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Executive privilege to cover up wrong doing, he will push back. >> it's fundamental law that executive privilege cannot hide misconduct. you cannot use the executive privilege to hide misconduct by the president. whatever evidence was given to the special prosecutor, any claim of executive privilege is waived by the act of giving it to an investigator. >> reporter: the house democrats to investigate going forward depending on what bob mueller finds, doesn't find will essentially inform all of these house democratic investigation over the next several months. at the moment the next fight they e...

Executive privilege over many people who had administrative positions. the white house has not responded to the congressional request. last night on anderson cooper chairman nadler said that the wrongdoing -- i'm sorry, that executive privilege is not a shield for wrongdoing. >> it is fundamental law that executive privilege cannot hide misconduct. you cannot use the executive privilege to hide misconduct by the president or anybody around him. in the nixon case which was very dispositive on that point. >> nadler said they received substantial responses from a large number of people. of the 81...

White house tries to exert executive privilege too, cov up wrong doing, he says they are not on firm legal ground. >> it's fundamental law that executive privilege cannot hide misconduct. you cannot use the executive privilege to hide misconduct by the president or anyone around him. in the nixon case was dispositive on that point. >> so the one point that nadler has been making is that the mueller report will essentially provide a road map for his committee to investigate further about their investigation to obstruction of justice, potential abuse of the white house. depending on how much inf...

There is a pattern of i want to do the right thing but my lawyers say i can't. going back to the sit-down with mueller, the tax returns. this will fall into that category. a week ago the president said there should be no mueller report. his attorneys made it clear they intend to review it for executive privilege and assert it which could lead us to the courtesy. the president is the boss of the attorneys. i hear you, but this is what we are doing. he'll hide. >> we heard jerry nadler now saying the executive privilege cannot hide misconduct. it sure can drag things out, can't it? >> yes, absol...

Issue in much of the investigation. and that should be public. and it's fundamental law that executive privilege cannot hide misconduct. you cannot use the executive privilege to hide misconduct by the president or by anybody around him. in the nixon case, which was decided 9-0 by the supreme court was very dispositive on that point. in addition to which -- >> that was a case about whether or not to release the tapes. >> to release the tapes, for which the president claimed executive privilege. and the court said "no." because you cannot use executive privilege to hide misconduct of any sort. ...