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Keriks latest maneuvers in dealing with the 1/6 committee. what is this particular trump ally trying to accomplish with his, shall we call it, half-hearted cooperation with the committee. >> so my read of it, actually is, he -- it packages a lot of genuine cooperation, where hes actually provided, as you pointed out, this very substantiative document an their strategic communications plan in the ten-day blitz before january 6th, talked about which partners they were working with, put a lot of na...

On the house committee investigating the january 6th attack, bernard kerik, former new york city police commissioner, has turned over a slew of documents to the panel that describe efforts to unearth evidence of election fraud. kerik also provided a, quote, privilege log, describing materials that he declined to provide to the committee, one such withheld document is titled "draft letter from potus" to seize evidence in the interest of national security for the 2020 elections. this is coming as ...

Documents saying explicitly that theyre not privileged, its sort of game over. there is apparently an entire category of documents where meadows lawyers submitted whats called a privilege log. they identified the documents and set forth what sort of privilege they were asserting in those documents. so lets leave that aside for the moment, and talk just about what was turned over. it was turned over without an assertion of privilege. at some point apparently on the same day that meadows book is p...

There are no back seize on privilege. and once you have turned over documents saying that explicitly they are not privileged, its sort of game or ever. there is apparently in entire documents that were meadowss lawyer submitted what is called a privilege log. they identified the documents and set forth what type of privilege they were asserting in those documents. lets leave that aside for the moment, and talk just about what was turned over. it was turned over without insertion of privilege whi...

Ignoring these message. he thought it was a prank. why would the white house clhie of staff trying to reach out with him using the email. especially that whole thing with hillary clinton. >> emails and this private server, what gives here? >> it turns out it was really meadows so the committee has gone for the private accounts as well, and, you know, meadows has attempted to claim privilege, even as he turned over a lot of this stuff, he turned over a privilege log. these are the documents im no...

>> emails and this private server, what gives here? >> it turns out it was really meadows so the committee has gone for the private accounts as well, and, you know, meadows has attempted to claim privilege, even as he turned over a lot of this stuff, he turned over a privilege log. these are the documents im not going to turn over because they are privileged. in a privilege log it shows the email, who it was sent to, who was ccd, what was the subject line of the email is and when it was sent. so...

Allies for the past couple of years, about mueller being able to do his job without interference, what is that worth if muellers findings can essentially be edited by the white house? >> well, its not worth much, if thats the case. and i think, first of all, weve got to understand that executive privilege is not going to reach back to the campaign and protect events that occurred during the campaign. its not going to reach the transition, either. it will only really relate to potentially activit...

Privilege log, where theyre explaining what theyre excluding and why theyre seeking to exclude it. and executive privilege breaks down to a number of areas. is it communications? is it attorney/client privilege? is it a document that they feel they cant release? all of that will have to be detailed. anderson, this is really no surprise. this is kind of standard procedure for something, a document this hot or anything thats going to go to the congress. so i really am not surprised to learn this a...

Memoir. are you concerned you are asking for documents that could interfere with the mueller investigation? >> really, were not about interfering with the mueller investigation. what were about is doing proper oversight and transparency. its been consistent there. we have been consistent for nine months. in doing that, its critically important that we get the documents. i can tell you, most of the documents, if theres a legitimate reason on why they shouldnt give it, give us a privilege log and ...

What does that expose him to? >> well look, first of all, weve got to unpack this a little bit because first of all if the reporting is that there is a recording and if that recording, remember, there was a special master, they put a judge in the mix here, thats what was asked for when they seized stuff from michael cohens office, if there is a whats called a privilege log, it would list every entry of something taken that they claim was privileged, the special master would then rule yes, it can...