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And cosh batel, are engaging with the committee. and the committee now is firinging back at bannon. theyre accusing him of hiding behind big privilege assertions and lawmakers are saying that they will act swiftly against anyone who refuses to comply with the subpoenas. theyre including potential criminal contempt and could apply to bannon. the committee is not referencing anything pertaining to the former deputy chief of staff. we dont know if hes been served or working with the committee and d...

Under pressure to fulfill a campaign promise, the biden administration plans to disclose some documents that show connections between families of saudi arabia and the hijackers that carried out the attacks. in court filings, the fbi submitted a letter to two federal judges overseeing the action that reads in part, the fbi has decided to review its prior privilege assertions to identify additional information appropriate for disclosure. the fbi will disclose such file information on a rolling bas...

Privilege assertions i think weve ever seen any modern president make. they even seem to think they have the absolute right to stop anyone they want to from testifying. josh dossy wrote up this reporting from "the washington post." he says white house aides say they have a few advantages. many hearings have fizzled, time is running out. they say theyre not feeling the heat by not responding to interviews or documents. democrats split. this is the latest on their inquiry. is he right? >> i think ...

See it. its not up to donald trump. we have a right to see that, and that gets us into the obstruction of our congressional fact-finding function. >> theres a "washington post" article. this has to do with corey lewandowski. it has to do with the fact that they have turned over almost no documentation in your impeachment inquiry. theyve asserted the broadest privilege assertions i think weve ever seen any modern president make. they even seem to think that they have the absolute right to stop an...

The procedural rules you cant completely do this, they have to not engage they have to try to shut it down as quickly and as early as possible there seemed to be a lot of debate going on right there in the moment about privilege i mean, this is a bogus privilege thats being asserted. so either they should have said from the beginning that theyre just going to let him make these bogus privilege assertions, or theyre going to hold him in contempt, one or the other there seemed to be a lot of debat...

The limits of what we thought were the powers of chairmen in this process, because they are abusing this hearing process and there really isnt a way to get them to behave the way theyre supposed to in these hearings. >> well, i think to the extent possible, and i realize under the procedural rules you cant completely do this, they have to not engage right? they have to try to shut it down as quickly and as early as possible there seemed to be a lot of debate going on about -- right there in the ...

>> on the privilege issue, the only thing that makes sense is the special master signaled to trump and cohen, that she was going to find that this recording falls under the crime fraud exception to attorney/client privilege. rather than endure a finding like that. >> which would be catastrophic. >> politically and publicly devastating, she gave them the opportunity to with draw the privilege, their privilege assertions -- >> that is the first time that someone has made sense. that makes sense to...

Recording falls under the crime fraud exception to attorney/client privilege. rather than endure a finding like that. >> which would be catastrophic. >> politically and publicly devastating, she gave them the opportunity to with draw the privilege, their privilege assertions -- >> that is the first time that someone has made sense. that makes sense to me. we dont know if that is the case, but that is your conjecture. >> it is all conjecture. now that we have heard it, it doesnt add up. >> it is ...

Was more exculpatory than the other ones. and that they may be able to be a bit more worried about the other tapes and that was one they were okay with releasing. >> so this is a key point. they have control over waiving privilege. we dont know, i just want to be clear here, we dont know the total universe of tapes that may exist, right? we just know that 12 are in fbi possession, in investigators hands. we dont know if theres others theyve essentially blocked because of privilege assertions. >>...

Theyve essentially blocked because of privilege assertions. >> thats right. we know they have a vast amount of information. they raided cohens apartment and they raided a hotel where he was staying and his offices in may. and its really taken them a long time. thats why they had to call on this special master to go through everything to see what could be used. so the universe is vast. another thing this does tell us, though, chris, is if we look at the timing of this, michael cohen was recording...