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not a fishing expedition. it is up to them to be able to share with the american public that logic behind what they did, the fact that they had, what caused them. releasing the affidavit would be important. >> we also have new information on a personal message donald trump reportedly sent to merrick garland. back to the fbi top secret documents from his home. were gonna talk about this in a moment with january six committees members. the this hour, the last stand for another january 6t...

Somebody caught in the middle of it, and that does not excuse the person from the consequences. Professors, we have talked about abuse of power and bribery when we started, we said we would also discuss obstruction of congress. So i would like to ask you some questions about obstruction of congress. Professor gerhardt, in your view, is there enough evidence here to charge President Trump with a high crime and misdemeanor of obstruction of congress . I think that there is more than enough. As i m...

Think has said on fox news that he only testified before the 1-6 committee because he was subpoenaed and had to. he stops well short of getting into any sort of fulsome explanations about what was going on between pence and trump of which he clearly knew. he knew so much that on january 5th, he called in pences secret service detail and said hey, our guy is in trouble tomorrow. he is in danger. talk about what unlocking marc short to go beyond where he went with congress would mean for the inves...

The main thing they want to do is push back on the continuing refrain, that trump has done throughout the 20 months saying this is executive privilege material. its not for three different reasons. everybody in the legal system, the federal courts have said so. all that special master can do here is to look at the few attorney/client privilege material. but as evan pointed out, theyve been searched already by a taint team. and theres a procedure in the last paragraph of the affidavit, to serve i...

Say, were going to segregate these privilege materials, and then were going to share the rest with the negligentive team. heres with it isnt even attorney/client privilege that seems to be the issue, but executive privilege material. which is just a nonstarter when it is the very executive branch that holds the privilege that wants these documents back. i just dont think that donald trump has made the case as to why a special master is needed in this case. it may be that the judge out of an abun...

Attorney-client material and executive privilege material which they knowingly should not have taken. respectfully request these documents immediately returned to the location from which they were taken. and familiar with the investigation exclusively told me over the weekend those privilege materials were seized during the raid appeared former president went to call the fbi tainted past and said "the fbi has a long and in realizing history of being corrupt. he pointed back to the days of jl div...

Prosecutors believe that that person knowingly was trying to mislead the investigation, then that person could also be in trouble. >> so, as we try to put the details together in a letter signed in june saying no classified records certainly makes you understand why they might want a search warrant when they get information believing thats not true. the former president has thrown out a hundred different reasons. heres one from his true social site. he said they took boxes of privileged attorney...

There an obligation by the president to actually assert the constitutional privileges or authorities that have been given when accused of something? a crime or anything else? >> yes, i think that president obama has invoked too broadly, but on the other hand, he has released a lot of information. i have been friends with bill barr for a long time. we disagree on executive privilege. i am a madisonian scholar. i favor congress in disputes. and he is the inverse spread his natural default is artic...

Harris, that the white house will demand to see that report before he goes to congress. because if it contains any material that is subject to executive privilege, the white house counsels office will likely want to review that material to see if it would waive executive privilege or if it would demand reduction. so theres a really good chance that it will go from mueller to william barr, to the white house counsels office, then to congress. but if there isnt any executive privilege material it ...

If there was a moment in time when the white house would say hey, take a long walk, bob mueller, were not going to give up these documents, this is executive privilege material, that was a year ago. you know, youve turned over a million documents plus to the special counsel and you made it a rule that everybody at the white house, every staff member has to cooperate with bob mueller and sit for an interview. once you done that, it becomes awfully difficult to say actually i have a new lawyer and...