Privilege Doesnt Apply News Today

Antipathy toward Ginni Thomas is no basis for relativistic standards or a manufactured recusal rule that seems ripe for political abuse.

Client-attorney confidentiality and a justice department attorney for 40 years likely a crime committed and the privilege doesnt apply and the judge went through and accepted that argument. maybe its jill banks are right with an investigation and its happening quietly. we dont know about it. to return to your question but thats unlikely. i dont want to see an alvin bragg situation where trump runs out the clock and taken advantage of cautiousness on the part of government officials because the s...

Better not testify, in effect, and that witness said a judge has to tell me what to do. now thats whats happening here. do you support this white house effort to block these witnesses from testifying? >> i absolutely believe that the president has executive privilege and he has the right to identify who those people are within his administration or who have served in his administration whom he wants to exercise executive privilege over. if you look at it, and this is what frustrates me about ada...

Phone calls, because its never pleasant to see the sausage being made behind the scenes. still, what are the chances that well ever know whats on those recordings? >> well, if they contain evidence that prosecutors can use, if they ever charge michael cohen, then you may very well hear them played in open court. whats really puzzling is that with regard to at least the tapes in which president trump may have had any claims of privilege, it looks like his legal team waived that privilege, which, ...

Might find that the immunity -- sorry, the privilege, theres an exception called the crime/fraud exception where if its showing evidence of a crime, the privilege doesnt apply. it might be a p.r. move that they didnt want that statement being made and are letting it go, but it is odd that they havent asserted the privilege given what a big deal they made about the seizure of many of these documents and items. >> joe lockhart, you know p.r., theres an issue of getting it out early on your own ter...

Considering to invoke executive privilege to block him from testifying. is that even possible and how would it work? >> wolf, theres two big problems with trying to invoke executive privilege here. number one is james comey is a private citizen. he does not work for the president anymore, and so the president would essentially have to send in a lawyer to court to get this done, to order comey officially not to testify, a pretty big and unprecedented move and courts have routinely found that if t...

The president which the president did, he demanded basically begged the president if you will to issue this executive order protecting, executive privilege and the district court and court of appeals are all bound by the supreme court precedent you mentioned in the nixon case. there is precedent from the d.c. circuit because this is where these issues come up, sean. when it is a cover up the privilege doesnt apply. this is what the american people need to be asking the themselves. what is it in ...

President did, he demanded basically begged the president if you will to issue this executive order protecting, executive privilege and the district court and court of appeals are all bound by the supreme court precedent you mentioned in the nixon case. there is precedent from the d.c. circuit because this is where these issues come up, sean. when it is a cover up the privilege doesnt apply. this is what the american people need to be asking the themselves. what is it in these documents that the...