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Separate reasons. he says, as trump has said, that he cant be compelled to produce documents because of executive privilege, although as you noted hes voluntarily turned over a lot of material he says isnt privileged. he argues as a former top white house official, he is immune from being compelled to come before congress, and that is a view the justice department has repeatedly expressed over the past five decades about both parties about the immunity of top executive branch officials. and he s...

Investigation but who sub in to look at material, so if they do stumble across anything thats privileged, the rest of the investigation isnt tainted. here the governors actually offered to have a neutral arbiter, someone from outside to come in as a special master to make the calls about what is or isnt privileged. you can imagine the outcome if you let defendants decide in every case what material the government couldnt see because it was privileged. it would bring all criminal investigations t...

Difficult position to thread between trying to keep the president at bay and protecting the mueller investigation. the good news for sessions is by recusing himself he was able to go off and i think was in bulgaria last week on some trip. >> wash my hands of that. >> all right. want to get heidi przybilla in here. so im going to give heidi the task of explaining what rudy giuliani said. >> good luck. >> president trumps lawyer, rudy giuliani, commented on the state of preparations for a potentia...

Its her job to go through the documents and decide on whether the items are privileged or not. the parties will help her by making claims about what is and what isnt privileged, and shell ultimately make that decision. she was on the bench for 17 years. i had many cases in front of her. she was a terrific judge. shes fair. shes very calm. shes not ideological at all, so shes a very good choice here on the merits. i also think it was smart of judge wood to pick someone not on either of partys lis...

Nothing but undermining them. >> jennifer, i often come to you for definitions of legal terms on behalf of our audience, all of us lay people. special master sounds like a title in the british army. today the federal judge, kimba wood, appointed a special master to go through the stuff that was swept up in the cohen search. she happens to be a retired federal judge. talk about the definition of the term special master and your knowledge of this judge whos been appointed. we see her right there. ...

Sifting through legal documents and making calls about whats privileged and whats not. so barbara jones is the special master who was appointed. its her job to go through the documents and decide on whether the items are privileged or not. the parties will help her by making claims about what is and what isnt privileged, and shell ultimately make that decision. she was on the bench for 17 years. i had many cases in front of her. she was a terrific judge. shes fair. shes very calm. shes not ideol...

Defense attorney would have. if this taint team benefits, the government benefits as to documents that are not privileged which way are they going to lean? towards a finding that this isnt privileged. no matter what, the law place as burden on the attorney to file the motion to get those documents either returned or suppressed. >> which is what is happening as we speak. >> yes. hes doing it in the form of a tro, which is our fastest form of injunctive relief. you are going to the court and sayin...

You got to give him so much credit. we got a lot of commentary on your appearance last night. youve taken it a step further that this raid of the presidents private attorney ano his office at home and he was staying in a hotel i guess because of construction, that you say it violated a constitutional right. y >> you can just go and sweep up all lawyer-client privileged information and give it over to some fbi agent or a low ranking u.s. attorney and say go through it. the stuff that isnt privile...

Other president has done. you have to give him so much credit. we got a lot of commentary on your appearance last night. youve taken it a step further that the raid of the residence private attorney and his office at home and he was staying in a hotel i guess because of construction, that you say it violated a constitutional right. >> you can just go and sweep up all lawyer-client privileged information and give it over to some fbi agent or a low ranking u.s. attorney and say go through it. the ...