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Repercussions. he doesn t explain which federal law that they would violate. we have asked his office. his office examine explained that. and he says this. this threat got a lot of attention. he said if companies choose to violate federal law, a republican majority will not forget and will stand with americans to hold them fully accountable. now, that is a serious threat because republicans stand a very good chance of taking back the majority in next year s midterms. there were 35 companies who just got letters over the last day or so asking them to preserve records for certain individuals who may have had a role in the january 6th insurrection. and we have learned from our reporting, jake, that some of those individuals include republican members of congress, people who spoke at that so-called stop the steal rally that preceded the deadly riot on january 6th. and mccarthy moving forward here, jake, has prompted some concerns from ethics experts who say they could run afoul of ....
Becomes whether or not somebody wants to force the issue if any don t want to observe. remember from comey s standpoint he still has toware about his ethical obligation. there is not only privilege but as a lawyer he does not want to run afoul of ethics rules by violating a privilege that s been asserted. not up like an attorney/client privilege. the holder of the privilege in the attorney/client situation is the client. the attorney can t just which willy nily waive it appear that s the basically the same situation you have here. the client meaning trump as the executive and he is asserting the privilege. professor, the fact that the president already tweeted and given interviews talking about his conversation was comey from hiss perspective does that play into this at all. it plays in a great deal. because this is a qualified privilege the president has to state usually in the form of a memo to the committee the basis for the executive privilege, that becomes part of the evidence ....
Was acting as a lawyer for the government and former fbi director james comey was not, right? right. except, the thing is, remember, james comey is still a lawyer even though he was serving in a law enforcement capacity. and in the case of sally yates, they surgery asserted the executive privilege and she complied with it. so it s not a situation where they would need to go in and get a restraining order in some district court. i think it s highly unlikely that would ever happen. i think what is more likely that they would telegraph or be explicit as to what areas they believe are executive privilege, either by letter or in a phone call. my guess is by letter. and then the question becomes whether or not somebody wants to force the issue if they don t want to observe. remember, from comey s standpoint, he still has to worry about his ethical obligation. there s not only privilege but as a lawyer, he does not want to run afoul of ethics rules by ....