well, we ll try to negotiate. we ll try everything else first, but if we have to, yes, we will certainly issue subpoenas to get that information. and you re going to be willing to take that all the way up to the supreme court if you have to? absolutely. by the way, the we are already hearing that the president may want to claim executive privilege on some of this. and but the fact is, he has no right to claim executive privilege on any evidence of wrongdoing, executive privilege cannot shield evidence of wrongdoing and that was made very clear by the 9-0 decision of the supreme court in the nixon case where they ordered the tapes revealed, even though those tapes were personal conversations with the president and some of his advisers. executive privilege cannot be used to shield wrongdoing. how long are you going to give the justice department to turn it over? i can t give you a specific answer to that. days, weeks, months? can you give a general it won t be months.
that made you know about it. greta: always, there is an element, people in politic, back and forth on all things. sure. greta: congress has the right to ask for documents, don t get documents, you have a right to subpoena. you expect that the subpoena will be answered. and the president of the united states has a right to assert executive privilege. but at the same time, you can t do so to shield wrongdoing. have you to provide a log that shows why each document should be privileged greta: but what the justice department will say is that these documents are deliberative process and that follows within the umbrellav executive privilege. it is not just conversations between the president and his aides, but it extends out farther. that s what they say. that s a harder thing to prove. have you to prove that with each document. i know about it because during the u.s. attorney scanl scandal in the bush administration when seven u.s. attorneys were asked to resign, democrats on th
greta: always, there is an element, people in politic, back and forth on all things. sure. greta: congress has the right to ask for documents, don t get documents, you have a right to subpoena. you expect that the subpoena will be answered. and the president of the united states has a right to assert executive privilege. but at the same time, you can t do so to shield wrongdoing. have you to provide a log that shows why each document should be privileged greta: but what the justice department will say is that these documents are deliberative process and that follows within the umbrellav executive privilege. it is not just conversations between the president and his aides, but it extends out farther. that s what they say. that s a harder thing to prove. have you to prove that with each document. i know about it because during the u.s. attorney scanl scandal in the bush administration when seven u.s. attorneys were asked to resign, democrats on the committee at the time went