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Get access to stuff that we didnt get. they have a hammer of sorts to compel testimony that congress doesnt have. and in a criminal grand jury investigation, if there is a privilege assertion or rejection to a subpoena, that is immediately litigated by the chief judge of the district in which the grand jury sets. then it goes immediately on a motion to stay the district court order to the court of appeals. we didnt have the ability to move quickly through privilege assertions and adjudications. ...

Compelling, beyond what we found. he is going to have access to new information, beyond privilege assertion or people that refuse to come in to the select committee are going to have to now go in front of the grand jury i think all of that is going to make an even stronger case than the one on which we based our criminal referrals accountability in this country has to matter. the law applies the same whether youre an accused drug seller on the streets of new york city or the former president of ...

Any privilege assertion, its a qualified privilege. the protection of private communications are weighed against the compelling need for the information. congressional oversight is a compelling need, but it isnt as compelling as a grand jury investigation. if theres criminal culpability, that that overcomes privilege assertion. theres a stronger predicate in the balance of account witties that a judge does in a qualified privilege inquiry. theres a procedural benefit that the special counsel has...

Privilege. we had to go through a civil process, pleadings, weeks and weeks and witnesses knew they could weigh this out. we were on a clock. so they could make a really clearly baseless privilege assertion and we werent able to get a judge fast enough to rule on it in time before we finished our work. jack smith is not burdened by that procedural handicap and can get rulings quickly. i dont know anything, but hes already gotten such rulings with respect to cipollone and they may have provided t...

My guess is, nicolle, that the special counsel will also ask her about the presidents statements before january 6th about the election. he was told repeatedly, even acknowledged, perhaps to her or others, that he lost, which makes the intent to disrupt the joint session by continuing to lie about the election a stronger case. so special counsel will be ask asking about a whole series of events that give a window into the presidents and other close enablers or co-conspirators into the collective ...

The presidency, writ large. so the point that hes making in this sort of urging of caution or at least urging of a more thorough review of all documents to be produced, to determine whether they could assert privilege over it, is if they do hand over documents without asserting privilege, that could be sort of subject to a privilege assertion, that it would compromise not just donald trumps ability to assert privilege in this investigation, future parts of this investigation, or potentially othe...

He might in the future, what was surprising, its the same thing that happened with coats, and nsa director not answering. not because there was any assertion of privilege. so were seeing an emergence of systematic pattern of quasi executive privilege. i was talking, said previous officials have dunk this in previous 5d manages, more disturbing. the mechanism if congress wants to push back, they cant just invite witnesses to come and testify, they have to subpoena them. they are in a position to ...

Welcome back to "the ed show." republicans are still creating a lot of nonsense in their war against president obama and the fast and furious standoff. congressman darrell issa has sent a letter to the president of the united states challenging the presidents assertion of executive privilege. your privilege assertion means one of two things, mr. president. either you or most of your senior advisers were involved in managing operation fast and furious and the fallout from it or you are asserting ...

Would break down the points of why the presidents executive privilege claim are either overboard or simply wrong and now weve got the letter and weve got some excerpts from it. >> heres one of the excerpts and its a two page letter so ill give you the most probably substantial part. he says "your privilege assertion means one of two things. either you or your most senior advisors were involved in managing operation fast & furious and the fallout from it including the false february 4, 2011, lett...

Letter to president obama himself demanding answers as to whether he was involved in the fast & furious investigation or just obstructing justice. kelly wright heard about this, got dressed really quick and has more. in fact, hes just about done with his report. he is done! kelly. >> actually, im reading the letter, brian. good morning to you, brian, anna and steve. you know, with this letter, republican congressman darrell issa who, of course, is the chairman of the house oversight committee is...