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Sxat particularly with respect to chairman leahy questioning earlier, if some documents hes looking for have now been protect by nonassertion assertion of executive privilege, we have a problem, it is a continuing problem in the committee. weve had other witnesses come and do nonassertion assertions of executive privilege, so im sorry to drag committee business before you, but i think it is important we try to get this right. >> can i make one aden dum based on my experience of time, i dont thin...

Awkward to get factual answers and interest out of the department right now. >> and to that point, one of the issues that i was very interested to see raised today, i didnt expect to hear it until it came up, was the implication that the department of justice has not been forthcoming for the cooperations and various investigations that are into the russian attack. is it true that the justice department has been holding back in terms of requests of information from you, from your committee and ot...

Executive privilege. and it has to end with the president actually asserting it. and theyve never asked the president to assert it on anything, and they continue to refuse to answer the questions as if he had or as if they are in the study period they are teeing up their analysis on whether to assert it or not. but months have gone by. its way pastime for that. over and over again, its statements that dont seem to add up with what we know the facts to be, or the inability, unwillingness or incap...

Assertion of executive privilege. theres a quit distinct pattern youre supposed to follow with executive privilege and has to end in the president asserting it. and they have never asked the president to assert it on anything and yet they continue to refuse to answer the questions as if he had or as if they were in the sort of study period during which they were, you know, teeing up the analysis of whether to assert it or not but months have gone by. way past time for that. so, you know, over an...

Effort to prevent further interference and repeated stonewall of nonassertions of executive privilege, its awkward to interest on this subject out of the department of justice right now. >> to that point, one of the issues that i was very interested to see raised today and didnt expect to hear it until it came up was the implication that the department of justice has not been forthcoming with documents, information and cooperation for the various investigations happening into the russian attack....