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Nothing back. new this hour, a potential battle brewing over executive privilege as the attorney general is expected to release the top findings from that mueller report any moment now. the chair of the judiciary committee where impeachment proceedings start warning the white house not to try to prevent parts of the mueller report from being released. >> i do not believe it exists here at all because as we learned from the nixon tapes case, executive privilege cannot hide or be used to hide wrongdoing and in that case, the supreme court 9-0 ordered that all the claims of executive privilege be...

Privilege as the attorney general is expected to rerees the finding from the mueller report any time now. impeachment ro menment processe congress and warning about releasing this. >> i don't do not believe it existing here as all because as we learned from the nixon tape case executive privilege cannot be used to hide wrongdoing. in that case the supreme court 9-0 ordered that all of the claims of executive privilege be overridden. the president may try to assert it, hide things behind it but i don't think it's right or be successful. i asked david cicilline whether the white house should b...

Comes to the firing of james comey but they again, insist that the president did not obstruct justice, had the article 2 power in order to fire someone like the fbi director. we're waiting for that to play out. the president's personal lawyers do not expect any sneak peak and remember, some of the lawyers with the president this weekend, his white house counsel and his white house special counsel who are those on the front lines of interfacing with the investigation, they represent the office of the president, not the president personally. alex? >> important distinction. okay. kelly o'donnell,...

Get a sneak peek meaning the president will get an early look? >> i just don't know. your question, is it possible? it's possible. we're in uncharted waters here. normally speaking we don't have these special counsel investigations. we don't have the justice department investigating the president. there is -- if the president, if the white house counsel, says to barr, look, if there's anything about the president's discussion, we want to see it to see if we can assert executive privilege, that may be a request that they'll make and we'll see whether barr would honor that. there could be a case...

Executive privilege on some of this and the fact is, he has no right to claim executive privilege on any evidence of wrongdoing, executive privilege cannot shield evidence of wrongdoing. >> new concerns from ju didicia chair nadler as questions emerge whether the president, his team or attorney general barr will work to bury criminality in mueller's row poeport. joining me now we have melissa murray with us and former federal prosecutor and legal analyst glen kurshner. lawyers at the white house say they don't expect to see the report before it reaches congress but if they try to claim executi...