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CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto August 26, 2021 13:33:00

trump including his wife and children. it will rest with the current president and administration. cnn legal national security analyst joins us now to discuss. good to have you this morning asha. so, president does this all the time, right, tries to block access to documents, to testimony, et cetera. can he block this access? >> well, jim, it's going to be an uphill battle for him this time. so, executive privilege is not a personal privilege. it is a separation of powers, principle, that protects the executive branch from congressional or judicial overreach. and so the privilege itself is held by the sitting president. now, even so, because it's about the office, typically presidents want to, you know, keep the scope of that privilege as broad as possible. they don't want to create precedence that could be used against them, for example, or people in their party in the future. but the department of justice in

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