considering to invoke executive privilege to block him from testifying. is that even possible and how would it work? wolf, there s 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 there s any sort of xhl or governmental misconduct then the privilege doesn t apply. the second issue here is that there are real questions about whether the president even waived executive privilege by repeatedly talking about his conversations with comey, effectively opening the door to an entire line inquiry here. mark preston, from a political perspective, what outcome would be worse for the president, director comey delivering some damaging testify
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 doesn t apply. this is what the american people need to be asking the themselves. what is it in these documents that they do not want the committee to see? remember that eric holder said he was going to go over the documents in private and would at least cover the details of what happened since february 4. what happens is the letter nine pages saying mr. president please protect me i m about to get in real trouble here because the truth is about to come out. the truth will ultimately come out but now they have a political issue that is huge. sean: he has made false statements and had to
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 doesn t apply. this is what the american people need to be asking the themselves. what is it in these documents that they do not want the committee to see? remember that eric holder said he was going to go over the documents in private and would at least cover the details of what happened since february 4. what happens is the letter nine pages saying mr. president please protect me i m about to get in real trouble here because the truth is about to come out. the truth will ultimately come out but now they have a political issue that is huge. sean: he has made false statements and had to admit them on two ope s