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Mil milgram. professor dershowitz, this reporting that muellers team is willing to reduce the number of questions that ask about potential obstruction, do you this thats going to be enough to get the president to sit down? >> well, its a very smart move by mueller because its not about quantity, its about quality and substance. if they can just get the president to testify about what his motive was in firing comey or about why he spoke to comey about being -- going soft on flynn, those are poten...

You dont have to answer questions about your intent. we have a very good privilege argument that will probably prevail in front of a court. if you had the right and the power to fire comey, then you cannot be questioned about why you did it any more than senator or a congressman or a judge can be questioned about why they rendered a decision or a vote. so i think in the end, its going to be very unlikely that the lawyers will lose this battle and the president will actually sit down and expose h...

Court. but youre supposed to make a case of why it is so necessary to withhold the information. the committee has a clear jurisdictional basis to ask for this testimony. while i dont believe that there is prima facia evidence of obstruction of justice yet. there are investigating the possibility of that crime. so i think a court finds his public statements to be worrisome. in fairness to the white house there is obviously more to the conversation nas occurred between a president and a person tha...

Prima facie evidence of obstruction of justice yet, they are investigating the possibility of that crime. so i think a court would find his public statements to be worrisome. now, in fairness to the white house, theres obviously more to these conversations that occur between a president and a person that was then the fbi director. that does happen to fall in an area of executive privilege. but ive never seen a privilege argument succeed on this type of record. and i have to also say, presidents ...

Should be a privilege and jobs are important. what about the working poor who get up and go to work and still dont have health care? thats an important issue. >> david: republicans need to recruit her to to run for mayo. >> eric: we dont want to lose her. we want to keep her. we need more like current government. the writer versus the privilege argument. if it is in the constitution, its our right. nowhere in the constitution does that say you have a privilege of getting health care. john robert...

Sylvester over what happens next, what is the next step? >> they set a whole bunch much dates that are going to come out for a lot of different things. a week from now august 9th, in the afternoon, they are going to talk about the unceiling of the records, or the unceiling of the documents i should say. they are also going to do a status hearing on the privilege argument relating to the notebook, and then that on august 16th will be the hearing on the privilege of the notebook. the prosecution a...

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