Executive Privilege Protections News Today

president. plus water rescues under way in miami as a tropical cyclone makes its way onshore with more than 10 million people in its path. and celebrating 70 years on the throne. who is attending the queens platinum jubilee and who isnt. "newsroom" starts now. hello, everyone, thank you so much for joining me, im fredericka whitfield. we begin in wisconsin where a former judge is now dead, targeted in a bizarre plot to kill government officials. former juneau county circuit court...

Than the conagainst steve bannon. as meadows has engaged with the committee, hes provided extensive evidence and former president trump is still litigating over any potential executive privilege protections in this investigation. but no matter what happens at the justice department, by revealing these extraordinary texts yesterday and today, the committee clearly building its case for contempt against meadows in the court of public opinion. >> paula reid, thank you. lets discuss this with form...

For him to comply with subpoena or risk being held in criminal contempt like bannon. now, while his counsel has been in talks with the committee, one source with knowledge of the negotiations told cnn its becoming, quote, increasingly clear that he has no real intention of cooperating. but unlike bannons case, its possible meadows could have executive privilege protections as trumps chief of staff. a major rebrand for facebook. the tech giant will now be known as metta. facebook will become a ...

Another subpoena date for him which would force him to either comply or potentially be referred for criminal contempt like steve bannon. but there is a risk here, jake. unlike steve bannon, as a former chief of staff, meadows likely has greater executive privilege protections. now, would the biden white house uphold those for him? it is unclear. so far president biden has declined to assert executive privilege over bannon and other trump white house records. the white house counsel has repeatedl...

Position that would be uncomfortable for any white house because every current president knows that he or she will ultimately be a former president. and so current presidents are loathe to take steps that could weaken executive privilege protections that they some day down the track may want to use. thats part of the reason, i believe, that the white house counsels office and the president himself have been moving only as quickly as they have to. they really arent getting ahead of their skis wha...

Coup, and mark meadows, who reporting shows, played a close role in fomenting all this as well. theyre both private citizens. they dont have any executive privilege protections. they may try to claim them, but dont you think we should hear from them under oath? >> well, i do. ultimately, the chairman make the decision in consultation with all this about witnesses but i think their testimony would plainly be relevant. they are participants in the effort to overturn the results of the election, yo...

Make to present witnesses before that committee, right now weve only heard one side of the story. >> right, and you know while most of the presidents allies do seem to lean, this long holiday weekend possibly shift strategies, i mean, theyve got four days looking this over, you know, we could see maybe changes. >> the burden of proof is not on him and completely unraveling before their eyes, so i dont see any upside for him to directly participate and i can see downside in terms of the damage it...

Them over, either, but they can work the system. then there are those names like julian assange, wikileaks, cambridge analytica. theyre all foreign entities, theyre beyond congress reach. theres a whole lot of current or former west wingers on the list who bring legitimate executive privilege protections, surrounding conversations with the president and it seems thats what they want. his inner circle at the trump org, you have cohen who gave a tantalizing peek into what may be there but the ques...

Muellers report. >> i dont think were there yet. >> we have to wait to see how all of this fits into the larger context. >> let mueller finish his job. >> all right. then quick question, why didnt you wait until after mueller to launch all this oversight? also looks a little duplicative since the intel committees are digging into many of these same topics. finally, these are the three agencies with long and well-established reasons for keeping things secret. for example, it took the obama justic...