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Statement, the first place you went for a second opinion was to the white house. >> i did not go for a second opinion. the question was is the information contained here suggest to executive privilege? not whether or not it met urgent concern sdplp so the first place that you went for advice as to whether or not you should provide the complaint as at statute requires to congress was the white house? >> im not authorized as the director of national intelligence to provide executive privilege info...

The law here is pretty clear, you have seven days to turn this over to congress, why didnt you, why were you compelled to block it? >> i think thats a question he will get. im sure hes prepared to answer it. i think hes in a very bad spot. department of justice knows thats executive privilege information, you cant release that information. does he have the ability to go around that decision, im not sure. >> he didnt need to go to the department of justice. thats the thing, he never needed to go....

That dont put them above the law, that is what the law provides. if you dont like it, change the law. >> laura: they say there is no absolute immunity from testimony. there is no absolute executive privilege. but conversations behind closed doors with the president of the united states, i think going back to the clinton administration, the olc opinion, it was tweeted earlier tonight, its pretty clear. this is classic executive privilege information. classic. >> first, it is, number one. number t...

House democrats will take out subpoena power. everything they can. adam schiff will do everything possible to get their hand on the report. i think a couple things are important. transparency is in everybodys interest. everybody should want this report to come out as fully as possible. does national security and classified information need to be redacted? sure. if we get into further game playing. taking out weak claims of executive privilege information. and grand jury material. theres ways to ...

And so i think the team is very cognizant of this debate right now in terms of its going to go to the attorney general. presumably, william barr if hes confirmed. and i would like to think theyre going to write it in a way that the report, itself, will be written in a way that can be released fully then there would be an annex that would have privacy information, executive privilege information, classified information, whatever else, that could be supplemental to the report. but i think that the...