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But its not absolute. the supreme court has already said there is really a public interest standard there also. if it involves a crime and it involves public interest, then executive privilege can be overwritten. so he can declare it. also i think there is a tendency of the president or anybody in the executive branch to call executive privilege. first you narrow that down to the real executive privilege issues, and then you decide whether the public interest is so demanding that it has to be re...

Nothing would stop barr. bar isnt going to have the final say here. if he tries to with hold even one word they going to litigate that to the absolute end of the earth. they are really going to push the executive privilege issues. it is almost certainly going to wind up in the united states supreme court. >> they will subpoena for the whole report. >> and one question is also how much of this report mueller wants to be released to the public. there are ways he could have written this report, wri...

"x." it can be inferred next to what other people are saying. the failure to debrief suggests they did not understand what was going on here and that suggests there may have been admissions made. but we really dont know. >> hang on one second. i asked this question in the last hour. do you think its finally starting to settle in that the president is realizing don mcgahn is not his personal attorney, that he represents the office of a the presidency? >> now that were talking about why mcgahn had...

Activities before he became president. this would only apply after january 20th of things like the firing ems so would be potential law enforcement? no. i just recent lip read u.s. versus nixon on the executive privilege issues, and i think that the overwhelming weight shows that hed have great voke and unless the prosecutors need it and it will be the prosecutors decision, not his. >> we know rudy yul janie has he said it would be middlesex, nsh

>> if these interviews are going like the ones before it. more specifically about what she has to say about her time in the white house. what we have been told my members so far is that she is refusing to answer questions about her time in the white house. she is answering time about her time in the campaign, but this gets into the executive privilege issues or the holding out the right to assert executive privilege, probably the more accurate way to do this. she is simply telling the committee ...

That comey had kept these me lick lou -- meticulous notes. >> mueller will have the ability to see what e-mails, i should think, unless theres executive privilege issues, what e-mails were said after the meetings trump had with him, what did he say to his son-in-law and reince priebus. its not as if its -- i am not suggesting youre saying this, but its not as if its tapes or nothing. theres a lot of in between evidence that mueller in particular and the congress to some degree and house committe...

Be relevant to a pending criminal investigation. b, because there could be executive privilege issues, or other kinds of privilege issues. my understanding about these is that comey memorialized nearly every interaction he had with the president, whether it was a phone call or a meeting. and he did it shortly afterwards. and it was sort of a note to file, a reflection of the conversation for just this eventuality. and comey was trying to manage the situation where he thought the president was ma...

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Hillary clinton. that was why the investigation was opened in the first place. the obstruction element only came later when the president fired the fbi director who was investigating his campaign for that alleged collusion. of course, this is -- this was always going to be top of mind for bob mueller. and i think that bringing in emmett flood is significant for another reason which is that whether he worked in the george w. bush white house, he detail mostly with executive privilege issues. that...

Emmet flood is significant for another reason which is that whether he worked in the george w. bush white house, he detail mostly with executive privilege issues. that indicates theyre going to take a new approach maybe to fighting off a potential interview with mueller by limiting the scope of questions or limiting the topics that he can cover by saying no, no, no, those covered by executive privilege. problem with that so much of what mueller is investigating is collusion. that goes back to th...