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Balanced against the person who wants to hold it or it cannot be. i think in this instance, theyre going to lose. this is an investigation of a insurrection. executive privilege doesnt cover that kind of behavior. thats clearly why the white house has said were not putting any executive privilege on this first batch of documents that have been requested from the national archives. and that is going to undercut it for whoever else tries to rely on it. so, pam, i dont think its going to work. i th...

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Congress oversight duties. and somehow bill barr then says there wont be a criminal case and that i think is the guts of whats so wrong here. somehow this justice department and bill barr whos given us very little room to trust his decision making in this regard cuts off both avenues of review, and theyre very different as we know. prosecutorial and congressional. >> its an amazing sort of legal magic trick doj pulls off. sounds like a crime has been committed, why dont you let us see it, and th...

Executive branch. but heres one you cant do that the executive privilege doesnt include the ability to interpret something in order to cover up corrupt abuse of power. and as you pointed out at the top of this show, the white house officials knew something had been done and they knew it t when they did it. >> i want to follow up on that because were going to end up with some big fight on privilege here. its to me inevitable in the same way the nixon tapes endsed up with a big fight on privilege....

Has absolute immunity regarding her tenure in the white house, and you say that is a legal alice in wonderland. what do you mine by that? >> theres no such thing. theres an executive privilege and a logic to having executive privilege. certainly the president needs to be confident that people coming to him, talking about the policies are not going to be called in to testify about it, that makes sense. when you extrapolate that to what we have here. which is not talking about policy, but arguably...

That treasury secretary has invoked claiming i can refuse to provide this if there is no legislative purpose. the law is precleared. those lawyers drafted in the internal memo the way they saw and the way everybody sees. we will see how it plays out in the courts because this is all about political leverage at this point. it is going to take time. shannon: your comments on this is a document of any import? >> let me confess up front the worst grade i got in law school was in tax law. this is not...

Really didnt know what they were getting here. the white house really did not know whats going to be in this report. >> executive privilege doesnt cover all aspects of this mueller, russia investigation. >> the lawyers are making very, very broad executive privilege claims. executive privilege only plausibly ap plplies from the period of time after trump becomes president, only applies for conversations between and with government officials. so it might plausibly apply to say the elements of the...

We want to get your reaction to what gowdy called a tortured version of executive privilege. bannon said ill answer some questions but i wont talk about transition, thats off limits. i think he is legally within his rights to do that. do you have a problem with that? >> there is no legal issue here, its a political issue. when you testifying in front of congress, basically its congress who determines whether or not you have to answer questions and if they think youre in contempt they can seek to...

Koreas nuclear threat. the president at the pentagon next hour and marco rubio joins us to talk about that. plus this. >> the president doesnt want a shutdown. if one happens i think you have one place to look, to the democrats who are holding our military and our national security hostage by trying to push through other policies that have nothing to do with the budget. >> sandra: the white house clearly blaming democrats amid the threat of a government shutdown. lawmakers are facing big questio...

-- these deadlines started in september. so weve been doing this since september that weve been kicking the can on this stuff. i think the president, who has never been in washington, never worked in washington before, maybe he wants to try it out. by the way, he has considerable power as president to try to mitigate the effects of a shutdown in terms of ordering the governments obligations and what gets paid first. maybe he wants to try it out. i dont know. >> bill: give it a test drive. thank ...