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Profiting off his ties to people in power. And companies that hired him like at t and novartis pony up for access, something that his boss railed against his candidate. I know the game. I understand it. So many people have come up, lobbyists. I said i dont want money from lobbyi lobbyists. The system we have is broken. A guy like bush, all these people are controlled by peemt who give them the money. It is time to drain the swamp in washington, d. C. Thats the best Case Scenario of what cohen ha...

Congress. sources saying attorneys want an opportunity to claim executive privilege over information drawn from documents and interviews with white house officials. that sure to set up a political battle with congressional democrats and it could also lead to the perception that president trump is trying to keep information from the american public. theres lots to discuss. so joining me now, shimon prokupecz, garrett graff. garrett is the author of "the threat matrix: inside robert muellers fbi a...

Confidential report to the attorney general is expected any day now. so hes going to have a lot of discretion in deciding what hes going to share, what hes not going to share, even with lawmakers. what are you -- what are you going to do and democrats, others in your committee, whatever, to ensure that the american public learn about whatever the findings are in muellers investigation in the report? >> you know, i spent the last two years with many of my colleagues going across the country as pe...

Challenged in court? >> absolutely. and id expect there to be a very lengthy legal challenge. and, frankly, i think thats a loser for the trump administration no matter how that goes. in other words, if the courts say that trump and his attorneys can review this in advance and keep information from congress, well, congress is -- i think that will set off their suspicions. theyre going to want to know what did trump and his administration think was so damaging that they didnt want congress to kno...

Claim executive privilege, a claim that would set up a political battle over the perception that president trump is trying to shield information from the public. lets discuss now. congressman eric swalwell is here. he serves on the house intelligence and judiciary committees. good evening to you. thank you to coming on. >> of course. >> the attorney general bill barr is going to have an opportunity to review this, decide if it comes out. do you think the white house is going to claim executive p...

Department of justice. her detail at the special counsels office is over, essentially. shes done there. so whatever it is that shes been working on, shes going to take with her, which i think is an important point because what that tells us is that even when mueller is done, whenever that may be, it could be soon, could be in a week, could be longer, there are parts of this investigation that are going to continue and that are going to live on by people like this prosecutor. and thats something ...

Fair. they want it to be fair. do you expect the white house to cooperate? >> no. >> at all? do you think thats just lip service? >> we have to be realistic. they have not cooperated on a single thing as it relates to what russia did to attack our elections. and they have shown no interest in protecting us from future attacks. and so, no, im fully prepared for them not to cooperate. i do expect republicans, though, in congress to cooperate. they just went on record last week, 420 of us to 0 sayi...

Its interesting to see how those will hold up in court. >> garrett, you say this is yet another example of the trump administration acting like theyre guilty. is this approach doing them more hard than good, do you think? >> yeah, i mean, i think its notable how little of the presidents public defense for this entire two-year period has been "i did nothing wrong, i have nothing to hide, i welcome a full airing of all of the relevant facts." which is something you have virtually never heard from ...

Cooperated in it. in the interest of the country i think its time to wrap it up. >> the vice president sntd the only one interested in ending muellers probe prematurely. wait till you hear what devin nunes is up to today. editor in chief at the law fair blog and betsy woodruff political reporter with the daily beast. let me start with you, dan. he subpoenaed the department of justice for information on a person that the department said if it was revealed would essentially reveal sources and meth...

Think its time to wrap it up. >> the vice president sntd the only one interested in ending muellers probe prematurely. wait till you hear what devin nunes is up to today. editor in chief at the law fair blog and betsy woodruff political reporter with the daily beast. let me start with you, dan. he subpoenaed the department of justice for information on a person that the department said if it was revealed would essentially reveal sources and methods and nunes said no, no, no, i was never interest...