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>> sure. i would hope that it would not be necessary to use subpoena power to get the attorney general to appear before the committee. we want to see the full report. and if necessary well use subpoena power to get that too. >> are you worried that executive privilege could be exercised if some of the unknowns, the inside of the report? >> well, the president could try to exercise executive privilege but wont be successful. it must be asserted by the president personally and up as the nixon case...

>> i hope it wouldnt be necessary before the committee we also want to see the full report and if necessary will use that power to get that. >> the president could try to exercise but he will not be successful the executive privilege must be exerted by the president and with the next in case in front of the supreme court was decided nine / nothing executive privilege cannot be used to heighten wrongdoing. and with those personal conversations were ordered by the court so i dont think executive p...

Nothing back. new this hour, a potential battle brewing over executive privilege as the attorney general is expected to release the top findings from that mueller report any moment now. the chair of the judiciary committee where impeachment proceedings start warning the white house not to try to prevent parts of the mueller report from being released. >> i do not believe it exists here at all because as we learned from the nixon tapes case, executive privilege cannot hide or be used to hide wron...

Here on capitol hill, as youve heard on a number of shows, republicans suggesting they believe the president is vindicated and heartened by the fact there were no additional indictments when mueller announced he concluded the investigation. democrats are using scope and transparency. they are reminding people whatever the mueller report may find or not find with criminal wrongdoing by the president or top aids, his charge was was li question of collusion and obstruction of justice and there are ...

Have a look at this report to be able to exert executive privilege. there are two ways you can do that about national security or the private deliberations. the concern that lawmakers have and the house judiciary chairman jerry nadler said earlier on "state of the union" that they cant do it if theyre trying to hide some kind of wrongdoing. so there is a lot of tension there. and there is a historical precedent, republican and democratic presidents have exerted executive privilege over the years...

Report from the associated press about the number of americans who named hair new pets after bob mueller. howie: i hate when anybody in the public light predicts indictments. richard, even if mueller found no criminal collusion or wrongdoing by donald trump personally. are conservative commentators justified in portraying his attacks on law enforcement as a necessary part of this debate? richard: thats interesting. for a very, very long time it was democrats and people on the liberal side of the...

People, thats behind the pardon. its a political decision but im not sure that its in his interest to do that now. its kind of like threatening the good news that he already has but using discretion for somebody like manafort who again did commit crimes according to jury and guilty plea, they may not have reflected directly on the president but doesnt mean that he didnt commit crimes and deserves some sort of punishment. >> just in from house judiciary chairman jerry nadler who has now tweeted t...

Seen publicly so far. a summary explanation of what the special counsels team did not do, because of what they did not find. it will not include, i would imagine, detailed information about the so-called spin-off cases to other districts that are ongoing. simply because those are ongoing cases. but, you know, congress, i think its safe to say will not rest until it gets enough detail to understand exactly what the mueller team found with respect to the president. why the president and others wer...

And other democrats including the house speaker have talked about with transparency. if the justice department is not going to hand it over to you fully and say it can be fully put out to the american public, are you absolutely sure that youll issue a subpoena? >> well try to negotiate and try everything else first. if we have to, yes, well issue subpoenas to get that information. >> youre going to be willing to take that all the way to the supreme court if you have to? >> absolutely. by the way...

Privilege as the attorney general is expected to rerees the finding from the mueller report any time now. impeachment ro menment processe congress and warning about releasing this. >> i dont do not believe it existing here as all because as we learned from the nixon tape case executive privilege cannot be used to hide wrongdoing. in that case the supreme court 9-0 ordered that all of the claims of executive privilege be overridden. the president may try to assert it, hide things behind it but i ...