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That i would be very happy. Absolutely. Lets not forget i know we have said it. But this investigation is over. The president never sat down for an interview with Robert Mueller. Thats huge. That was always the big question and something the lawyers never wanted to happen. They were able to prevent that and a subpoena fight. Robb eert mueller never put in request that was rejected. Thats very significant. Stay with me. This is cnn breaking news. Were following breaking news. Very Important News ...

Weve got to look at for eight months e were doing this so i think following procedures is something you have to look at time is expired if he wishes. He doesnt wish. Good morning. The president who had no role in the white house asked you to deliver that message to Attorney General Sessions the president could have picked up the phone himself at any time and called the Attorney General. The president also had a full staff of executive employees right down the hall. So this made me wonder if the ...

Have been practicing criminal law for over 20 years. you can probably tell by some of the gray and my beard and i have never seen prosecutor invoke attorney client privilege, much less get a successful ruling from a judge allowing that prosecutor tapirs attorney client privilege. um, excuse me to invoke the crime fraud exception. and really, to get a ruling from the judge. it says the crime product section applies to pure security client privilege. never seen anything like that. its very unusual...

Be answered by everyone, and that includes likely mark meadows if the fbi wants him to come in. >> elliott, i want you to respond to that and also what does the doj do right now to get meadows to cooperate? >> yeah. you know, im going to take a slightly different view from my two friends here in that its not a completely frivolous argument being raised by these former senior white house staffers because at the end of the day they are former senior white house staffers and would have protected so...

Meadows if the fbi wants him to come in. >> elliott, i want you to respond to that. and also, what does the doj do right now to get meadows to cooperate fully? >> yeah, i mean to take a slightly different view from my two friends here in that, its not a completely frivolous argument being raised by these former senior white house staffers. because at the end of the day, they are former senior white house staffers who wouldve had protected, some protected conversations with the president. or amon...

Than when we may see an dimt or if we see an indictment, were fixing to see litigation thats going to last for a long time, over the next year, at least. i expect they will challenge executive privilege. lets pause and say, i dont care if its trump or somebody you like as president. executive privilege is important because it allows the president to get advice. you hope that he or she is getting good advice from people. we want to have protections. in this case, he may have pushed it to shield h...

The people who asserted at this point? >> you know, thats an excellent question. they may very well be trying to run out the clock. the simple fact is though -- its important they said three months, laura, only three months. its very quick in sort of supreme court and law terms. its a relatively straightforward question, the executive privilege question as it made it to the supreme court. look, hen this has come up in the past in history, and it hasnt been many times, the biggest one being 1974 ...

Executive privilege question as it made it to the supreme court. when this has come up in the past in history -- and it hasnt been many times, the biggest one being 1974 with ruichard nixon during watergate -- the supreme court ruled against the president, saying executive privilege is a real thing. its important for the president to be able to speak to his aides in private, but it cant trump a criminal investigation -- pun intended. but, look, the clock is not the midterms. the clock is five ye...

Msnbc legal analyst. and neil, i want to pick up on that point there, they reached what appears to be kind of a quick agreement of mark short and jacob, a quick agreement of areas that they would stare around in order to avoid the issue of privilege at this stage. but the prosecutors reserve the right to come back to it, bring them back into the grandeur, possibly after fighting this out in court and erasing any attempts of privilege, and -- >> exactly, lawrence, ive been waiting for the story b...

Committee from accessing his white house records, which are currently held by the national archives. while the justices consider whether theyre even going to take up the case, trump also attacked and asked that they put on hold the lower court decision allowing the documents to be released. our cnn legal analyst is here. joan, to be clear, as youve said earlier, these are not the former presidents records. these are the publics records. but whats -- im so fascinated by here is the fact that this...