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absurd claims. since the fbi searched donald trumps private residence and members club back in august. the ex-president declassified all the documents that he could declassify them if he wanted to, quote, even by thinking about it. it is a claim that has been repeated over and over and over again by trump and his allies. the disgraced ex-president mentioned it in public and the media appearances so many times. not one single time has that claim been made in a court of law. now new repo...

degree on property that ought to be returned would result in reputational harm of a decidedly different order of magnitude. "new york times" points this out, quote, her ruling seemed to carve out a special exception to the normal legal process for the former president and reject the justice departments implicit argument that trump be treated like any other investigative subject. there are significant questions on how her new ruling will work, especially since the special master is perm...

they were privy to, is potentially formidable. it includes former secretary of state, mike, who we first reported last night is expected to sit down with the house committee, perhaps soon as this week. also former treasury secretary, steven mnuchin, we have learned today that he has already been interviewed by the committee. sources also tell us that because uses are underway for the former national intelligence director, john ratcliffe, for a sit down with him. then there is former ac...

This executive privilege issue. there are other ways where we may see it soon. so essentially, trump is being flushed out on this often advanced but legally empty claim. >> so fig, just talk about his investigative matter, how important it is to have fulsome and unrestricted access not just to the people who knew what trump was doing, but to the people who knew they were the victims, the intended victims of the attack. >> yeah, so as an investigator, youre looking at this going look, as i approa...

All the answers here. everything they want out of this. there would be ways to go to figure this out, and then potentially get more information. we are also learning about a lot of other investigative work that the justices do. theyre obtaining the cell phone of john eastman. theyre getting to look into the contents of july 12th. we also reported tonight that someone working with jeffrey clark who is helping trump at the justice department that he was searched the same as klukowski, hes become a...

At all anyway because its only authority to gather information is for legislating, not for investigating. thats an argument trump used in the past and it hasnt been successful. the second is the executive privilege one, and that has to be worked out. that could take, you know, if it goes to the supreme court, it could take a year, two years. before we get the answer on whether president trump can exert executive wins or loses w determine what can beturned over to the committee. the executive pri...

People who worked for or directly with the administration. steve bannon by that point was outside doing his own stuff. the former president of the united states would -- says that executive privilegecovers their ability not to participate and not to provide information. this is what jen psaki said about that. >> the president has already concluded that it would not be appropriate to assert executive privilege. and so we will respond promptly to these questions as they arise and certainly as they...

They are oftentimes dog-and-pony shows. we dont glean a great deal of new information. do you surmise thats going to be any different this afternoon? >> i dont think so because whitaker can either do that kinda sorta executive privilege thing or he can say ongoing investigation. so he doesnt have to volunteer anything. its a question of whether he says something by accident thats useful or contradictory of something earlier that was said. i agree that it probably would be a better tactic not to ...

Confirmed. there are some specific things they have to share with congress like if there was a disagreement about who to prosecute or some other major decision. there is not really a lot that says this has to be made public or has to be shared. the reason are looking at the executive privilege thing is we know they wont bring charges against the president. they are operating under justice department guidelines. when you look at the question of obstruction, the white house wants to shield the ame...

Are going to cut it for mueller. >> ken dilanian, you want to get in on this idea of why the white house would think that somebody like bob mueller would accept written responses, which i think chucks still being polite here. i think a written response when you talking about donald trump if its written by someone other than donald trump means perhaps something not entirely representing the truth. >> yeah, i dont think the white house thinks that robert mueller will accept that, nicolle. i think ...