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>> yeah. >> the privilege exists and it has since george washington, and it should. on this im very sympathetic to the trump white house, having been a white house official. presidents have got to have a right to communicate and deliberate in private. but its a qualified privilege. its only the presidents to assert. it does not belong to corey lewandowski who has never worked a day in the white house, the former campaign manager for president trump. it doesnt belong to ms. hicks or mr. bannon, w...

It should. on this im very sympathetic to the trump white house, having been a white house official. presidents have got to have a right to communicate and to deliberate in private. but its a qualified privilege. its only the presidents to assert. it does not belong to corey lewandowski who has never worked a day in the white house, the former campaign manager for president trump. it doesnt belong to ms. hicks or to mr. bannon, who apparently tried to get out -- had successfully gotten out of te...

House investigators up on capitol hill. hes not going to have that protection when he talks to robert muellers team. but i do wonder, he has invoked executive privilege when hes talking to house investigators when it comes to his time on the transition, not just his time in the white house. does he have that protection under executive privilege? >> no, and actually, of course its the president who has to assert the executive privilege, its not bannons to assert. the president has to tell bannon,...

Now that hes outside, it doesnt change the status of the conversations while he was inside. leland: got it. >> because the presidents to assert. unless he had a total change of heart and became an enemy and sought to hurt the president, i dont think it matters at all for the investigation. leland: all right. bob driscoll, stand by for a second. this is from the presidents twitter feed. its raining today, sometimes the president plays golf on saturdays. hes not golfing, but tweeting, if a new hea...

>> yesterday attorney general sessions, in deliberative process, not necessarily well known to the public, a number of privileges, attorney-client privilege, executive privilege, deliberative process privilege, this is not anything new, not something the team concocted prior to these hearings. eric holder, and the obama administration, the deliberative process privilege on many occasions, one was when president obama appointed richard corker to director of the financial protection bureau, questi...

Safety. and grant them asylum. in this case chen guangcheng wanted to, officially, stay in china. he wanted to have safety. he wanted to be relocated and have a chance to study law and to continue his activism and strike to expand chinese civil society. now, obviously, that arrangement is collapsing, and, my understanding, my latest information is that the united states officials have tried to meet with chen guangcheng to assert, in fact, he has had this containing of heart, but have been preven...

The house, senate would be under tremendous pressure. president trump has no need to do that. he didnt do anything wrong. >> nevertheless, giuliani has contued to assert increasingly lewdious hypotheticals claiming the president could have shot james comey and still not be indicted for it. even under those circumstances, according to giuliani, the only penalty would be a political one. quote, impeach him and then you can do whatever you want to do to him. asked today if the president considers h...