Transcripts for CNN Don Lemon Tonight 20211019 07:03:00 : vi

CNN Don Lemon Tonight October 19, 2021 07:03:00

tomorrow. so he can't just claim, you know, some blanket privilege. am i correct? >> correct. and of course even if there were a valid privilege that he wanted to assert, if he made the information public, he loses the ability to assert the privilege. imagine if it was an attorney-client privilege where obviously communication between the attorney and client would be preserved. you could not be able to disclose it. however, if you all of a sudden go out and say things, you can't now try to put the genie back in the bottle. even more so, don, executive privilege is something you can't just assert as a get out of subpoena free card. you have to actually still show up. you could choose to try to argue that you have a valid privilege that allows you to not answer certain questions, but you can't just not appear. and more importantly, remember, every conversation with a president or an attorney is not going to be automatically privileged. it has to actually have -- be under the umbrella as to why we even have executive privilege. in an advisory capacity, having

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