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Communications with the president. the committee gave him a lot of leeway in that respect. it does seem with more and more of these trump officials being summoned to the grand jury that prosecutors are, in fact, sort of priming for what will be a fight over executive privilege, and how much information they can get out of especially eric hirschmann, on the same plane with pat cipollone, pat philbin as deputy white house counsel, so this further adds to the evidence that the department of justice...

A -- in addition. if you dont strike a deal with us, trump is going to try to draw this out as long as he can. cipollone might, but trump could intervene and try to extend it as long as possible, make every appeal. thats the only thing, i think, they can be offering in return for some kind of favorable treatment on the executive privilege issue. >> i want to drill down on something. you said they are targeting or looking directly at his conversations. why are you saying that, harry? >> because t...

Sort of dotting their eyes and dotting the ts and preparing for a court battle over a potential executive privilege issue, signals that if information is what you want, the negotiation approach, let alone the muscle isnt going to cut it. now, remember, concerns about privileged are believed to be why they chose not to pursue any contempt of congress charges against mark meadows or against could be no, as opposed to a course de benin and navarro. at the same time, the department has now greenligh...

Course, a republican there. it is interesting to hear theyre still looking into some of the things that happened after election day. the executive privilege issue i think he acknowledged, it is a very big development, if the federal investigators are trying to take that head on, they have a possibility of learning a lot more from some of the witnesses. >> yeah. lets bring in cnn anchor chris wallace, the host of "whos talking to chris wallace" to talk more about this with us. what did you think ...

And actually go on record under oath and say exactly whatrivilew happened here. and they wouldnt they hid behind a privilege which they wouldntas allow, which they wouldnt allow me to the judge the time narrowcast was on the executive privilege issue. >> i spent my whole life in washington. i see a lot of io acrimonious debates. but the idea you would sendn someone to prison because you dont like his political views, theres no allegation that you organize january 6th over there in front of the c...

Committee is simply giving away too much ground. >> well, so, executive privilege has been litigated in terms of documents. it hasnt exactly been litigated in terms of conversations yet. so it may be that the committee doesnt feel like they have any avenue to get that stuff right now. >> reporter: its possible. but youre right, the committee won a big court battle on the executive privilege issue in the national archives documents case. now, that wouldnt necessarily apply to these conversations....

Would love to hear his side of the story but they have hesitated to send an invitation. does now seem like the right time to do just that? >> one suspects that theres a little behind-the-scenes dance going on because the former vice presidents aides have testified. weve seen reporting from the committee that they were willing to share communications and talk about impressions, but they drew the line at talking about the former vice presidents and perhaps their own actual communications with trum...

California, also chair of the house administration committee. thank you for joining us, as wells we appreciate it. its great to see you on a sunday afternoon. lets talk first about the national archives material youre receiving from florida. have you seen it yet? how important do you think it is to the investigation? >> well, we dont know because we havent seen it. but we did ask for everything in the national archives related to january 6th and events leading up to the 6th. the process is the a...

Mark meadows. we know the department justice is considering whether or not to move forward with an indictment for mark meadows. theres a lot of work ahead for them as they continue the fact finding. >> i assume we have not found any followup from the doj? >> its going to be a couple weeks on that end. its a difficult question because of the executive privilege issue. the fact that hes a former member. its going to take a while. >> pete williams and sahil and anna, thank you all so much. happy ho...

Would suspect is they are trying to figure out what the court of appeals is going to say on executive privilege issue. want time for that opinion to come out because if the court of appeals or the supreme court does not weigh in on this and says theres no valuable claim of privilege here then bannons claims go away. you want to put it far enough out to let the weigh in, but for a july when the simple elements are there. a congressional subpoena was issued. you failed to comply. youve said you fa...