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Public. jerry nadler, the house judiciary chairman, made the case today on "state of the union" and his counterpart on the other side said, hold on, justice department, maybe you should think first before providing all this information. >> well, well try to negotiate and well try everything else first, but if we have to, yes, well certainly issue subpoenas to get that information. >> and youre going to be willing to take that all the way up to the supreme court if you have to? >> absolutely. >> ...

That said, do you believe that the president has the right to claim executive privilege in preventing the release of some parts of the mueller report? >> well, alex, its hard to answer that question without seeing the contents of the report but i think in general we should be very skeptical about the presidents ability to invoke executive privilege sort of rote tretroactively. some of the information was collected from other sources the president would have no claim of executive privilege. you c...

I was -- >> thats t. i want to make sure viewers see it, not just you, doug. heres what he said. im going to read it. i do not believe it exists here at all as we learned from the nixon tapes case executive privilege cannot be used to hide wrongdoing. in that case the supreme court 9-0 ordered that all the claims of executive privilege will be overridden. the president may try to assert it, try to hide things behind it, but i dont think thats right or will be successful. >> he states the legal s...

Trump. what do you want to see happen the moment we hear more. >> i think the american people need to be patient and not rush to judgment. this is a sitting american president and people are louding serious allegations. attorney general barr * should be given the benefit of the doubt. we need to give these people the benefit of the doubt and the time to complete their report. lets not rush to judgment and speculate on whether there has been wrongdoing. lets sit back and wait for the results to b...

Investigation has got a very narrow bandwidth. so they are only allowed to look at certain things or the attorney or in this distance, the deputy general rod rosenstein gave them to look into. once the president leaves office will face the greatest exposure. >> julian, i know you say even without this report, even without the findings, there is really damage that has already been done to this president. what is at the top of that list that you see? >> number one are the other investigations that...

You should not hide the evidence because that makes it a cover up. congress needs the evidence to make judgments. >> let me ask you about that. the department attorney general rod rosenstein made clear he wants to promote the disclosure of information that would unfairly tarnish people not accused of crimes. democrats were pretty upset in 2016 when fbi director james comey publicly accused hillary clinton of wrong doing, but said she shouldnt be indicted. why should allegations that dont reach a...

Maintains that a sitting president cannot be indicted to then withhold evidence of wrongdoing from congress is to convert justice department policy into the means for a cover-up. anything less than full transparency would raise serious questions about whether the department of justice policy is being use ds as a pretext for a cover-up of misconduct. strong words from those democratic committee chairs demanding not only the report itself but the underlying evidence to be handed over to the releva...

Disclosure of information that would unfairly tarnish people who are not charged with crimes. but we just heard you saying that people should see the bir report, that evidence underlying it. democrats were upset in 2016 when then-fbi director james comey publicly accused hillary clinton of wrongdoing but then said she shouldnt be indicted. why shouldnt allegations that dont reach an indictment threshold, talking not about the president but on everybody else, stay confidential in. >> well, becaus...

Mr. moeller to come testify. they will ask mr. bar, how did he reach the conclusion he did about obstruction of justice if the special counsel was not able to do so himself. he. >> everybody in washington has been tweeting about this all day if our control room can pull up the tweet from jim jordan. hes a republican congressman who is quite often the support of the president. he said no collusion, no obstruction, its time to move on. do you get the sense thats going to happen. >> you may see two...

Judiciary, oversight, finance, foreign affairs and ways and means. quote, the justice department must now release to the public the entire report submitted by special counsel mueller to the attorney general to ensure congress can discharge its constitutional responsibilities, we also expect the underlying evidence uncovered during the course of the investigation will be turned over to the relevant committees of congress upon question. the underlying evidence. to be clear if the special counsel h...