to fight in court and also have to open impeachment proceedings because its the only way to really guarantee quick answers on these bogus executive privilege assertions. >> and hearing you say that is really interesting that you think they have validity to the strategy, but the very sober, if i may, the very erudite neal katyal is telling dims through the television, thats fine, but it wont resolve the ...

A valid assertion or not and figure out a way to move on from it. the good news is shes testifying. the bad news is we dont know how extensive the executive privilege assertions will be. unfortunately, shes testifying behind closed doors. as weve learned from the mueller report, most americans gather their information visually and not by -- watching it on tv and not by reading so well be left with another multi hundred page transcript for in the morning read, which it wont. >> and gabby, the pre...

Information about how the -- how the investigation discovered what they did and it had names it had times. it was full of details. they thinks that that indictment can be as detailed as that, then this report could be potentially released entirely to the public as well. >> certainly thats possible, katy. depends on exactly how the report has been drafted. it may well be that the mueller team has drafted this report so as to minimize potential redactions. remember that the categories that would p...

This specific question has never been answered, but there is a general view in court cases that no one is above the law, and so while they may be able to limit the scope of the questioning based on some executive privilege assertions, i think legal experts generally dont think that they would be able to avoid complying all together. >> and yet you mentioned he could invoke the fifth amendment. listen to what the president has said about that in the past. >> have you seen whats going on in front ...

Those citations were very serious. i mean were talking about having the cover of agents involved in covert operations in other countries blown. were talking about secret meetings that were held with former vice president and no one could gather any data. there were a series, in those six executive privilege assertions by president bush, there was no protestations by chairman issa, by any of the other republicans who were now so focused on challenging this attorney general and being so aggressive...