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Witness, theyve held back. they havent either showed up or the white house has claimed executive privilege. what theyre trying to do is go around that. to poll people who never worked in the white house but were close to the trump campaign who can speak to these instances. but heres the problem. another committee has already tried this. the oversight committee actually called a witness a couple of weeks ago who never worked in the white house but advised on the census. and even spoke personally ...

Fifth. think about what that is saying. someone who is to uphold the integrity of the office of the president, i may or may not have an issue here and the presidents comments about those who take the fifth. but in reality hes given so much information and over 30 hours he spent with robert mueller and the president was quick to say i did not stop that and i want him to be forthcoming and whether it will come to pass is a different story. but one would expect even given john dean on monday, the b...

Actually in this report, what barr shares, and he is really under a lot of pressure. >> heres the question from democrats and im just hearing from a legal source which is this source said keep in mind 80% or so of the mueller documents are grand jury materials, and you cant disclose grand jury materials, so theyre not going to get that. some percentage are classified. maybe theyll get those, and the rest may be subject to executive privilege. so there is not just the privilege issue that you hav...

Mentioned about what congress is doing, what congressional oversight, is about his business dealings and things outside of muellers purview so there are a lost potential problems coming up for trump as the house continues these investigations into his finances and his business. so for now, i think back to your question about how this invigorated energy is going to play for him politically, his base loves it and he was in front of a friendly crowd at c-pac but well see for the results of the inve...

. what it does do is when you hav a platform, when you have an opportunity to talk about the issues whether they can happen yesterday or in the past instea of just pushing it off and saying its no big deal,. >> eric dyson the political analyst had an interesting comment about the privilege issue and the blackface issue a well. take this shows the vast races of an consciousness that many white people have and are allowed to have. we talk about white privilege this is one. the fact that you dont h...

But what it does do is make insensitivity. when you have a platform, an opportunity to talk about these issues whether they happened yesterday or in the past, if necessary to do it instead of just pushing it off and saying its no big deal. >> laura: eric dyson political analyst had an interesting comment about the privilege issue and the blackface issue, lets watch. >> this shows the vast reaches of ignorance, unconsciousness that many white people have and are allowed to have. when we talk abou...

Foundationally whats ahead of him. the issue, however, is that relates as i said to people who were part of his cabinet. it wouldnt necessarily relate to an interpreter or somebody who spoke to this person with a third person in the room meaning vladimir putin. it goes away in terms of the privileges. like if you had attorney/client privilege and you had someone who was neither the attorney or the client in the room. the privilege issue goes away. now its the idea of the other side of the coin. ...

Testify what was said. how likely is that? >> well, you know, its likely in the sense that its like an executive privilege. executive privilege is essentially you have to keep secret and confidential in private communications between the president of the united states and people who are part of his cabinet. you want that because you want the president to have candid conversations to get the advice that steve was talking about to be able to be briefed and be able to understand foundationally what...

Now? >> its possible that mueller could want to talk to him again, although i was astounded when i heard how much time he spent with them. i suspect they pretty much covered everything from a to z with him already, and most likely, theyre done, unless new leads develop that they have to follow. i do think that the privilege issue in terms of his executive privilege doesnt go directly to the president, would still be there. there could be an argument that he waived it, but i think if there was a ...

Is better to keep them in discrete buckets but we really dont know. >> all right, carol leonnig thank you for being with me. daniel goldman and legal analyst barbara mckwaede. i dont understand what michael cohen is doing from a legal perspective. this is not the way i would handle it. you guys are people that used to be prosecutors, what do you make of what is going on? >> on the privilege issue, the only thing that makes sense is the special master signaled to trump and cohen, that she was goi...