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This committee. we still had 99% of her records. and on friday we learned that president trump is claiming executive privilege over an additional 102,000 pajsz of your records. such a blanket assertion of executive privilege is simply unheard of in the history of this country and the reason its unheard of is because its so outrageous. the last time a president tempted to hide his supreme court nominee's records by invoking executive privilege was when president reagan did this for justice william ren quist but then republicans and democrats came together, we demanded the documents be released ...

Th not by this committee. and sixth, on friday we learn that president trump is claiming executive privilege over an additional 102,000 pages of your records. such a blanket assertion is simply unheard of in the history of this country and the reason it's unheard of is because it is so outrageous. the last time a president attempted to hide a supreme court nominee's record by invoking executive privilege was when president reagan did this for justice william rehnquist. then republicans and democrats came together. we demanded the documents be releas released. and president reagan said okay and...

Answer about what jared kushner did or this answer here in the run- run-up, at that point does this then -- does it make it that much harder for the president's team to fight this subpoena? >> it makes it harder, but in these situations, in these executive privilege claims and counterclaims, there are no blanket assertions. the president can't make a blanket assertion, and mueller can't say -- can't make a blanket assertion and say we demand -- we need all of this just because we're running a criminal investigation. so he needs to say in each instance, this is why i need to find out about the ...

Much too vocally, taking a position on things that he can't possibly have clear knowledge of at this stage of the representation. any lawyer cosming into a case like this would keep his head down for a period of time and make sure he had the facts in line. and this attorney is not doing that. so i'd have to say no, he is not helping his client at all. >> and laura, as for the russia investigation, a big question in all of this is will the president take the fifth amendment? here is rudy giuliani on that. >> are you confident the president will not take the fifth in this case? >> how can i ever...

The abuse took place during a sexual encounter. schneiderman apparently slapped someone during an argument. >> it's very odd that he would parse it out this t way he did, that he had never engaged in nonconsensual sex. that's the line he would not cross. but apparently assault is not one in which he would vehemently deny the allegation. he would simply say he vehemently contests the allegations. maybe he has his eyes towards a defamation case or perhaps other things about calling somebody a liar or their actual statements to be untruthful. but what says to me is he has legal counsel, and he hi...